Hamerik, Asger (1843–1923)

Danish composer of German descent. He was a pupil of Gade at Copenhagen, and later of Bülow in Berlin for piano and of Berlioz in Paris for orchestration. From 1872 to 1898 he was in the USA as director of the Conservatory of the Peabody Institute at Baltimore.

Works operas Tovelille (1865), Hjalmar og Ingeborg, La vendetta (1870) and Den Rejsende; Requiem, two choral trilogies; eight symphonies, the last for strings, five Northern Suites, and other orchestral works.