Irene Georgia Skovgaard (December 2, 1902 - March 12, 1982) was a Danish[1] writer, composer,[2] and music educator who specialized in recorder music and canons, and belonged to the Skovgaard family of artists.[3][4][5]
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.[6]
In 1939, Skovgaard and Werner Wolf Glaser opened a School of Music in Lyngbby, Denmark.[6][7] 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.[8] They include: