Anders Koppel (born 17 July 1947 in

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) is a co-founder in 1967 of the rock group

Savage Rose The Savage Rose is a Danish psychedelic rock group, formed in 1967. Career The band was founded in 1967 by Thomas Koppel, Anders Koppel, Alex Riel, Jens Rugsted, Flemming Ostermann, and singer Annisette Koppel. Ilse Marie Koppel was also pa ...

. From 1976 to 2012 he was a member of the trio

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. He plays in the trio Koppel-Andersen-Koppel which includes his son, saxophone player Benjamin Koppel, founder of the record label Cowbell and former music director of

Jazzhus Montmartre Jazzhus Montmartre is a jazz club in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many jazz musicians, including Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, and Chet Baker, have performed there. It is sometimes called Cafe Montmartre. The Montmartre was located first in Dahlerupsgade, then ...

. Anders Koppel has twice received the Danish film award

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for best film score (1994 and 1996). His first daughter Sara Koppel is an animator and artist, and the second daughter Marie Carmen Koppel is a gospel, soul, and jazz singer. Koppel has composed music for eight

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s for the New Danish Dance Theatre and music for more than 150 movies, 50 theatrical plays and three musicals. He has also composed more than 90 works for classical ensembles, chamber music and 20 concertos, among them two saxophone concertos and four marimba concertos. He played the

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as a child with his father, composer Herman D. Koppel, and later

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with several television and concert appearances. He began playing the

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in 1966.

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* 1947 births Living people Danish composers Jewish Danish musicians Male composers Danish rock musicians Musicians from Copenhagen Olufsen Records artists {{denmark-composer-stub