Mogens Wöldike

Mogens Wöldike (5 July 1897 – 20 October 1988) was a Danish conductor, choirmaster, organist, and scholar known for his interpretation of music from the Baroque and Classical periods, was born and died in Copenhagen.

His son-in-law was the Haydn scholar Jens Peter Larsen.

He studied under Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub and graduated from Copenhagen University in 1920.

[1] After the war he conducted the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and from 1950 to 1967 worked regularly with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

After a series of mainly baroque records in the 1930s, he recorded Saul, the St Matthew Passion, Mass in time of War, a number of Haydn symphonies, Nielsen concertos and choral works.