Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of light orchestral music in the 19th-century Romantic era, born and raised in Randers and Odense before settling in Copenhagen, where he served as music director and composer at Tivoli Gardens from 1843 to 1872. His output consists primarily of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, and galops, many with programmatic elements evoking scenes and events beyond music itself; his best-known work is the Champagne Galop. Details of his death in Copenhagen in 1874 are not well documented.

Known as the Strauss of the North after hearing Johann Strauss I perform in 1839, Lumbye became so beloved in Denmark that Danes came to regard Johann Strauss II as the Lumbye of the South, an unusual reversal of typical cultural influence. His light, dance-based orchestral music helped establish Tivoli Gardens as a center of popular concert life in Copenhagen, and his musical legacy was carried on by his son and grandson, the latter becoming an important Danish conductor.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Lumbye