{{Short description|Danish music teacher, music director, organist and composer}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2025}} thumb|right|Georg Carl Bohlmann'''Georg Carl Bohlmann '''(1838 – 1920) was a Danish music teacher, music director, organist and composer. He composed a number of major and minor compositions, including two symphonies, and several overtures. He also arranged music for other artists.

== Biography == Bohlman was born on 8 April 1838,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Biografier |url=https://www.danskmilitaermusik.dk/biografier.htm |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=www.danskmilitaermusik.dk}}</ref> the son of tobacco manufacturer Reinhard Georg Carl Bohlmann. Bohlmann studied with Charles Kjerulf,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keiser |first=Annette |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Kj%C3%B8venhavner_%CC%81n/-f_bDwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=%22Georg+Carl+Bohlmann%22&pg=PA199&printsec=frontcover |title=Kjøvenhavner ́n: - fortællinger fra dengang |date=2020-05-27 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-87-430-1550-5 |pages=199 |language=da}}</ref> likely at the Mariboes School.

Bohlmann lived in Bremen from 1851–1859 and trained as a musician under conductor Carl Heinemann. He returned to Copenhagen, where he worked as a music teacher and arranger and a music theater director.

In 1865, he received the Anckerske scholarship and considered using it to studied in Rome.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sørensen |first=Inger |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/J_P_E_Hartmann_og_hans_kreds_1780_1859/LNKeR5K3EGIC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=%22Georg+Carl+Bohlmann%22&pg=PA832&printsec=frontcover |title=J.P.E. Hartmann og hans kreds: 1780-1859 |date=1999 |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |isbn=978-87-7289-515-4 |pages=831 |language=da}}</ref>

From 1872 to 1876, Bohlmann was an organist in Svendborg.<ref name=":0" /> He moved back to Copenhagen and resumed his previous activities, in particular as a teacher of music theory and instrumentation. He also worked as the music director at the Odense Theater,{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}} the Hotel Marienlyst,<ref name=":0" /> and the Dagmar Theater (''Dagmar Teatret'').<ref name=":0" />

Bohlmann worked on musical arrangement for other artists and also composed a number of major and minor compositions, including two symphonies, several overtures, and concert pieces for violin and other instruments. In 1886, the piece ''Brudefølget drar forbi (The Bridal Procession Passes By), Opus 19, No. 2'', which was arranged by Bohlmann for the orchestra, was first played in Copenhagen.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fog |first=Dan |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Edvard_Grieg_1843_1907/gCMKAQAAMAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Georg+Carl+Bohlmann%22&dq=%22Georg+Carl+Bohlmann%22&printsec=frontcover |title=Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis |last2=Grinde |first2=Kirsti |last3=Norheim |first3=Øyvind |date=2008 |publisher=Henry Litolff's Verlag/C.F. Peters |isbn=978-3-87626-990-0 |pages=112 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Andersen |first=Rune |date=28 Sep 2011 |title=An "authentic" Peer Gynt music?: A source critical study of Edvard Grieg's Opus 23 - Some aspects |url=https://www.hf.uio.no/imv/forskning/prosjekter/norgesmusikk/bulletin/nummer4/ |access-date=9 July 2025 |website=Department of Musicology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo |quote=At the production in Copenhagen in 1886 as many as six pieces [by Peer Gynt] were left out... Not only were pieces left out..., but pieces not originally composed for Peer Gynt were also used. The Bridal Procession, Op. 19, no. 2 orchestrated by Georg Bohlmann, and three of the Norwegian Dances, op. 35, orchestrated by Robert Henriques, were used in the first act. |trans-quote=}}</ref> His own ''Vikingefærd'' (''Viking Expedition'') was also performed at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

Beginning in 1887, Bohlmann received an annual grant from the state. He also received a grant from the Raben-Lewetzauske Fund for the publication of instrumentation illustrations. From 1892 until his death, he was an organist at the Vestre Kirkegaards Chapel in Copenhagen.<ref name=":0" />

Bohlmann died in 1920; he was 82.<ref name=":0" />

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