Background
He was the son of John Thorkildsen Wexsal, a Norwegian farmer"s son who was then the city Jäger of the Danish crown, and who later became manager at a storage space at the Amalienborg Palace, and Jacobine Caroline, née Holm.
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Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall
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A pupil of Bohemian composer František Martin Pecháček and German conductor Louis Spohr, Wexschall was married to the Danish stage actress and mezzo-soprano opera singer Anna Nielsen. Taught on violin, first by his father and later by music professor Peter Mandrup Lem, he was already appearing at concert halls at a very young age. Between 1820 and 1822 he traveled with abroad, where he studied under masters such as Karl Moser in Berlin, Pecháček in Vienna and Spohr in Kassel, and gave concerts, which were well received even in the perfectly pampered violin playing circles in Paris.
Critics called him Wexschall, and reviews like this he kept for the future, perhaps as a small persiflage against Professor Schall, who always ignored him.
Among his students must be mentioned the names of Holger Simon Paulli, Ole Bulletin and Niels Gade.
