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Place of Birth: Lynge, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Johanne Fenger
- Johanne Fenger (September 5, 1836 – August 11, 1913) was a Danish composer.
- Belonging to a family with many priests, doctors and officials, she was the daughter of the priest Johannes Ferdinand Fenger. Johanne Fenger never had permanent employment.
- Instead she lived together with her family her whole life, at first with her parents and later with other relatives.
- Her father was acquainted with B.
- S.
- Ingemann.
- She and her father performed for him with songs from other countries, which they recommended that he should translate to Danish. Her father was given a new parish in Høje Tåstrup which meant that she was able to travel to Copenhagen by train to receive piano, singing and composition lessons from Leopold Rosenfeld and Edvard Helsted.
- Her relative, the composer Christian Barnekow, was president of the Society for publication of Danish music.After her parents' death, Johanne Fenger lived with her uncle Carl Emil Fenger, a doctor and politician.
- She probably tutored his children but taught choir, song and piano.
- During this time she was victim to a stroke and became partially blind and started suffering from delusions.
- Between 1885 and 1896 she was treated at a psychiatric hospital.
- Later her sister Sofie took her home and eventually she became able to play music again.
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