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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (21 November 1932 – 27 June 2016) was a Danish composer.
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (21 November 1932 – 27 June 2016) was a Danish composer.
Biography
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was born inCopenhagen
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, and was the son of the sculptor Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, with Finn Høffding, Svend Westergaard, Bjørn Hjelmborg, and Vagn Holmboe
Vagn Gylding Holmboe (, 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher.
Life
Vagn Holmboe was born in Horsens, Jutland, into a merchant family of dedicated amateur musicians. Both parents played the piano. His fa ...
(instrumentation), graduating in 1958.
Amongst other works, he composed fourteen string quartets and a Concerto Grosso for string quartet and orchestra, written for the Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classic ...
, which he referred to as "Vivaldi on Safari".
He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1980 for his ''Symfoni/Antifoni''.
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen died in Copenhagen of cancer on 26 June 2016.
Sources
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen page on André Chaudron's Contemporary Music site
1932 births 2016 deaths 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Danish classical composers Danish male classical composers Musicians from Copenhagen Royal Danish Academy of Music alumni Pupils of Finn Høffding Pupils of Vagn Holmboe 20th-century Danish male musicians 21st-century male musicians {{Denmark-composer-stub