(Carl) Flemming Weis (15 April 1898 – 30 September 1981) was a
Danish
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People
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composer. He was born in 1898 in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
, Denmark and died in
Hellerup
Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compri ...
, Denmark in 1981.
When studying, he specialized in the organ.
Music
Weis was heavily influenced by teacher
Carl Nielsen
Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he ...
. Starting in 1926 he was a board member of the Danish branch of the
International Society for Contemporary Music
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.
The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the ...
. He also joined the board of the Danish Composers' Society in 1956 and became its chairman in 1967. Weis was also Chairman of the board for the Society for the Publication of Danish Music.
See also
*
List of Danish composers
A list of notable Danish composers:
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* Thorvald Aagaard
*Truid Aagesen
* David Abell
* Hans Abrahamsen
*Aksel Agerby
* Harald Agersnap
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References
*''This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.''
Danish male composers
1898 births
1981 deaths
20th-century Danish composers
20th-century Danish male musicians
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