Poul Rovsing Olsen
Poul Rovsing Olsen
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Genres: composer, Classical, denmark, nordic, western classical music
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About Poul Rovsing Olsen
(b Copenhagen, 4 Nov 1922; d there, 2 July 1982). Danish composer. He studied with Jeppesen at the Copenhagen Conservatory (1943-6) and with Boulanger and Messiaen in Paris (1948-9), then worked in Copenhagen as a music critic. His early works showed the influences of Bartók, Stravinsky and Nielsen, joined in the 1950s by 12-note serialism, but from the 1960s his music began to reflect his work as a musical ethnologist (A L′inconnu for voice and 13 instruments, 1962): he did fieldwork in Greenland and the Persian Gulf and taught at the universities of Lund (1967-9) and Copenhagen (from 1969). His output includes an opera, orchestral and chamber music, piano pieces and songs.
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