Else Marie Pade

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Else Marie Pade (born December 2, 1924 in Aarhus , † January 18, 2016 in Gentofte Kommune ) was a Danish composer .

Life

Pade was trained as a pianist at the Kongelige Danske Music Conservatory in Copenhagen . She studied composition first with Vagn Holmboe and later with Jan Maegaard , from whom she learned twelve-tone music .

In 1954 she became the first Danish female composer of electronic and concrete music (Bruland 2001). She worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as with Pierre Boulez .

Pade was active in the resistance during World War II and was interned in Frøslev internment camp from 1944 until the end of the war .

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