Sunday
September 6, 2026
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Subject to change without notice
10:00 am
High mass
Ribe Cathedral
Prelude, postlude: Music by Elfrida Andrée and Rued Langgaard
- August Söderman: Kyrie from Spiritual Songs
- Rued Langgaard: Praise God, all stars of light BVN 300 (1944)
Cast:
- Ribe Chamber Choir and Ribe Youth Choir.
- Conductor: Jonas Hunt
- Birgitte Ebert, organ
Free access
11.15 am
Rued Langgaard's Organ Bench
Ribe Cathedral
Immediately after High Mass, there will be a demonstration of the organ at Ribe Cathedral.
Philip Schmidt-Madsen talks about Rued Langgaard as an organist and demonstrates special effects on the organ at Ribe Cathedral.
Free access
At 12:00 and 13:30
With Rued Langgaards in Sweden
Langgaard Hall
Lectures
From the age of 5 and for the rest of his life, Rued Langgaard spent almost every summer in Sweden.
He often traveled to Arild at Kullen and Kyrkhult in Blekinge, which inspired him to create important works and where he experienced the love of his life.
Lecture by Bendt Viinholt Nielsen
12.00 pm
Langgaard's piano and a legend by Selma Lagerköf III
Café Rued
Concert and reading
In *Två Romanser* , Elfrida Andrée demonstrates her delicate lyrical sensibility. This is followed by the free-spirited music of Rued Langgaard and Ture Rangström, culminating in a passionate piece for violin and piano inspired by Romani folk music.
Reading of The Redneck from Selma Lagerlöf's Christ Legends (1904) by Anette Jensen from LæseSelskabet, Ribe.
Music:
Elifrida Andrée: Two Romances Violin and Piano (1884) (7')
- Larghetto
- Allegro giocoso
Rued Langgaard: Violin Sonata No. 3 BVN 312 (1945-49) (13')
- III Scherzo
- IV
- V Finale. Allegro molto
Ture Rangström: Capriccio amoroso, in modo tzigane (1936) (4')
Cast:
- Benjamin Skydsgaard, piano
- Triinu Piirsalu, violin
At 15.00
Rosengaardsspil
Sct. Catharinæ Church
Concert
Both Rosengaardsspil and String Quartet No. 1 are linked to crucial events in the summer of 1913, when Rued Langgaard lived in the house Rosengaarden in the spa town of Kyrkhult, and when Rued Langgaard and Dora From, the same age, fell in love.
In his String Quartet No. 10 - dedicated to the Nightingale String Quartet - Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen is inspired by some of the "Dora themes" that run like a red thread through Langgaard's music.
Music:
Rued Langgaard: Rosengaardsspil BVN 153 (1918) (25')
- Interior
- Mozart
- Draabefall
- Rococo
Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen: String Quartet No. 10 (2025) (17')
- Simple and emotional
- Hesitant - Lentissimo
- With transparency
- Deciso
- Lontano - Largamente
- Lento
Pause
Rued Langgaard: String Quartet No. 1 BVN 68 (1914-15, 1936) (38')
- Andante ma non troppo
- Allegretto scherzando
- Grave
- Sostenuto
Cast:
Nightingale String Quartet
Day program 2026
Rued Langgard Festival in Ribe, September 3-6 (public early May 2026)
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