US EditionRIP to New Music's Gentle, Smiley Radical
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The Danish composer Per Nørgård is dead.
RIP to new music's gentle, smiley radical
Danish composer Per Norgard – whose death at the age of 92 was announced this morning – was a towering presence in European new music, and the shine-bright timbres and heady narrative drive of his eight symphonies posed crucial questions about what it meant to be a symphonist during the late 20th century. In 2000
Composer Per Nørgård has died at the age of 92. His music publisher Edition Wilhelm Hansen wrote this in a press release.
Danish composer Per Noergord has died at the age of 92. The news of his death was announced to the Danish media by his family and his record label.
He has composed hundreds of works, including several symphonies and operas. In his native Denmark, Per Nørgård is called the greatest composer since Carl Nielsen. Now he has died.
The Danish godfather of classical music has passed away peacefully. He is behind hundreds of classical compositions.
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