Weyse spiller klaver for en ung dame, som sidder i en stol ved siden af musikeren.

Photo: Carl Christian Frederik Jacob Thomsen

C.E.F. Weyse 250 years

We have looked in the collections on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Danish composer C.E.F. Weyse.

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is particularly known for his melodies for B.S. Ingemann's morning and evening songs, several of which have retained their popularity to this day. But he composed in many different musical genres: opera, singspiel, cantatas for ministrations and other choral music as well as symphonies. In addition, Weyse was a distinctive and interesting personality, which is not least expressed in his many and often long letters, where his well-developed sense of humor also emerges. 

Weyse did not make many long journeys – in fact, by all accounts, he did not leave Sjælland after coming there as a young man. His most frequent destinations must have been the numerous visits he paid in Roskilde to his close friends in the priest family Hertz. Weyse felt at home there, and he had also chosen to be buried in Roskilde, where the beautiful tombstone can be seen at Gråbrødre Cemetery.