Telegraph Galop

The Telegraph Galop (Danish_ Telegrafgalopen) is a musical composition by the Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874) .

Telegraph Galop
by Hans Christian Lumbye
English	Telegraph Galop
Native name	Telegraph-Galop
Genre	Orchestral music
Performed	11 June 1844 (1844-06-11): Tivoli, Copenhagen
Published	1844 (1844):

It is one of Hans Christian Lumbye's best known and popular works, and together with Lumbye's Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop and Champagne Galop, it was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon as a masterpiece of Danish classical music.^[1]

History

The Telegraph Gallop premiered in Tivoli’s Concert Hall on 11 June 1844. It is dedicated, on the printed piano edition of the work, to Tivoli-founder ]Georg Carstensen "with the utmost respect”. The gallop soon became one of Lumbye’s most popular works.^[2]