Irene Skovgaard

Irene Georgia Skovgaard (2 December 1902 - 12 March 1982) was a Danish^[1] writer, composer,^[2] and music educator who specialized in recorder music and canons, and belonged to the Skovgaard family of artists.^[3][4][5]

Skovgaard was one of eight children born to Ingeborg Luplau Møller and the painter Niels Kristian Skovgaard. Her grandfather was Peter Christian Skovgaard, the well-known Danish landscape painter. She studied piano and voice at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, finishing in 1930.^[6]

In 1939, Skovgaard and Werner Wolf Glaser opened a School of Music in Lyngbby, Denmark.^[6][7] Skovgaard collaborated with Glaser, as well as with her brother Hjalte Skovgaard, on several publications (see below).

Skovgaard’s works were published by Imudico and Skandinavisk Musikforlag.^[8] They include:

Book

• Et Kunstnerhjem : Niels Skovgaards Hjem paa Karlsberg ved Hillerød (An Artist's Home: Niels Skovgaard's Home on Karlsberg near Hillerød)^[8]

Music

• 150 Newer Canons^[8]
• 150 Older Canons^[9]
• Blokflojteskole (Recorder Method)^[10]
• Blokfløjteskole : Tillæg (Recorder Method Supplement)^[8]
• Fuglene synger : 20 Kanon'er (The Birds Sing: 20 Canons; with Werner Wolf Glaser and Hjalte Skovgaard; text by Irene Skovgaard)^[8]
• Tolv Juleviser (Twelve Christmas Poems; collected and translated by Irene Skovgaard edited by Werner Wolf Glaser)^[11]
• “Uret Siger Tiketakke” (The Clock Says Tick Tock)^[8]