Axel Borup-Jørgensen
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Axel Borup-Jørgensen is a Danish
composer
.
Axel Borup-Jørgensen is born in Hjørring
in Denmark, but grew up in Sweden. He studied piano as a major at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium and instrumentation with Poul Schierbeck
and Jørgen Jersild
.
He was one of the first Danish composers to go to the Darmstadt School
, but he never composed serial music. Axel Borup-Jørgensen's list of works is long and includes music for orchestra, chamber music, songs with piano and other instruments. Among his works is op. 51 Nordisk Sommerpastorale, which won a composition competition arranged by DR (Danish Radio) in 1965 and the large work for orchestra, Marin, which includes 44 individual string lines, and is regarded as a masterpiece.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
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Axel Borup-Jørgensen is born in Hjørring
Hjørring
Hjørring Municipality is a municipality in North Denmark Region on the west coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 929,58 km², making it the largest in Vendsyssel, and it has a total population of 67,121...
in Denmark, but grew up in Sweden. He studied piano as a major at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium and instrumentation with Poul Schierbeck
Poul Schierbeck
Poul Schierbeck was a Danish composer and organist. He was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and Thomas Laub. From 1931 he taught composition and instrumentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Music....
and Jørgen Jersild
Jørgen Jersild
Jørgen Jersild was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
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He was one of the first Danish composers to go to the Darmstadt School
Darmstadt School
Darmstadt School refers to a loose group of compositional styles created by composers who attended the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music from the early 1950s to the early 1960s.-History:...
, but he never composed serial music. Axel Borup-Jørgensen's list of works is long and includes music for orchestra, chamber music, songs with piano and other instruments. Among his works is op. 51 Nordisk Sommerpastorale, which won a composition competition arranged by DR (Danish Radio) in 1965 and the large work for orchestra, Marin, which includes 44 individual string lines, and is regarded as a masterpiece.