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Danish composer Herman Koppel (1908-98) had a long and distinguished career as composer, pianist, and teacher, as well as patriarch of a musical dynasty that
Peter Heise (1830-79) was born in Denmark and was intended by his family to become a lawyer, but after graduating with high marks he chose
Vagn Holmboe’s 10 Preludes for Sinfonietta, five of which are presented here, were composed between 1986 and 1991 and dedicated to the British music critic
Ludolf Nielsen’s compositional style took a quantum leap forward from his first symphony (on a previous da capo release) to his third (1911-13). What was
Indra Rise, born in 1961, is a Latvian-born composer who lives and works in Denmark. The five works included in this collection reveal a composer
Some composers really appear to know exactly what they’re doing, and Poul Schierbeck (1888-1948) is certainly one of these. A private student of Nielsen, his
Danish composer Paul von Klenau spent most of his career in Germany, where he was (among other things) a noted conductor, pupil of Max von
Denmark’s King Frederik IX (1899-1971) was an accomplished amateur musician and self-taught conductor who frequently led the Royal Danish Orchestra or the Danish National Radio
Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was a late romantic composer who never was able to gain acceptance in his native Denmark. His visionary, metaphysical, and symbolist compositions
This final volume in dacapo’s four-disc survey of the complete Holmboe chamber concertos completes a musical odyssey of the highest value, not just for the
