Joachim Neergaard

Joachim Brunn de Neergaard (27 April 1877 – 31 October 1920)[1] was a Danish composer.

Neergaard was born in Stubberup, a small village in the east-central part of Jutland in 1877.

He came from scions of an aristocratic family with long service to the Danish government and as such was eventually sent to take a law degree which he finished in 1901.

It is written in a post-Brahmsian, late Romantic idiom, a style cultivated at that time by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg (before he started composing 12 tone music), Ernő Dohnányi, Ferruccio Busoni, Zemlinsky, Karl Weigl, and Franz Schmidt.

The melodies are lush and memorable, the movements perfectly executed and the part-writing leaves nothing to be desired."