Anne-Marie Ørbeck

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Anne-Marie Ørbeck

Anne-Marie Ørbeck (born April 1, 1911 in Oslo ; † June 5, 1996 in Bergen ) was a Norwegian composer and pianist .

Life

Ørbeck studied in Oslo and Berlin with Sandra Droucker , Gustav Lange , Mark Lothar and Paul Höffer . In the 1950s she supplemented her studies with Nadia Boulanger and Darius Milhaud in Paris and with Hanns Jelinek in Vienna. She made her debut as a pianist in 1933 with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra , and in 1938, also with her as a soloist, her first major composition, the Concertino for piano and orchestra, was presented in Berlin. With the world premiere of her symphony in D major in 1954 in Bergen, she established herself as the first Norwegian female symphonist. Her compositional work includes orchestral works, chamber and piano music as well as songs and romances. Despite her preoccupation with the twelve-tone technique , her style always remained tonal and moderately modern.

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  1. a b Detailed biography in Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)
  2. ^ Karin Pendle: Women and Music. A history . 2nd Edition. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, ISBN 0-253-33819-0 , pp. 274 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed December 4, 2019]).
  3. Catalog raisonné at bergenbibliotek.no
  4. Stylistic classification on bergenbibliothek.no