Edvard Helsted

Danish composer

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Edvard (or Eduard) Mads Ebbe Helsted (8 December 1816 – 1 March 1900) was a Danish composer. He is the brother of composer Carl Helsted.

Biography

Edvard Helsted was born in Copenhagen and trained as a violinist. He worked in the Royal Chapel from 1838 to 1869, first as an orchestra member and then after 1863 as concert master. He resigned in 1869 for health reasons.^[1]

With Holger Simon Paulli, Helsted wrote Acts I and III of August Bournonville's ballet Napoli (1842). Later, he and Paulli would collaborate on another Bournonville ballet and one of his most popular, the 1858 Blomsterfesten i Genzano (Flower Festival in Genzano).^[2] Other ballet scores by Helsted are Toreadoran (1840) and Kirsten Piil (1845).

Helsted died in Fredensborg. He is buried in Asminderød Cemetery.

References

^ Helsted, Edvard Mads Ebbe. Dansk biografisk leksikon. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^ Studwell, William E.; Schueneman, Bruce R (14 July 1997). Minor Ballet Composers: Biographical Sketches of Sixty-Six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of Western Ballet Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 48. ISBN 9781136770289. Retrieved 15 February 2023.