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Jacob Christian Fabricius

Danish councilor, musician, composer and music organizer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ4994565 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jacob Christian Fabricius (3 September 1840, Aarhus – 8 June 1919, Copenhagen) was a Danish councilor, musician, composer and music organizer. Fabricius founded numerous musical societies and institutions during his lifetime. One of the most popular of such societies was Samfund til Udgivelse af dansk musik (Society for the Publication of Danish Music), founded in 1871. His career as a composer centered to a large extent on songs, choir and piano works. His works found success in Germany and France.

See also

List of Danish composers

References

This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jacob Christian Fabricius” as danish councilor, musician, composer and music organizer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1840, 1919, 1871—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1840-09-03. The account is most persuasive where Jacob, Christian and Fabricius can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as danish councilor, musician, composer and music organizer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4994565. VIAF identifies the subject as 145148995736659750074. The Library of Congress control number is no91015119. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1840, 1919 and 1871.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jacob Christian Fabricius” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.