page_title: Waagepetersen House
section_title: The Waagepetersen era
hierarchical_section_title: Waagepetersen House / History / The Waagepetersen era
caption_attribution_description: English: usiksoirée hos Waagepetersen (1834). . Danish: "Musikalsk aftenselskab hos vinhandler Christian Waagepetersen i Store Strandstræde i København. Ved klaveret sidder C.E.F. Weyse. Blandt mange andre af periodens kendte skikkelser fra handels- og kulturlivet ses også C.W. Eckersberg. I forsvindingspunktet, som selskabets diskrete hovedperson, sidder den eneste tilstedeværende kvinde, værtinden Albertine Waagepetersen, glorieomstrålet og med et barn på skødet. Maleri af Wilhelm Marstrand "
context_page_description: The Waagepetersen House is a listed Neoclassical town mansion located at Store Strandstræde 18 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The house takes its name after royal wine merchant Christian Waagepetersen who owned it from 1811 to 1840. His home was a meetingplace for many of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age.
context_section_description: The wine merchant Christian Petersen (later Christian Waagepetersen) acquired the building in 1811. He lived there with his large family and also ran his business from the premises. Tenants during his ownership included the physician Frederik Ludvig Bang who lived in the building from 1812 to 1814 and the composer, conductor and violinist Claus Schall  lived in the building from 1822 to 1924
  Waagepetersen had a passion for the arts and his home in Store Strandstræde became a meetingplace for many of the leading figures of the Danish Golden Age in the 1820s and 1830s. He was especially fond of music as witnessed by the fact that he named three of his sons after Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
  The musicians Weyse, Kuhlau and Hartmann were frequent guests and often performed at music soirées. Other guests included the painters Eckersberg and Wilhelm Marstrand.
  Christian Waagepetersen died in 1840. The house in Store Strandstræde was then taken over by Mazart Waagepetersen and his wife Charlotte Caroline Mathilde Waagepetersen. The couple's only child was Gaston Waagepetersen, an adopted son born outside marriage by Alce Tutein. Mazart Waagepetersen purchased the country house Tosendal in Østerbro. Both properties were sold in 1878. The family then lived at Rosenvængets Side Allé 6 in  Østerbro.
caption: A music soirée painted by Wilhelm Marstrand
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