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John Frandsen (born 13 March 1956) is a
John Frandsen
2000 *Aarhus Sommer Oper
Profile and list of works at Edition S (publisher)Profile at Dansk Komponist Forening
1956 births People from Aalborg 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Aarhus University alumni Danish classical composers Danish male classical composers Danish classical organists Male classical organists Living people 21st-century organists 20th-century Danish male musicians 21st-century male musicians {{Denmark-composer-stub
John Frandsen (born 13 March 1956) is a Danish
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composer
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, organist
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and choral conductor, whose work includes operas, chamber music, and religious music
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. His 1999 ''Now Flashes the White Light of the Spirit'' commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the establishment
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of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church was performed simultaneously in over 100 Danish churches on the day of the anniversary.
Biography
Frandsen was born inAalborg
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and studied at Aarhus University
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and the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus
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with Hans Abrahamsen and Karl Aage Rasmussen
Karl Aage Rasmussen (born 13 December 1947 in Kolding, Denmark) is a Danish composer and writer.
Composition
Quotation and particularly collage played an important role in his music from the early 1970s, but increasingly he used pre-existing m ...
. From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the music committee of the Danish National Arts Foundation, and since 1999 he has been chairman of the Danish Composers' Association.
His opera trilogy, ''Tugt og Utugt I Mellemtiden'' (''Virtue and Vice in the Meantime''), based on the novel of the same name by Svend Aage Madsen
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* King Svend
* Svend Aagesen (c.1145–?), Danish historian
* Svend Asmussen (1916–2017), Danish jazz violinist known as "The Fiddling Viking"
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premiered in 1998 at the Aarhus Summer Opera. His other operas include ''Amalie'' (premiered 1995 at the Musikteateret Undergrunden in Aarhus), ''Dronning Boudicca'' (''Queen Boudica
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'') (premiered in 1997 at Anden Opera in Copenhagen
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) and ''I-K-O-N'' (premiered in 2002 at the Royal Danish Theatre
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.Aarhus Sommer Opera
Religious music
John Frandsen's commissions for religious music include: *'' Stabat Mater'' fortenor
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and organ, commissioned by the Sorø Organ Festival (1986)
*''Det evige Halleluja'' (''The Eternal Hallelujah'') cantata for soprano
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, contralto
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The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically b ...
, mixed choir, recitation and organ, commissioned by the Amager Music Festival (1992)
*''Talsmand som på jorderige'' (''Advocate as on Earth'') for mixed choir a cappella
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, commissioned by the Dansk Kirkesang (Danish Sacred Song Society)
*''Nu blitzer Åndens hvide lys'' (''Now Flashes the White Light of the Spirit'') ten variations for organ solo with a concluding choral movement, commissioned by the Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church (1999)
*''Messe til det nye Årtusinde'' (''Mass for the New Millennium'') for five soloists, chamber choir, male choir, large choir, brass, chamber orchestra and organ, first performed in Aarhus on 31 December 1999.
Notes and references
Sources
*Nielsen, Svend HvidtfeltJohn Frandsen
2000 *Aarhus Sommer Oper
References
1956 births People from Aalborg 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Aarhus University alumni Danish classical composers Danish male classical composers Danish classical organists Male classical organists Living people 21st-century organists 20th-century Danish male musicians 21st-century male musicians {{Denmark-composer-stub