Irene Skovgaard

Irene Georgia Skovgaard (December 2, 1902 - March 12, 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.

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.

Skovgaard’s works were published by Imudico and Skandinavisk Musikforlag.