the night before christmas eve 2018 slept the skipper and adventurer Troels Kløvedal after a prolonged illness.
First, a little over a year after bisættelsen of the Gardiner is the stone on his grave at Holmens Kirkegaard in Copenhagen’s Østerbro come up. And it is a very specific reason for telling his son Mikkel Beha Erichsen for Extra Magazine.
– It has taken some time to find the right stone, which is granite from the Danish island of Bornholm. So it has been a long time coming, he says.
Troels Kløvedals tombstone is now in place on the grave. Photo: Aleksander Klug
It is a very personal gravestones, the popular skipper has scored. Both palmer and Kløvedals ship, Nordkaperen, is depicted on the stone in the form of a relief, as some might know.
– the Subject is derived from the stamp, Troels used in all of his books, says Mikkel Beha Erichsen.
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He says, that the ram comes from one of Kløvedals countless travel. Where exactly, he remembereth not.
– It was simply cut off in the hand of a man on a street corner. The piston has then followed him since, says Mikkel Beha Erichsen.
Troels Kløvedal was like 3. January 2019. Photo: Jonas Olufson
It is dekorationsmaleren Susan Arnild, who, together with a stonemason has made the stone. Arnild is married to tv-the man Erik Peitersen and was a neighbor and close friend of john eliot Gardiner.
– I think that it has been skideflot, says Mikkel Beha on his father’s tombstone.
– It is nice that the stone finally. It is as if that man knows that he keeps to that, ” says the tv host.
the Family has not kept any sort of assembly or ceremony in connection with the long-awaited stone finally stands in its place.
– But we have been there all along to see it, ” said Mikkel Beha Erichsen.
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john eliot Gardiner fought in the years leading up to his death a long and unequal battle against the disease ALS, which slowly paralyzes the body. He was also affected by the chronic lung disease bronkiektasi.
Gardiner was 75 years and slept at his farm on Djursland peninsula, surrounded by his closest family.
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It is a very personal tombstone with a stamp, derived from one of Troels Kløvedals many journeys. Photo: Aleksander Klug
