Per Nørgård

Per Nørgård (b. 1932) studied composition with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His catalogue comprises opera, ballets, symphonies, concerti and an enormous number of chamber and solo instrumental works. First influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, CarlNielsen and Vagn Holmboe,Nørdgår later began to explore the modernist techniques of central Europe, eventually developing a serial compositional system based on the “infinity series”. He has also composed music…

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Per Nørgård (b. 1932) studied composition with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His catalogue comprises opera, ballets, symphonies, concerti and an enormous number of chamber and solo instrumental works. First influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, CarlNielsen and Vagn Holmboe,Nørdgår later began to explore the modernist techniques of central Europe, eventually developing a serial compositional system based on the “infinity series”. He has also composed music for several films, notably The Red Cloak (1966), Babette’s Feast (1987) and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1993). He is the recipient of the Lilie Boulanger-Award, the Nordic Council Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Sibelius Prize to name a few. June 2012