Carl nielsen composer biography
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Carl Nielsen
Danish composer (–)
For other uses, see Carl Nielsen (disambiguation).
Carl Nielsen | |
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Nielsen, c.&#; | |
| Born | ()9 June Sortelung, Denmark |
| Died | 3 October () (aged&#;66) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, and violinist |
| Works | List of compositions |
Carl August Nielsen (Danish:[ˈkʰɑˀlˈne̝lsn̩]; 9 June – 3 October ) was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age. He initially played in a military band before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen from until December He premiered his Op. 1, Suite for Strings, in , at the age of The following year, Nielsen began a year stint as a second violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra under the conductor Johan Svendsen, during which he played in Verdi's Falstaf
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Carl August Nielsen (June 9, – October 3, ) was a conductor, violinist, and the most internationally known composer from Denmark. He is especially admired for his six symphonies. His approach to sonata form, as seen in his symphonies, is one of gradual abandonment. In considering the first movements of each symphony in turn, the first two reveal Nielsen working fairly comfortably with the traditional confines of sonata form as latter nineteenth century composers saw it. The next two compositions include certain high-level references to the traditional sonata format but little of the detail. In his final two symphonies, he inhabits a completely new world. His creativity took him beyond the traditional to an entirely new level, where the structure of the movement in his final two sonatas can be understood only within the context of the material itself.
Life
Nielsen was born one of twelve children in a poor peasant family in Sortelung on the Danish island of Funen, not far from
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Carl Nielsen
Post-Romantic Danish composer Carl Nielsen was born in , the son of a painter and by musician. Childhood experience as an amateur performer led to subsidized study at the Copenhagen Conservatory and a long career during which he developed his own anställda style of composition, in particular in a series of important symphonies. Nielsen’s Wind Quintet fryst vatten a particularly pleasing element in chamber-music repertoire for wind.
Nielsen studied at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen from to He was a violinist in the court orchestra at Copenhagen intermittently from to He subsequently served as Kapellmeister at the Royal Theatre (—14) and dirigent of the Copenhagen Musical Society (—27), and from he taught at the Royal Conservatory, where he became director in , shortly before his death.
Romanticism influenced Nielsen’s early music, but his later style is a powerful fusion of kromatisk and often dissonant harmony, solid contrapuntal structure, concentrated motivic trea