Irene Skovgaard
Irene Georgia Skovgaard (December 2, 1902 - March 12, 1982) was a Danish writer, composer, and music educator who specialized in recorder music and canons, and belonged to the Skovgaard family of artists.

Skovgaard was one of eight children born to Ingeborg Luplau Møller and the painter Niels Kristian Skovgaard. Her grandfather was Peter Christian Skovgaard, the well-known Danish landscape painter. She studied piano and voice at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, finishing in 1930.

In 1939, Skovgaard and Werner Wolf Glaser opened a School of Music in Lyngbby, Denmark. Skovgaard collaborated with Glaser, as well as with her brother Hjalte Skovgaard, on several publications (see below).

Skovgaard’s works were published by Imudico and Skandinavisk Musikforlag. They include:

Book 

Et Kunstnerhjem : Niels Skovgaards Hjem paa Karlsberg ved Hillerød (An Artist's Home: Niels Skovgaard's Home on Karlsberg near Hillerød)

Music 

150 Newer Canons
150 Older Canons
Blokflojteskole (Recorder Method)
Blokfløjteskole : Tillæg (Recorder Method Supplement)
Fuglene synger : 20 Kanon'er (The Birds Sing: 20 Canons; with Werner Wolf Glaser and Hjalte Skovgaard; text by Irene Skovgaard)
Tolv Juleviser (Twelve Christmas Poems; collected and translated by Irene Skovgaard edited by Werner Wolf Glaser)
“Uret Siger Tiketakke” (The Clock Says Tick Tock)

References 

Danish composers
Danish women composers
Danish writers
Danish women writers
1902 births
1982 deaths
Danish music educators
Danish women music educators
Royal Danish Academy of Music alumni