Erling D. Bjerno (1929–2019) is a

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composer and organist. He trained as an organist and was for years 1967–1996 employed by Ansgar Church in

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. During the same period he was employed as a teacher at Nordjysk Music. As a composer, he was partly self-taught. He made his debut in 1961 with his ''#1 Symphony''. Besides teaching music, chamber music, choral works and theater, radio and TV music, he has written symphonies, operas, etc. He writes in a traditional style, which has not always been well received by the critics.

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