Viggo Bielefeldt
Bielefeldt circa 1900s
Born	Viggo Emil Bielefeldt (1851-10-16)October 16, 1851 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	December 17, 1909(1909-12-17) (aged 58) Copenhagen, Denmark
Burial place	Hellerup Cemetery
Education	Royal Danish Conservatory of Music
Occupation(s)	composer, singer, cantor and music teacher
Years active	1872—1909
Parent	Heinrich Hellmuth Bielefeldt (father)
Honours	Titular Professor (1900) Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn (1905)

Viggo Emil Bielefeldt (16 October 1851 – 17 December 1909)^[1] was a Danish composer, singer, cantor and music teacher. His father Heinrich Hellmuth Bielefeldt was an immigrant from Mecklenburg, Germany.

Bielefeldt was educated at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music from 1867–1869 in among other things, singing and piano with Carl Helsted and August Winding respectively as teachers. He debuted as a romance singer on 2 March 1872 and was thereafter a well-known and valued singer in this field

In addition, he was a singing teacher at Horneman's music school and from 1883 at the Conservatory of Music. From 1880 he was cantor at Trinitatis Kirke and from 1887 at Holmens Kirke. For a time, shortly after Gade's death^[who?], he was also organist at the same church. In 1900 he was appointed titular professor. In 1892 he became a Knight of the Dannebrog and in 1905 a Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn.

He is buried at Hellerup Kirkegård, with a gravestone made by J. Schannongs Granit-Industri.

• A Honeymoon (mixed choir)
• David's 8th Psalme (male choir, tenor solo and brass instruments – 1883)
• Singing exercises (together with Emil Horneman)
• Melodies for the Book of Psalms for Church and Home - published by V. Bielefeldt (choral book - 1900)
• Mess book
• Masonic Cantata
• Cantata at the centennial celebration for the Battle of the Nest (1901)

• This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.