Denmark

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707) wrote music for the organ. Niels W. Gade (1817–1890) wrote eight symphonies and the cantata Elverskud, and Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) six symphonies and the opera Maskarade of 1906, regarded as the Danish national opera. The Royal Danish Theatre became a permanent venue in 1748 and the Royal Danish Orchestra was permanently attached to it in 1770; the Copenhagen Opera House opened in 2005. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1925, is the orchestra of the broadcaster DR.