Career
The father was given a new parish in Høje Tåstrup which meant that she was able to travel to Copenhagen with train to receive piano, singing and composition lessons from Leopold Rosenfeld and Edvard Helsted. However her relative (the composer Christian Barnekow) who was president of the Society for publication of Danish music During this time she was a victim to a stroke and became partially blind and started suffering from delusions, between 1885 and 1896 she was treated at a psychiatric hospital.
Later the sister Sofie took her home and eventually she became able to play music again.