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  • Thorvald Aagaard
    Thorvald Aagaard
    Thorvald Aagaard was a Danish composer, organist and college teacher.He wrote the music to several continually popular songs, such as Spurven sidder stum bag Kvist and Jeg ser de bøgelyse Øer...

  • Truid Aagesen
    Truid Aagesen
    Truid Aagesen was a Danish composer and organist in the service of the Danish king.-Biography:Little is known about Aagesen's early life but his musical mentor and spiritual adviser was Jesuit Father Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus with whom he studied music. Aagesen was appointed organist of the...

  • David Abell
    David Abell
    David Abell or Abel Ebel was a Danish-German composer and organist. He worked in the Kantoriet of Christian III....

  • Hans Abrahamsen
    Hans Abrahamsen
    Hans Abrahamsen is a Danish composer.Born in Copenhagen, Abrahamsen first got to know music through playing the French horn at school. He went on to study music theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music...

  • Aksel Agerby
    Aksel Agerby
    Aksel Agerby was a Danish composer, organist, and music administrator. He also operated his own Music Publishing company, which published both his work and those of others.- Work :...

  • Harald Agersnap
    Harald Agersnap
    Harald Søltoft Agersnap was a Danish composer, conductor, cellist, and pianist. He studied with Otto Malling and Carl Nielsen, as well as with his father, Hans Agersnap....

  • Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen
    Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen
    Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen was a Danish singing teacher, conductor and composer. He was the brother of musician Robert William Otto Allen....

  • Robert William Otto Allen
    Robert William Otto Allen
    Robert William Otto Allen was a Danish pianist, composer and conductor. He was the brother of conductor Georg Frederik Ferdinand Allen....

  • Arthur Ivan Allin
    Arthur Ivan Allin
    Arthur Ivan Allin was a Danish violinist, organist, conductor and composer.Arthur Allin has never specialized himself as a musician...

  • Birgitte Alsted
    Birgitte Alsted
    Birgitte Alsted is a Danish violinist, teacher and composer, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in Warsaw....

  • Herman Amberg
    Herman Amberg
    Herman Amberg was a Danish musician and composer.A pupil of J.P.E. Hartmann and Anton Ree, in 1855 he set up in Viborg as music teacher and also worked as a singing teacher at the Latin School for 25 years...

  • Johan Amberg
    Johan Amberg
    Johan Lauritz Walbom Amberg was a Danish composer and violinist.He started studying singing at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1867, but he had to switch to violin because of problems with his voice. From 1877 to 1905, he was violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra and after 1905, he...

  • Aksel Andersen
    Aksel Andersen
    Hans Aksel Andersen was a Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist.Born in Ruskin, Nebraska he moved to Denmark and as a boy already played the organ, violin and piano. He was a pupil in Varde under Svend-Ove Møller. As a 12-year-old he replaced him as organist. He...

  • Arvid Andersen
    Arvid Andersen
    Arvid Andersen was a Danish violinist, conductor, and composer. He was the son of the writer Olaf Andersen, and composed, among other things, a concerto for his own instrument and a Capriccio for piano.-References:...

  • Benny Andersen
    Benny Andersen
    Benny Andersen , is a Danish song-writer, poet, author, composer and pianist. He is the most widely read, most often sung and best loved of modern Danish lyricists, often associated with his collaboration with Povl Dissing. His collected poems have sold over 100,000 copies...

  • Daniel Andersen
    Daniel Andersen
    Daniel Andersen was a Danish composer, sculptor, and ceramist. He studied music in Vienna; among his compositions are a handful of religious works and an opera, Madonnas Ansigt.-References:...

  • Eyvin Andersen
    Eyvin Andersen
    Eyvin Andersen was a Danish organist, violinist, and composer. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.-References:...

  • Hakon Andersen
    Hakon Andersen
    Jens Hakon Johannes Andersen was a Danish organist and composer. He served as organist for a number of churches around Copenhagen throughout his career.-References:...

  • Joachim Andersen
    Joachim Andersen
    Carl Joachim Andersen was a Danish flutist, conductor and composer born in Copenhagen, son of the flutist Christian Joachim Andersen. Both as a virtuoso and as composer of flute music, he is considered one of the best of his time...

  • Johannes Andersen
    Johannes Andersen (musician)
    Johannes Andersen was a Danish hornist and composer. He wrote a number of pieces for orchestra, as well as a handful of chamber works.-References:...

  • Fritz Andersen
    Fritz Andersen
    Johannes Fritz Emanuel Andersen was a Danish organist and composer. He was the father of critic Sophus Andersen.-References:...

  • Kai Normann Andersen
    Kai Normann Andersen
    Kai Normann Andersen was a Danish composer and film score composer.In the 1930s he contributed prolifically to the score of films directed by George Schnéevoigt including Præsten i Vejlby , Hotel Paradis - 1931, Skal vi vædde en million? - 1932, Kirke og orgel - 1932, Odds 777 - 1932, De blaa...

  • Sophus Andersen
    Sophus Andersen
    Sophus Andersen was a Danish composer and music critic. He was the son of composer Fritz Andersen, and studied both piano and violin in his youth.-References:...

  • Lotte Anker
    Lotte Anker
    Lotte Anker is a Danish jazz saxophonist, and composer. With pianist Marilyn Crispell, she serves as one of the co-leaders of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble.-Life:She has studied music at the Copenhagen University from 1980-84....


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  • Erik Bach
    Erik Bach
    Erik Bach is a Danish composer and writer on music. He took his diploma in music theory and music history from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. As a composer, he claims the influence of Peter Maxwell Davies and other postmodernists....

  • Kasper Bai
    Kasper Bai
    Kasper Bai is a Danish songwriter, composer, arranger and guitarist. He was born in Hjørring, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and now lives and works in Copenhagen. He is known for his Jazz/Classical crossover orchestral pieces and his modern use of the Danish "Vise" form...

  • Frans Bak
    Frans Bak
    Frans Bak is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and is known for his work as a jazz performer. In 1994, he founded a composer's association Den 3. Vej....

  • Carl Christian Nicolaj Balle
    Carl Christian Nicolaj Balle
    Carl Christian Nicolaj Balle was a Danish composer and editor of church music; he is noted for his Christmas compositions.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Harald Balslev
    Harald Balslev
    Harald Balslev cand.theol. was a Danish writer and composer. Much of his musical output is liturgical in nature.-References:...

  • Emilius Bangert
    Emilius Bangert
    Emilius Bangert was a Danish composer and professor.-Biography:Emilius Ferdinand Caspar Bangert was born in Copenhagen, the son of Conrad Bangert and Ida Anderson. In 1902, he graduated from Borgerdydskolen , Copenhagen’s most prestigious private school. He acquired a cand. phil. degree in 1903...

  • Christian Barnekow
    Christian Barnekow
    Christian Barnekow was a Danish composer.-External links:* Soundbites and discussion of work....

  • Sigurd Barrett
    Sigurd Barrett
    Sigurd Barrett is a Danish pianist, entertainer, composer, and writer. As a musician he operates in many genres and he is popular with different age-groups.-Biography:...

  • Christian Frederik Barth
    Christian Frederik Barth
    Christian Frederik Barth was a Danish virtuoso oboist and composer.Barth was an oboist in the Royal Chapel from 1802 to 1841. He was the son of oboist Christian Samuel Barth and brother of oboist and composer Frederik Philip Carl August Barth...

  • Frederik Philip Carl August Barth
    Frederik Philip Carl August Barth
    Frederik Philip Carl August Barth was a German- Danish virtuoso oboist and composer.He was son of oboist Christian Samuel Barth and brother of oboist and composer Christian Frederik Barth....

  • Wilhelm Herman Barth
    Wilhelm Herman Barth
    Wilhelm Herman Barth was a Danish musician, composer and music theorist.He was born in Copenhagen, the son of carpenter Friderich Wilhelm Barth and Eleonora Elisabeth, née Schultz...

  • Johan Bartholdy
    Johan Bartholdy
    Conrad Johan Bartholdy was a Danish Danish organist, composer, singing teacher, conductor and author of music theory books. He was a Titular Professor in 1900....

  • Rudolph Bay
    Rudolph Bay
    David Rudolph Vilhelm Bay was a Danish composer, singer and violinist.He was student in 1808 and studied theology, but from 1816 to 1831, a secretary in the consulate in Algiers. During his stay in Algiers, he composed the melody Vift stolt paa Kodans Bølge which is the best known of his songs...

  • Julius Bechgaard
    Julius Bechgaard
    Julius Andreas Bechgaard was a Danish composer of piano pieces, songs, and operas. His best known opera 'Frode" shows the influence of Wagner....

  • Victor Bendix
    Victor Bendix
    Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade....

  • Aske Bentzon
  • Jørgen Bentzon
    Jørgen Bentzon
    Jørgen Bentzon was a Danish composer, father of Danish composer Niels Viggo Bentzon and flautist . He was a student of Carl Nielsen from 1915 until 1919....

  • Niels Viggo Bentzon
    Niels Viggo Bentzon
    Niels Viggo Bentzon was a Danish composer and pianist.Bentzon was descended from Johan Ernst Hartmann and the great-grandson of J.P.E. Hartmann. From 1938 to 1942, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Knud Jeppesen and Christian Christiansen...

  • Nicolai Berendt
    Nicolai Berendt
    Nicolai Berendt was a Danish pianist and composer.He debuted as a pianist in November 1846 at the Royal Theater of Denmark with a piano concerto by Johann Nepomuk Hummel...

  • Gunnar Berg
  • Andreas Peter Berggreen
    Andreas Peter Berggreen
    Andreas Peter Berggreen was a Danish composer, organist, and pedagogue.Berggreen was born and died in Copenhagen. He initially studied law before pursuing a career in music, studying under Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse. Berggreen was the organist at Trinitatis Kirke in Copenhagen from 1838 and...

  • Ilja Bergh
    Ilja Bergh
    Ilja Bergh is a Danish pianist and composer.His father was a singing teacher and his mother, Russian-born, was a painter. His grandfather was the composer Rudolph Sophus Bergh and his great-grandfather physician and zoologist Rudolph Bergh....

  • Rudolph Sophus Bergh
    Rudolph Sophus Bergh
    Rudolph Sophus Bergh was a Danish composer and zoologist. He was the son of physician and zoologist Rudolph Bergh. He received his general education at the Metropolitanskolen and then studied music at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and zoology at the University of Copenhagen...

  • Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen
    Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen
    Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen is a Danish music theorist, teacher and composer.Bergstrøm-Nielsen completed his studies in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen in 1984. From 1983 he was a teaching assistant at Aalborg University. He developed a special graphic music notation called "intuitive...

  • Niels Bernhart
    Niels Bernhart
    Niels Bernhart was a Danish pianist, composer and lecturer.Born in Holbæk, he was assigned to the entertainment industry for over 40 years and toured for many years around the country with his own orchestra....

  • Viggo Bielefeldt
    Viggo Bielefeldt
    Viggo Bielefeldt was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.daughter: Johanne Margrethe...

  • Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod
    Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod
    Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod was a Danish composer and organist.The son of the writer Frederik Barfod, he was trained as an organist at the Royal Danish Academy of Music 1870-1872. In 1873 he became organist at Metodistkirken in Copenhagen, 1877–1895, he was at Our Lady Church in Svendborg and...

  • Erling Bjerno
    Erling Bjerno
    Erling D. Bjerno is a Danish composer and organist. He trained as an organist and was for years 1967 - 1996 employed by Ansgar Church in Aalborg. During the same period he was employed as a teacher at Nordjysk Music....

  • Thomas Blachman
    Thomas Blachman
    Thomas Blachman is a Danish jazz musician, composer and five times Danish Music Awards-winner.In his home country he is best known as a judge in the Danish version of the TV show "X Factor".- External links :...

  • Georg Carl Bohlmann
    Georg Carl Bohlmann
    Georg Carl Bohlmann was a Danish music teacher, music director, organist and composer.The son of tobacco manufacturers, Bohlmann received his musical training in Bremen, where he stayed from 1851–1859 and was educated under Carl Heinemann...

  • Elisabeth Boisen
    Elisabeth Boisen
    Ane Elisabeth Susette Boisen was a Danish composer.Elisabeth Boisen was granddaughter of N.F.S. Grundtvig and her father, Peter Outzen Boisen from 1851 was manager of the Queen Caroline Amalie Asylum School, which Grundtvig was the manager. From 1854 her father also worked as in Vartov Church...

  • Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen
    Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen
    Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen was a Danish composer and music theorist.He was a student at The Royal Danish Academy of Music 1873–1875 under E. Neupert, V. Tofte G. Matthison-Hansen, J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels W. Gade. From 1876–1886, he was assistant organist in Holmen Church. From 1883–1901 he...

  • Niels Bonke
    Niels Bonke
    Niels Bonke is a Danish Composer, Drummer, Pianist, Songwriter, Recording Artist & Producer.He has been drummer in several Danish symphonic, heavy rock/metal bands from the middle of the 1980s through the 1990s...

  • Helge Bonnén
    Helge Bonnén
    Helge Bonnén was a Danish composer and pianist. He is best remembered for his politics of music.He made his debut as a pianist during World War II after having been a student of Agnes Adler and Anders Rachlew. Bonnen was responsible for starting the Young Musician Society , it is now known as...

  • Melchior Borchgrevinck
    Melchior Borchgrevinck
    Melchior Borchgrevinck was a Dutch-Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister. He was born to Bonaventura Borchgrevinck, a Dutch-Danish musician and court Kapellmeister...

  • Kim Borg
    Kim Borg
    Kim Borg was a Finnish bass, teacher and composer. He had wide-ranging, resonant, warm voice.-Biography:Kim Borg was born in Helsinki...

  • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
    Axel Borup-Jørgensen
    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...

  • Hans Brachrogge
    Hans Brachrogge
    Hans Brachrogge was a Danish singer and composer.His birth and death as well as his place of birth is unknown although he is known to have studied under Melchior Borchgrevinck....

  • Steffen Brandt
    Steffen Brandt
    Steffen Brandt is a Danish singer-songwriter and composer. Since 1981 he has been lead singer of rock group TV-2, as he also wrote both text and music to all the group's songs....

  • Ivar Bredal
    Ivar Bredal
    Ivar Frederik Bredal was a Danish composer and musician.Son of Niels Iversen Bredal who was born in Bergen, but lived as a sign teacher and portrait painter in Copenhagen,...

  • Erling Brene
    Erling Brene
    Niels Erling Emmanuel Brene was a Danish composer.He was born and died in Copenhagen.In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Viguer" ....

  • Viggo Brodersen
    Viggo Brodersen
    Viggo Brodersen was a Danish composer and pianist. Among his teachers in Copenhagen was Louis Glass. Much of his work is for his own instrument.-References:...

  • Kai Aage Bruun
    Kai Aage Bruun
    Kai Aage Bruun was a Danish music writer, critic and composer.Bruun grew up in a musical home. His father was cellist in The Royal Chapel and was educated by The Royal Danish Academy of Music. His mother was the sister of composers Roger Henrichsen and Edgar Henrichsen and Kai Aage was thus...

  • Peter Bruun
    Peter Bruun
    Peter Bruun is a Danish composer. He is a native of Aarhus, and studied philosophy at Aarhus University before turning to composition.He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2008 for his composition Miki Alone.-References:...

  • Ole Buck
    Ole Buck
    Ole Buck is a Danish composer.Buck studied the piano from the age of twelve. He also made many early attempts at orchestral composition, eventually achieving a breakthrough at the age of 20 with Calligraphy for soprano and chamber orchestra...

  • Carl Busch
    Carl Busch
    Carl Busch was a Danish-born American composer and music teacher sometimes associated with the Indianist movement. He was an important figure in the musical life of Kansas City, Missouri for many years.-Background:Busch was born in Bjerre, on Jutland, to a lawyer and his wife, and was the...

  • Volkmar Busch
    Volkmar Busch
    Joseph Marie Francois Volkmar Busch was a Danish composer. He studied music with Friedrich Wieck in Leipzig, and there became acquainted with Wieck's daughter Clara.-References:...

  • Dietrich Buxtehude
  • Erik Bøgh
    Erik Bøgh
    Erik Bøgh was a Danish journalist, playwright and songwriter. From 1881-1899 he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre. He died in Copenhagen.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Hakon Børresen

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  • Camillo Carlsen
    Camillo Carlsen
    Camillo Carlsen was a Danish composer.-Notable works:*Forår *Violinromance *Strygekvartet nr. 1 i d-mol *8 Klaverstykker *Sørgemusik ved Frederik d...

  • Henrik Carlsen
    Henrik Carlsen
    Henrik Carlsen is a Danish composer, record producer and keyboardist.He was a founding member of Street Beat in 1982 and led it until it was disbanded in 1993....

  • Bernhard Christensen
    Bernhard Christensen
    Bernhard Christensen was a Danish composer and organist.He studied music at University of Copenhagen from 1926. In 1929 he graduated and was organist until 1945 at Christiansborg Slotskirke. Then he was hired as organist by Vangede Church from 1945-1976...

  • Tim Christensen
    Tim Christensen
    Tim Christensen is a Danish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, bass guitar, drums, Mellotron, harmonium, keyboard, piano and organ...

  • Asger Lund Christiansen
    Asger Lund Christiansen
    Asger Lund Christiansen was a Danish cellist and composer.He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, graduating in 1946. Alongside Bløndal Erling Bengtsson, he was his generation's most recognized Danish cellist...

  • Henning Christiansen
    Henning Christiansen
    Henning Christiansen was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen...

  • Karl Clausen
    Karl Clausen
    Karl Søren Clausen was a Danish pianist and composer.-Notable works:*Klokken *Tema med Variationer *Blæserkvintet *Fløjtekoncert -References:...

  • Niels Clemmensen
    Niels Clemmensen
    Niels Clemmensen was a Danish pianist and composer.- Notable works :*Fra Kap til Kronborg *Den er fin med kompasset *Tjin-Tjin-Juanita *Union Jack *Paustians ur *Katinka, Katinka...

  • Adrian Petit Coclico
  • Carl Cohn Haste
    Carl Cohn Haste
    Carl Cohn Haste was a Danish pianist, organist and composer.Blind from the age of 5 after an eye inflammation, he became music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, composer and the first president of Danish Association of the Blind.From 1883–1892 he was a pupil at the Blind Institute...

  • Victor Cornelius
    Victor Cornelius
    Victor Cornelius was a Danish composer, pianist and singer.He is best known for his songs Toner fra himlen, Tre røde roser, Lille kammerat, Tak for gode som for onde år, I en sal på hospitalet and Mor er den bedste i verden.Cornelius also composed for a number of films including:*Alle går rundt...

  • Fritz Crome
    Fritz Crome
    Fritz Crome was a Danish composer and music writer.-Biography:Fritz Crome was the son of August Crome, who founded the store Crom & Goldschmidt in Copenhagen. He started an engineering course at the Danish Polytechnic , but soon switched to music. He trained as a pianist with Louis Glass and...

  • Simoni Dall Croubelis
    Simoni Dall Croubelis
    Simoni Dall Croubelis was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....


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  • Balduin Dahl
    Balduin Dahl
    Christian Florus Balduin Dahl was a Danish composer and conductor. He spent a portion of his career with Den Kongelige Livgarde. He was the son of a musician at Tivoli Gardens.-References:...

  • Nancy Dalberg
    Nancy Dalberg
    Nancy Dalberg was a Danish composer.Dalberg grew up on the Danish island of Funen where she learned to play the piano. Her father, a well-off industrialist, refused her wish to study at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen and in the end she took private composition lessons from Johan Svendsen,...

  • Johan Darbes
    Johan Darbes
    Johan Darbes was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Christian Debois
    Christian Debois
    Christian Debois was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Søffren Degen
    Søffren Degen
    Søffren Degen was a Danish classical guitarist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Peter Deutsch
    Peter Deutsch
    Peter R. Deutsch is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. Deutsch was a Democratic Representative from Florida's 20th congressional district from 1993 until 2005.- Background :...

  • Nathanael Diesel
    Nathanael Diesel
    Nathanael Diesel was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy
    Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy
    Jean Baptiste Édouard Louis Camille Du Puy was a Swiss-born singer, composer, director and violinist. He lived and worked in Copenhagen and Stockholm from 1793 until his death in 1822.-Early years:...

  • Otto Dütsch
    Otto Dütsch
    Otto Dütsch was a Danish composer, who worked in St. Petersburg for most of his short career.He was the son of Joachim Dütsch who was worked in the Danish finance ministry, but was also a music teacher at the Blind Institute. As a 5-year-old junior Dütsch was taught by Giuseppe Siboni at the...


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  • Adolph Julius Eggers
    Adolph Julius Eggers
    Adolph Julius Eggers was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Søren Nils Eichberg
    Søren Nils Eichberg
    Søren Nils Eichberg is a German/Danish composer. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra's history.He studied piano and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen and Cologne....

  • Niels Eje
    Niels Eje
    Niels Eje is a Danish composer and oboist.Niels Eje was educated at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Denmark 1974 to 1979...

  • Henning Elbirk
    Henning Elbirk
    Henning Elbirk was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Ejnar Emborg
    Ejnar Emborg
    Ejnar Emborg was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Harald Bjerg Emborg
    Harald Bjerg Emborg
    Harald Bjerg Emborg was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Jens Laursøn Emborg
    Jens Laursøn Emborg
    Jens Laursøn Emborg was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Jørgen Emborg
    Jørgen Emborg
    Jørgen Emborg is a Danish jazz pianist and composer.-References:*...

  • Aage Emborg
    Aage Emborg
    Aage Emborg was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • August Enna
    August Enna
    August Enna was a Danish composer, known mainly for his operas.Enna was born in Denmark, but his ethnic origins lay in the town of Enna in Sicily. His first major success as a composer was The Witch , which was followed by several popular operas, songs, two symphonies , and a violin concerto...

  • Poul Allin Erichsen
    Poul Allin Erichsen
    Poul Allin Erichsen was a Danish clarinetist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Morten Eskesen
    Morten Eskesen
    Morten Eskesen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • René Evald

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  • Jacob Christian Fabricius
    Jacob Christian Fabricius
    Jacob Christian Fabricius was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
  • Erik Fiehn
  • Frederik Foersom
    Frederik Foersom
    Frederik Foersom was a Danish composer and organist.- Notable works :*Rind nu op i Jesu navn *Rondolette *Jubel-Cantate *Morgensang*Reformations-Cantate*Seiersmarsch *Sørge-Cantate...

  • Peter Christian Foersom
    Peter Christian Foersom
    Peter Christian Foersom was a Danish organist and composer. He was an organist at St. Knuds Church, from 1790 to 1856.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Johan Foltmar
    Johan Foltmar
    Johan Foltmar was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Ida Henriette da Fonseca
    Ida Henriette da Fonseca
    Ida Henriette da Fonseca was a Danish opera singer and composer.Ida Henriette da Fonseca was the daughter of Abraham da Fonseca and Marie Sofie Kiærskou . She and her sister Emilie da Fonseca were students of Giuseppe Siboni, choir master of the Opera in Copenhagen...

  • Julius Foss
    Julius Foss
    Julius Foss was a Danish composer, organist and jazz guitarist.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • John Frandsen
  • Axel Frederiksen
    Axel Frederiksen
    Axel Frederiksen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Johan Henrik Freithoff
    Johan Henrik Freithoff
    Johan Henrik Freithoff was a Norwegian-Danish violinist and composer.-External links:...

  • Carl Johan Frydensberg
    Carl Johan Frydensberg
    Carl Johan Frydensberg was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Johannes Frederik Frølich
  • Frederik Christian Funck
    Frederik Christian Funck
    Frederik Christian Funck was a Danish cellist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Peter Ferdinand Funck
    Peter Ferdinand Funck
    Peter Ferdinand Funck was a Danish violinist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Fuzzy
    Fuzzy (composer)
    Jens Vilhelm Pedersen, also known as Fuzzy is a Danish composer and musician. A student of Per Nørgård, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti and Jan Bark...

  • Johanne Fenger
    Johanne Fenger
    Johanne Fenger was a Danish composer.-Notable works:*Sex danske Sange *Ahasverus *Lyriske Sange *Digte af Helene Nyblom *Menneskets Engle -References:...

  • Carl Gottlob Füssel
    Carl Gottlob Füssel
    Carl Gottlob Füssel was a Danish clarinetist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....


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  • Ingolf Gabold
    Ingolf Gabold
    Ingolf Georg August Gabold is a Danish composer. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.He is currently the head of the dramatic fiction department at DR, the Danish national broadcaster.-References:...

  • Axel Gade
    Axel Gade
    Axel Gade was a Danish violinist, composer and conductor. He was the son of Niels Wilhelm Gade.-Notable works:*Violin concerto No. 1 in D major *Violin concerto Op. 10, No...

  • Jacob Gade
    Jacob Gade
    Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music....

  • Niels W. Gade
  • Johann Christian Gebauer
    Johann Christian Gebauer
    Johann Christian Gebauer was a Danish composer, organist and music theorist.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Christian Geisler
    Christian Geisler
    Christian Peder Wilhelm Geisler was a Danish organist and composer.-Notable works:* Arnes Sange, 3 Songs of Björnetjerne Björnsons Arne, Op.1 * Sonatine in G major for piano, Op.2...

  • Christian Geist
    Christian Geist
    Christian Geist was a German composer and organist, who lived and worked mainly in Scandinavia.-Biography:He was born in Güstrow, where his father, Joachim Geist, was cantor at the cathedral school. 1665–1666 and 1668–1669 he was a boy member of the court orchestra conducted by Daniel Danielis of...

  • Carl Ludvig Gerlach
    Carl Ludvig Gerlach
    Carl Ludvig Gerlach was a Danish composer and opera singer.- Notable works:*Kjærlighed er trolddom *3 Charakteerstykker *Fader vor *Jesus opvækker Lazarus...

  • Georg Gerson
    Georg Gerson
    Georg Gerson was a Danish composer and banker. Most of his works are orchestral.-External Links:...

  • W.H.R.R. Giedde
    W.H.R.R. Giedde
    Werner Hans Rudolph Rosenkrantz Giedde was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Lennart Ginman
    Lennart Ginman
    Lennart Ginman is a Danish bassist, composer and music producer.-References:*...

  • Nicolo Gistou
    Nicolo Gistou
    Nicolo Gistou was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Christian Henrik Glass
    Christian Henrik Glass
    Christian Henrik Glass was a Danish composer, organist and pianist. He was a student of Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann. His son was the composer and pianist Louis Glass.-References:...

  • Louis Glass
    Louis Glass
    Louis Glass was a Danish composer.Glass, born in Copenhagen, was almost an exact contemporary of Carl Nielsen and like Nielsen was a student of Niels Gade. However, Glass also studied at the Brussels Conservatory where he became enamored of the music of César Franck and Anton Bruckner, both of...

  • Franz Joseph Glæser
    Franz Joseph Glæser
    Franz Joseph Glæser was a Czech/Danish composer.-Work:Die vier Haimonskinder * Bärnburgs Sturz * Das Mädchen ohne Zunge...

  • Joseph Glæser
    Joseph Glæser
    Joseph August Eduard Friedrich Glæser was a Danish composer and organist.-Notable works:*Høje Nord, Friheds Hjem *duets*firstemmige mandssange*some hymn tunes...

  • Peder Gram
    Peder Gram
    Peder Gram was a Danish composer and organist.Gram was born in Copenhagen and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under Stephan Krehl, Arthur Nikisch and Hans Sitt. From 1908, he worked as a conductor in Copenhagen and from 1918 to 1932, he led the performances of the Dansk Koncertforening...

  • Axel Grandjean
    Axel Grandjean
    Axel Carl William Grandjean was a Danish composer and conductor.He was one of the first students at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with dignified teachers such as Niels Gade, Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, August Winding and Johann Christian Gebauer...

  • Lars Graugaard
    Lars Graugaard
    Lars Graugaard is a Danish composer, performer, media artist and sonologist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he studied flute and Oxford Brookes University where he defended a PhD in gesture and emotion in interactive music.-References:***** at DVM* at DVM...

  • Sanne Graulund
  • Tekla Griebel-Wandall
    Tekla Griebel-Wandall
    Tekla Griebel-Wandall was a Danish composer and music educator.-Biography:Tekla Griebel was born in Randers, Denmark, the daughter of Theodor Johan Heinrich Griebel and teacher Camilla Joachimine Andresen . She began her musical studies at the age of seven, taking piano lessons from her father...

  • Michael Ehregott Grose
    Michael Ehregott Grose
    Michael Ehregott Grose was a Danish organist and composer. Notable works include Samling af lette Harpe, Claveer og Syngestykker for Liebhavere og Begyndere and Morgenen .-External links:...

  • Heinrich Ernst Grosmann
    Heinrich Ernst Grosmann
    Heinrich Ernst Grosmann was a Danish composer. He is best known for his work with Aarhus Cathedral.Notable works include Paaske Music and Cantata Paa Christi Himmelfarts Dag. Gud farer op -References:...

  • Jacob Groth
    Jacob Groth
    Jacob Groth is a Danish film composer. He is noted for his work with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. He composed the music for the Millennium Trilogy films...

  • Georg Grothe
    Georg Grothe
    Georg Grothe was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Launy Grøndahl
    Launy Grøndahl
    Launy Grøndahl was a Danish composer and conductor. Grøndahl studied the violin from the age of eight. His first work as a professional musician was as a violinist was with the Orchestra of the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen when he was aged just thirteen.He was also for a long period of time the...

  • Peter Grønland
    Peter Grønland
    Peter Grønland was a Danish composer.- Notable works :*Melodien zu den gesellschaftlichen Liederbuche *Notenbuch zu das akademischen Liederbuchs erstem Bändchen...

  • Steen Grøntved
  • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
    Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
    -Biography:Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is the son of the sculptor Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. He studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen, with Høffding, Westergaard, and Hjelmborg, graduating in 1958 .He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1980...

  • Bo Gunge
    Bo Gunge
    Bo Gunge is a Danish composer.-References:...

  • Cornelius Gurlitt
  • Hugo Gyldmark
    Hugo Gyldmark
    Hugo Gyldmark was a Danish composer and conductor.Gyldmark played cello from a young age and his first engagement as an orchestral musician was at 15 years of age Back in Copenhagen he formed with his brothers Leonard and Sven Gyldmark and formed the Gyldmark trio, which played for the silent...

  • Sven Gyldmark
    Sven Gyldmark
    Sven Rudolf Sidenius Gyldmark was a Danish film score composer.He was the brother of Hugo Gyldmark and Leonard who were also composers.- Filmography:*Sønnen fra vingården...

  • Birger Wøllner Gaarn
    Birger Wøllner Gaarn
    Birger Wøllner Gaarn was a Danish organist, organ teacher and composer. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1902, and was the organist at Christian's Church, Copenhagen from 1907 to 1949.-References:...


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  • Sophus Hagen
    Sophus Hagen
    Sophus Hagen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Mads Hak
    Mads Hak
    Mads Hak was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Andreas Hallager
    Andreas Hallager
    Andreas Hallager was a Danish musician and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Sophus Halle
    Sophus Halle
    Sophus Halle was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Povl Hamburger
    Povl Hamburger
    Povl Hamburger was a Danish organist and composer.Notable works include Musikens Historie I-II, 1936–37, Harmonilære, 1939, Modulationslære, 1941, Kirketoneart, 1948, and Harmonisk analyse, 1951...

  • Asger Hamerik
    Asger Hamerik
    Asger Hamerik , was a Danish composer of classical music.Born in Frederiksberg , he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He wrote his first pieces in his teens, including an unperformed symphony...

  • Ebbe Hamerik
    Ebbe Hamerik
    Ebbe Hamerik was a Danish composer. Born in Copenhagen, he was the son of composer Asger Hamerik. He died at the age of 52 in Kattegat....

  • Margaret Hamerik
    Margaret Hamerik
    Margaret Hamerik was a Danish composer and pianist.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Jodle Birge
    Jodle Birge
    Birge Lønquist Hansen better known as Jodle Birge was a Danish composer and singer. His most famous tracks were "Rigtige Venner" and "Tre hvide duer" . Jodle Birge sold over two million cd's...

  • Christian Julius Hansen
    Christian Julius Hansen
    Christian Julius Hansen was a Danish composer.-Notable works:*Seks romancer *Ouverture i c-mol *Ouverture i E-dur *musik til C...

  • Frants Johannes Hansen
    Frants Johannes Hansen
    Frants Johannes Hansen was a Danish composer.Notable works include 6 Galopper til Studenterforeningen .-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Nicolaj Hansen
    Nicolaj Hansen
    Johannes Nicolaj Hansen was a Danish composer and violinist.-Selected works:*Brødrene Ranzau *Den Anden April *Uden Midtpunkt *Lette Dragoner...

  • Robert Emil Hansen
    Robert Emil Hansen
    Robert Emil Hansen was a Danish composer and cellist.-Selected works:*Symphony No. 1 in D minor *Cello concerto *Piano Trio *Phædra *Piano concerto...

  • Thorvald Hansen
    Thorvald Hansen
    Thorvald Hansen was a Norwegian nordic combined skier who won the event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1905 and 1909. For being the first two-time Nordic combined winner, Hansen earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1909.-References:...

  • Hans Hansen
    Hans Hansen (composer)
    Hans Hansen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Egil Harder
    Egil Harder
    Egil Georg Harder was a Danish composer.- Notable works:*Rokoko-vals *Juletræet med sin pynt *Lille suite for strygeorkester *Den blå anemone 1945)*Spansk dans for orkester...

  • Knud Harder
    Knud Harder
    Knud Harder was a Danish composer.-External links:...

  • August Wilhelm Hartmann
    August Wilhelm Hartmann
    August Wilhelm Hartmann was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Emil Hartmann
    Emil Hartmann
    Emil Hartmann was a Danish composer, the eldest son of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and brother-in-law to Niels Gade. His son Oluf Hartmann was a painter....

  • Emma Hartmann
    Emma Hartmann
    Emma Hartmann née Zinn was a Danish composer who used the pseudonym Frederick H. Palmer to publish music. She was born in Copenhagen, the daughter of J.Fr. Zinn, and studied singing and piano with composer Andreas Peter Berggreen. She married composer J.P.E. Hartmann in 1829 and became the mother...

  • J.P.E. Hartmann
  • Johan Ernst Hartmann
    Johan Ernst Hartmann
    Johan Ernst Hartmann was a Danish organist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Johann Hartmann
    Johann Hartmann
    Johann Hartmann was a Danish composer. Two of his sons were composers, Johan Ernst Hartmann and August Wilhelm Hartmann...

  • Frank Hasselstrøm
  • Lars Hegaard
    Lars Hegaard
    Lars Hegaard is a Danish composer and guitarist.-References:...

  • Anton Hegner
    Anton Hegner
    Anton Hegner was a Danish composer.-External links:...

  • Ludvig Hegner
    Ludvig Hegner
    Ludvig Albert Hegner was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Jørgen Heide
    Jørgen Heide
    Jørgen Heide was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Peter Heise
  • Paul Hellmuth
    Paul Hellmuth
    Paul Emil Friederich Hellmuth was a Danish organist and composer.-External links:...

  • Thomas Helmig
    Thomas Helmig
    Thomas Helmig is a Danish rock singer and musician, and has been one of the most popular singers in Denmark since the middle of the 1980s.-Biography:...

  • Carl Helsted
    Carl Helsted
    Carl Helsted was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Edvard Helsted
    Edvard Helsted
    Edvard Mads Ebbe Helsted was a Danish composer. He was born in Copenhagen and died in Frederiksborg.-References:*This article was initially translated from Danish Wikipedia...

  • Gustav Helsted
    Gustav Helsted
    Gustav Carl Helsted was a Danish composer.- Notable works :*Ouverture i c-mol *Scherzo i c#-mol *Strygekvartet i h-mol...

  • Edgar Henrichsen
    Edgar Henrichsen
    Edgar Henrichsen was a Danish composer and organist. He was the brother of Roger Henrichsen, and was a student of Gustav Helsted and Alexandre Guilmant.-References:...

  • Roger Henrichsen
    Roger Henrichsen
    Roger Henrichsen was a Danish composer and pianist. He was the brother of Edgar Henrichsen, and was a student of Louis Glass. His son was the jazz pianist Børge Roger-Henrichsen.-References:...

  • Fini Henriques
    Fini Henriques
    Valdemar Fini Henriques was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Robert Henriques
    Robert Henriques
    Robert David Quixano Henriques was a British writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of Jewish business tycoons, published during the middle part of the 20th century.-Life and career:Robert Henriques was born in 1905 to one of the...

  • Bent Hesselmann
    Bent Hesselmann
    Bent Hesselmann is a Danish saxophonist, flautist and composer.-References:...

  • Christian Hildebrandt
    Christian Hildebrandt
    Christian Hildebrandt is a Danish composer.-External links:**...

  • Niels Peter Hillebrandt
    Niels Peter Hillebrandt
    Niels Peter Hillebrandt was a Danish organist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Bjørn Hjelmborg
    Bjørn Hjelmborg
    Bjørn Hjelmborg was a Danish composer and organist.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Ludvig Holm
    Ludvig Holm
    Ludvig Sophus Adolph Theodor Holm was a Danish violinist and composer.-Notable works:*op. 1 Fire sange*op. 2 Klavervariationer*op. 3 klaver*op. 4 klaver*op. 5 Strygekvartet Eb-dur*op. 6 Violinkoncert...

  • Mogens Winkel Holm
    Mogens Winkel Holm
    Mogens Winkel Holm was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.Mogens Winkel Holm was a Danish composer....

  • Vilhelm Christian Holm
    Vilhelm Christian Holm
    Vilhelm Christian Holm was a Danish composer.- Notable works :*La Ventana *Fjernt fra Danmark *Ponte molle *Livjægerne paa Amager *Et Æventyr i Billeder *Mandarinens Døtre...

  • Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...

  • Bo Holten
    Bo Holten
    Bo Holten is a Danish composer and conductor.He has been the principal conductor for the vocal ensembles Ars Nova and Musica Ficta , as well as guest-conductor for the BBC Singers...

  • C.F.E. Horneman
    C.F.E. Horneman
    Christian Frederik Emil Horneman was a Danish composer.-External links:...

  • Emil Horneman
    Emil Horneman
    Johan Ole Emil Horneman was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Bjarne Hoyer
    Bjarne Hoyer
    Bjarne Hoyer was a Danish composer.Bjarne Hoyer was educated at Niels Brock College in 1935, after which he began to compose popular dance music music. He and Knud Pheiffer got the idea for a radio cabaret, Vi unge , which he participated in between 1938 and 1943...

  • Johan Hye-Knudsen
    Johan Hye-Knudsen
    -External links:*...

  • Otto Hænning
    Otto Hænning
    Otto Hænning was a Danish composer and guitarist.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Georg Høeberg
    Georg Høeberg
    Georg Høeberg was a Danish composer and conductor. His 1933 performance of Carl Nielsen's Fifth Symphony is thought to be the earliest surviving recorded performance of any Nielsen symphony. His grandfather was the Danish composer and conductor at Tivoli Gardens, Hans Christian Lumbye.-External...

  • Finn Høffding
    Finn Høffding
    Niels Finn Høffding was a Danish composer. Høffding studied composition under Knud Jeppesen and Thomas Laub, and then under Joseph Marx in Vienna from 1921-22. His works first became well-known in Denmark in the 1920s, particularly the piece Karlsvognen...


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  • Ejnar Jacobsen
    Ejnar Jacobsen
    Ejnar Jacobsen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Jens Bjerre Jacobsen
    Jens Bjerre Jacobsen
    Jens Bjerre Jacobsen was a Danish composer and organist.-Notable works:*Serenade *Mosaïque musicale nr...

  • Niels Peter Jensen
    Niels Peter Jensen
    Niels Peter Jensen was a Danish composer, flutist and organist.-Biography:Niels Peter Jensen was an organ pupil of Friedrich Kuhlau. Since 1828 he was organist at St. Peter's Church in Copenhagen. As well, he was a flute virtuoso and teacher...

  • Knud Jeppesen
    Knud Jeppesen
    Knud Jeppesen was a Danish musicologist, composer, and writer on the history of music....

  • Jørgen Jersild
    Jørgen Jersild
    Jørgen Jersild was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Axel Jørgensen
    Axel Jørgensen
    Axel Jørgensen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • C.V. Jørgensen
    C.V. Jørgensen
    C.V. Jørgensen is a Danish rock music composer and singer.- Discography :* En stynet strejfer * T-shirts, terylenebukser og gummisko * Storbyens små oaser * Vild i varmen...


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  • Leif Kayser
    Leif Kayser
    Leif Kayser was a Danish composer and organist and Catholic priest. He served at St. Ansgar's Cathedral in Copenhagen.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Axel Kjerulf
    Axel Kjerulf
    Axel Kjerulf was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Charles Kjerulf
    Charles Kjerulf
    Charles Kjerulf was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Povl Kjøller
    Povl Kjøller
    Povl Kjøller was a Danish composer and guitarist. Pal Kjøller is known for the songs Min Cykel and Bakke snagvendt...

  • Paul von Klenau
    Paul von Klenau
    Paul August von Klenau was a Danish-born composer who worked primarily in Germany and Austria.Klenau was born and died in Copenhagen...

  • Werner Knudsen
    Werner Knudsen
    Werner Knudsen in Ringsted) is a Danish computer scientist, composer and author of both choral music and IT books. He is an IT architect at IBM and used to work at TDC A/S. He lives in Glostrup close to Copenhagen....

  • Anders Koppel
    Anders Koppel
    Anders Koppel was a co-founder in 1967 of the rock group Savage Rose. Since 1976, he has been a member of the trio Bazaar. He also plays in the trio Koppel-Andersen-Koppel which includes his son, saxophone player Benjamin Koppel...

  • Thomas Koppel
    Thomas Koppel
    Thomas Koppel was a versatile Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician.His father, Herman David Koppel , a composer and pianist of Jewish origin, fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. Thomas was born in a refugee camp in Sweden...

  • Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
    Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
    Søren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.-Early career:...

  • Henrik Krogsgaard
  • Peter Casper Krossing
    Peter Casper Krossing
    Peter Casper Krossing was a Danish composer.-External links:...

  • Hans Ernst Krøyer
    Hans Ernst Krøyer
    Hans Ernst Krøyer was a Danish composer.Krøyer was born in Copenhagen and the son of Bernt Anker Krøyer and Johanne Margrethe , as well as the brother of Henrik Nikolai Krøyer.He is best remembered as the composer of today's Danish national anthem Der er et yndigt land Hans Ernst (sometimes...

  • Friedrich Kuhlau
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....

  • F.L.Æ. Kunzen
    F.L.Æ. Kunzen
    Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen was a German composer and conductor who lived and worked for much of his life in Denmark.-Life:...

  • Jesper Kyd
    Jesper Kyd
    Jesper Jakobson Kyd is a Danish video game and film score composer.Kyd combines sounds of dark ambient, electronic and symphonic music and has won many awards. He is also notable for his early work in the Amiga demoscene, where he composed a large amount of music in his teenage years, in...

  • Morten Kærså
    Morten Kærså
    prutMorten Kærså was a Danish composer.-References:*...


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  • Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
    Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
    Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller was a Danish composer and pianist. His compositional style was influenced by Danish folk music and by the work of Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and of fellow Danish countrymen, including J. P. E...

  • Rued Langgaard
    Rued Langgaard
    Rued Langgaard was a late-Romantic Danish composer and organist. His then-unconventional music was at odds with that of his Danish contemporaries and was recognized only 16 years after his death.- Life :Born in Copenhagen, Rued Langgaard was the only son of composer and Royal Chamber...

  • Lars Oluf Larsen
    Lars Oluf Larsen
    Lars Oluf Larsen was a Danish composer.-References:*...

  • Søren Sebber Larsen
    Søren Sebber Larsen
    Søren Sebber Larsen is a Danish composer.-References:***...

  • Thomas Laub
    Thomas Laub
    Thomas Linnemann Laub was a Danish organist and composer.-Notable works:*1888 80 rytmiske Koraler, en enstemmig samling*1889–1891 Kirkemelodier, tre hæfter med firstemmige udsættelser...

  • Axel Liebmann
    Axel Liebmann
    Axel Liebmann was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Nanna Liebmann
    Nanna Liebmann
    Nanna Magdalene Liebmann was a Danish , music educator, music critic, concert promoter and composer. She studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with Victor Bendix, Johann Christian Gebauer, J.P.E. Hartmann, Niels W. Gade, August Winding and Carl Helsted. At the conservatory she met composer...

  • Lars Lilholt
    Lars Lilholt
    Lars Lilholt is a Danish singer, violinist, guitarist and composer.- Lars Lilholt Band :* 1982 - Og fanden dukked' op og sagde ja!* 1984 - Jens Langkniv* 1986 - Portland* 1988 - I en sommernat...

  • Anne Linnet
    Anne Linnet
    Anne Linnet Anne Linnet Anne Linnet (born 30 July 1953 in Århus, Denmark, is a Danish singer, musician and composer. She has released a number of solo albums and has also been a member of several bands, such as Shit & Chanel, Anne Linnet Band, and Marquis de Sade. Anne Linnet is one of a small...

  • Martin Lohse
    Martin Lohse
    Martin Lohse is a Danish 21st century classical composer and visual artist.-Biography:Martin Lohse began his education at the Musical Science Institute in Copenhagen...

  • Bent Lorentzen
  • Jakob Lorentzen
    Jakob Lorentzen
    Jakob Lorentzen is a Danish organist and composer. He is organist and choir director of the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen.-References:*** at Holmens Kirke...

  • Hans Christian Lumbye
    Hans Christian Lumbye
    Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a military band. In 1829, he joined the Horse Guards in Copenhagen, still continuing his music...

  • Tom Lundén
    Tom Lundén
    Tom Lundén is a Danish composer and music producer. Lunden was the leader and keyboardist of the flower power rock band Bifrost. His two top hits with Bifrost were Hej Maria and Det er morgen...

  • Frederikke Løvenskiold
    Frederikke Løvenskiold
    Margrethe Frederikke Sophie Løvenskiold was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....


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  • Frederik Magle
    Frederik Magle
    Frederik Magle is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He studied composition and music theory with Leif Thybo and attended the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied composition and organ...

  • Janus Magnussen
  • Otto Malling
    Otto Malling
    Otto Valdemar Malling was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen....

  • Carl Viggo Meincke
    Carl Viggo Meincke
    Fritz Carl Viggo Meincke was a Danish composer, revue author, theater manager and actor.-Early years:Carl Meincke was born on March 8, 1902 on Frederiksborggade 5, Copenhagen, in the parish Trinitatis...

  • Mikkel Meyer
  • John Mogensen
    John Mogensen
    John Mogensen was a Danish singer, song writer and pianist.He was a member of the song quartet Four Jacks and already then getting popularity as a song writer but after some years he had a remarkable come back as a solo singer from 1971...

  • Otto Mortensen
    Otto Mortensen
    Otto Hübertz Mortensen was a Danish composer and conductor. He also played the organ and piano. For a number of years he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre as a rehearser for the opera, and later worked at Aarhus University....

  • Erik Moseholm
    Erik Moseholm
    Erik Moseholm is a Danish jazz bassist, composer, bandleader and music administrator. He was the leader of the DR Big Band from 1961 to 1966 and the principal of the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen from 1992 to 1997....


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  • Franz Xaver Neruda
    Franz Xaver Neruda
    Franz Xaver Neruda was a Danish cellist and composer of Moravian origin.-Life:...

  • Ulrik Neumann
    Ulrik Neumann
    Ulrik Neumann was a Danish film actor and musician. He appeared in 19 films between 1940 and 1966. Ulrik Neumann was an accomplished guitar player. From 1959 to 1961 he was a member of the trio Swe-Danes with the Swedish singer Alice Babs and the Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen.He was born in...

  • Andreas P. Nielsen
    Andreas P. Nielsen
    Andreas P. Nielsen , was a Danish author and composer.Nielsen was born in Kolding, Denmark. He was married to singer and composer, Inge-Marie Nielsen, with whom he directed the Dræsinebanden . Since its inauguration in 1988 the aforementioned orchestra has presented concerts across Denmark and...

  • Carl Nielsen
    Carl Nielsen
    Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...

  • Inge-Marie Nielsen
  • Ludolf Nielsen
    Ludolf Nielsen
    Ludolf Nielsen was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and a pianist. Today he is considered as one of the most important Danish composers of the early 1900s .-Life:...

  • Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen
    Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen
    Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen is a Danish composer and organist. He studied composition with Ib Nørholm, Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen and Karl Aage Rasmussen at the Royal Music Academies of Copenhagen and Aarhus. He is an associate professor in Music Theory at the University of Copenhagen.-External...

  • Erik Norby
    Erik Norby
    Erik Norby was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Heinrich von Nutzhorn
    Heinrich von Nutzhorn
    Heinrich von Nutzhorn was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Cora Nyegaard
    Cora Nyegaard
    Cora Nyegaard was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Per Nørgård
    Per Nørgård
    Per Nørgård is a Danish composer.-Biography:Nørgård studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe...

  • Ib Nørholm
    Ib Nørholm
    Ib Nørholm is a Danish composer and organist.Nørholm studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he later taught , becoming a professor in 1981...


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  • Else Marie Pade
    Else Marie Pade
    Else Marie Pade is a Danish composer.An educated composer, Pade pioneered electronic music and concrete music in Denmark...

  • Steen Pade
    Steen Pade
    Steen Pade is a Danish composer. He studied composition with Ib Nørholm, Per Nørgård, and Karl Aage Rasmussen.From 1992 to 2007 he was director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music-External links:* *...

  • Holger Simon Paulli
    Holger Simon Paulli
    Holger Simon Paulli was a Danish conductor and composer.Paulli was a violin student of Claus Schall. He joined the Royal Danish Orchestra, and became its conductor in 1864. At the same time, he also conducted the Orchestra of the Cecilia Foreningen, and assumed the directorship of the Copenhagen...

  • Gunner Møller Pedersen
    Gunner Møller Pedersen
    Gunner Møller Pedersen is a Danish composer. Pedersen is best noted for composing the scores to nine of the films of Danish director Nils Malmros including Beauty and the Beast in 1983 and Pain of Love 1992...

  • Ivan Pedersen
    Ivan Pedersen
    Ivan Pedersen is a Danish composer.-With McKinleys:* 1973: Pick Up Passion* 1977: McKinleys* 1978: Ballroom Heroes* 1979: New Shoes For The Old Suit* 1980: Robin Hood* 1993: McKinleys 16 Hits...

  • Mogens Pedersøn
    Mogens Pedersøn
    Mogens Pedersøn was a Danish instrumentalist and composer. He is considered the most important Danish-born composer before Buxtehude.-Life:Early in his career he entered the service of the Danish monarch, Christian IV...

  • Tommy Petersen
    Tommy Petersen
    Tommy Petersen is an actor who is best known for his role as the young Zack Mayo in the 1982 hit romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman. He starred in the 1983 hit NBC miniseries V as Josh Brooks.-Filmography:*The Cherokee Trail...

  • James Price
    James Price (composer)
    James Price is a Danish composer and conductor.-References:*...


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  • Christian Joseph Rasmussen
    Christian Joseph Rasmussen
    Christian Joseph Rasmussen was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Karl Aage Rasmussen
    Karl Aage Rasmussen
    Karl Aage Rasmussen is a Danish composer and writer.Quotation and particularly collage played an important role in his music from the early 70s, but increasingly he used pre-existing musical material in new connections and for new purposes, most often in a densely woven montage of small idioms...

  • Emil Reesen
    Emil Reesen
    Emil Reesen was a Danish composer. Aside from composing for ballets and operas he was also a noted film score composer.-Notable works :* 1926 Rapsodien Himmerland* 1928 Variationer over et tema af Schubert...

  • Jascha Richter
    Jascha Richter
    Jascha Richter is a Danish singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the soft rock band, Michael Learns to Rock. He has composed and sung most of MLTR's songs...

  • Jakob Riis
  • Knudåge Riisager
    Knudåge Riisager
    Knudåge Riisager was a Danish composer.Knudåge Riisager was born in Estonia of Danish parents. His father Emil Riisager was an engineer, and the family returned to Denmark in 1900 when Knudåge was three years old.- Notable works :*Ballet music**Benzin op. 17 **Cocktails-Party op...

  • Oluf Ring
    Oluf Ring
    Oluf Ring was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Kjell Roikjer
    Kjell Roikjer
    Kjell Roikjer was a Danish composer and bassoonist who for more than 30 years was a member of the Royal Danish Orchestra . He was a founder of the chamber ensemble "Blæserkvintetten af 1932" and member from 1932 to 1948. As a composer, Roikjer was very productive, writing mostly for small...

  • Leopold Rosenfeld
    Leopold Rosenfeld
    Leopold Rosenfeld was a Danish composer.-External links:...

  • Poul Ruders
    Poul Ruders
    Poul Ruders is a Danish composer.Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s...

  • Frederik Rung
    Frederik Rung
    Frederik Rung was a Danish composer, the son of Henrik Rung.-External links:...

  • Henrik Rung
    Henrik Rung
    Henrik Rung was a Danish composer.-Link:*...

  • P. S. Rung-Keller
    P. S. Rung-Keller
    P. S. Rung-Keller was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Hanne Rømer
    Hanne Rømer
    Hanne Rømer was a Danish composer.-References:* *...

  • Niels Rønsholdt

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  • Thomas Sandberg
    Thomas Sandberg
    Thomas Sandberg is a Danish composer.-References:***...

  • Claus Schall
    Claus Schall
    Claus Nielsen Schall was a Danish violinist and composer.-Notable works:*Bønderne og herrerne på lystgården *Kjærlighedens og Mistankens Magt *Savoyardinderne...

  • Peder Schall
    Peder Schall
    Peder Schall was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Johann Adolph Scheibe
    Johann Adolph Scheibe
    Johann Adolph Scheibe was a Danish composer, who in 1737 published an influential criticism of Johann Sebastian Bach's music.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • 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....

  • Poul Christian Schindler
    Poul Christian Schindler
    Poul Christian Schindler was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
    Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
    Johann Abraham Peter Schulz was a German musician and composer. Today he is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius's poem "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" and the Christmas carol "Ihr Kinderlein kommet".-Life:Schulz attended the Michaelis School from 1757 to 1759 and then the...

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  • Rudolph Simonsen
    Rudolph Simonsen
    Rudolph Hermann Simonsen was a Danish composer who studied under Otto Malling.In 1928, he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Symphony No. 2: Hellas....

  • Svenn Skipper
    Svenn Skipper
    Svenn Skipper is a Danish composer.He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1977. He has performed as a pianist with Danmarks Radio's "RadioUnderholdningsOrkestret" , and has worked as a conductor since 1970...

  • Niels Skousen
    Niels Skousen
    Niels Skousen is a Danish composer, guitarist, actor and poet. Niels Skousen is married to Linda Wendel ....

  • Kira Skov
    Kira Skov
    Kira Skov is Danish singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of rock band Kira & The Kindred Spirits.-Early life:...

  • Peter Spies
  • Anders Steen
    Anders Steen
    Anders Steen is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 42 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Winnipeg Jets.He is Currently a scout for the calgary flames franchise- External links :...

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  • Nikolaj Steen
  • Aage Stentoft
    Aage Stentoft
    Aage Stentoft was a Danish composer, film score composer and theatre director. He composed over 700 melodies during his lifetime.- Biography :...

  • Bo Stief
    Bo Stief
    Bo Stief is a Danish jazz and rock bassist, composer, and arranger born in Copenhagen.He has worked or recorded with Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, George Russell, Kenny Drew and Ben Webster, among many other prominent jazz...

  • Henrik Strube
    Henrik Strube
    Henrik Strube is a Danish guitarist and musician.-Discography:* Fødelandssange * Ven og Fjende * Jackpot * Hunden er løs * Den Flyvende Duo * Unruhrig...

  • Svend S. Schultz
    Svend S. Schultz
    Svend Simon Schultz was a Danish composer and conductor. A pupil of Poul Schierbeck.- Notable works :*Bag kulisserne *Kaffehuset *Solbadet *Høst *Tordenvejret eller Da Søren blev Mand...

  • Bent Sørensen
    Bent Sørensen
    Bent Sørensen is a Danish composer.Sørensen studied composition with Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Jutland Music Academy....

  • Lis Sørensen
    Lis Sørensen
    Lis Sørensen, born 28 May 1955, is a Danish singer. In the 1970s she worked with Anne Linnet in Shit & Chanel and Anne Linnet Band. In 1983 she released her first solo album.-Albums:*Himlen ned på jorden *Lis Sørensen...


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  • John Tchicai
    John Tchicai
    John Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....

  • Michael Teschl
    Michael Teschl
    Michael Christian Teschl is a Danish singer and composer.-References:*...

  • Carl August Thielo
    Carl August Thielo
    Carl August Thielo was a Danish composer.-External links:...

  • Knud Vad Thomsen
    Knud Vad Thomsen
    Knud Vad Thomsen was a Danish composer.-Notable works:* Aquavitten * Bissekræmmeren * Cedric og Beatrice...

  • Kenneth Thordal
    Kenneth Thordal
    Kenneth Thordal is a Danish musician and composer.-External links:*...

  • Peter Thorup
    Peter Thorup
    Peter Thorup was a Danish guitarist, singer, composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark, and he was known outside his own country, when in the late 1960s he met Alexis Korner and the two formed the bands New Church, Collective Consciousness Society...

  • Leif Thybo
    Leif Thybo
    Leif Thybo was a Danish organist and composer. He studied theory with Vagn Holmboe before entering the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he was taught instrumentation by Poul Schierbeck, organ by Emilius Bangert, and theory by Finn Høffding...


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  • Morten Wedendahl
    Morten Wedendahl
    Morten Wedendahl is a Danish composer.-References:*...

  • Flemming Weis
    Flemming Weis
    Flemming Weis was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • Tue West
    Tue West
    Tue West is a Danish composer. He released the album "Tue West" in 2003 and "Meldingen Kommer" in 2005.-External links:*...

  • Svend Westergaard
    Svend Westergaard
    Svend Westergaard was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • C. E. F. Weyse
    Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse
    Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse was a Danish composer.Weyse was born at Altona, now in German territory, but Danish at the time the composer was born. He studied music with Johann Abraham Peter Schulz in Copenhagen...

  • Henriette Wienecke
    Henriette Wienecke
    Henriette Wienecke was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • K.A. Wieth-Knudsen
    K.A. Wieth-Knudsen
    Knud Asbjørn Wieth-Knudsen was a Danish author, economist and composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

  • August Winding
    August Winding
    August Winding was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....

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