Per Nørgård

Per Nørgård Born July 13 1932 Is A Danish Composer. Nørgård Was Born In Gentofte Denmark. He 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. In The 1960s Nørgård Began Exploring The Modernist Techniques Of Central Europe Eventually Developing A Serial Compositional System Based On The "infinity Series" Nørgård 1975 Which He Used In His Voyage Into The Golden Screen The Second And Third Symphonies I Ching And Other Works Of The Late 1960s And 70s Mortensen N.D. . Later He Became Interested In The Swiss Artist Adolf Wölfli Who Inspired Many Of Nørgård's Works Anon N.D. Including The 4th Symphony The Opera Det Guddommelige Tivoli And Papalagi For Solo Guitar. Nørgård Has Composed Works In All Major Genres Six Operas Two Ballets Seven Symphonies And Other Pieces For Orchestra Several Concertos Choral And Vocal Works An Enormous Number Of Chamber Works Among Them Ten String Quartets And Several Solo Instrumental Works. These Include A Number Of Works For The Guitar Mostly Written For The Danish Guitarist Erling Møldrup In Memory Of... 1978 Papalagi 1981 A Series Of Suites Called Tales From A Hand 1985–2001 Early Morn 1997–98 And Rondino Amorino 1999 . One Of His Most Important Works For Percussion Solo Is I Ching 1982 For The Danish Percussionist Gert Mortensen. He Has Also Composed Music For Several Films Including The Red Cloak 1966 Babette's Feast 1987 And Hamlet Prince Of Denmark 1993 . Nørgård Is Also A Prolific Writer. He Has Written Many Articles Dealing With Music Not Only From A Technical But Also A Philosophical Viewpoint. Music Nørgård's Music Often Features The Use Of The Infinity Series Danish Uendelighedsrækken For Serializing Melody Harmony And Rhythm In Musical Composition. The Method Takes Its Name From The Endlessly Self-Similar Nature Of The Resulting Musical Material Comparable To Fractal Geometry. Mathematically The Infinity Series Is An Integer Sequence. The First Few Terms Of Its Simplest Form Are 0 1 −1 2 1 0 −2 3 … Sequence A004718 In OEIS . Nørgård Discovered The Melodic Infinity Series In 1959 And It Proved An Inspiration For Many Of His Works During The 1960s. However It Was Not Until His Voyage Into The Golden Screen For Small Ensemble 1968 —which Has Been Identified As The First "properly Instrumental Piece Of Spectral Composition" Anderson 2000 14 —and Symphony No. 2 1970 That It Provided The Structure For An Entire Work Nørgård 1975 9 . The Harmonic And Rhythmic Infinity Series Were Developed In The Early 1970s And The Three Series Were First Integrated In Nørgård's Symphony No. 3. Works Symphonic Symphony No. 1 Sinfonia Austera 1953–55 Symphony No. 2 1970 Symphony No. 3 1972–75 Symphony No. 4 1981 Symphony No. 5 1990 Symphony No. 6 At The End Of The Day 1998–99 Symphony No. 7 2006 Concerti Violin Concerto No. 1 Helle Nacht 1986–87 Violin Concerto No. 2 Borderlines
Piano Concerto Concerto In Due Tempi 1994–95 Selected Other Works Trio No. 1 1955 Op.15
Konstellationer Constellations 1958 Piano Sonata No.2 Op.20
Voyage Into The Golden Screen 1968 Libra 1973 Turn 1973 Siddharta 1974–79 Wie Ein Kind Like A Child 1979–80 Drømmesange Dream Songs 1981 I Ching 1982 Najader The Naiads 1986 Solo Intimo Op. 8 For Solo 'Cello 1953 read less