Ib Nørholm

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Ib Nørholm (born January 24, 1931 in Søborg ; † June 10, 2019 ) was a Danish composer .

Life

Nørholm played the piano at the age of nine, the organ at the age of fifteen and made his debut as a composer at the age of eighteen with a chamber opera based on Hans Christian Andersen . He then studied until 1956 at the Kongelige Danske Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen with Vagn Holmboe , Finn Høffding , Niels Viggo Bentzon and Bjørn Hjelmborg .

From 1965 he taught at the Fynske Music Conservatory in Odense, from 1973 as a lecturer and from 1981 until his retirement in 2000 as a professor at the Kongelige Danske Music Conservatory. From 1973 to 1978 he was head of the Danish committee of the International Society for New Music (IGNM) and was a board member of the Danish Composers Association.

plant

Nørholm's works from the 1950s were in the tradition of Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe. After taking part in the ISCM Festival in Cologne in 1960 - together with Per Nørgård , Helmer Nørgaard and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - he turned to avant-garde compositional styles such as serial music and aleatoric , under the influence of Stockhausen , Kagel , Boulez and Ligetis graphic notation and the use of mechanical jukeboxes. His piano trio opus 22 is considered the first serial composition by a Danish composer.

In his later works, Nørholm returned to a more tonal musical language. In addition to 13 symphonies, he composed instrumental concerts, operas, chamber music and choral works as well as songs. In collaboration with the guitarist Ingolf Olsen, he composed his first major work for guitar Tavole per Orfeo (op. 42).

Awards

Works

  • Sneglen og Rosenhækken , Opera, 1949
  • 1st Symphony , 1956–58
  • Mosaic for flute, violin, viola and cello, 1959
  • Variants for violin and piano, 1959
  • Piano Trio for piano, violin and cello, 1959
  • Kenotafium for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra, 1960–61
  • September-October-November , string quartet, 1961–62
  • Fluctuationer , 1961-62
  • Relief I-II , 1963
  • Exile , 1964
  • Invitation til Skafottet , Opera, 1965
  • Blomster af den danske poesis flora , for voice and piano, 1966
  • Stilleliv (five songs based on Poul Borum ), 1968
  • 2nd Symphony , 1968–71
  • Præludium til min vintermorgen for flute, violin, viola, cello and piano, 1971
  • 12 Sange , 1972-78
  • 3rd symphony , 1973
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra , 1974
  • Sonata quasi variazioni for violin, 1974
  • The Garden Wall , Opera, 1976
  • Sonata No. 1 for guitar, 1976
  • De Fynske Katarakter for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, 1976
  • Contrast Continuum for Flute Quartet, 1977
  • Så at sige for flute and percussion, 1978
  • 4th Symphony , 1978-79
  • Essai prismatique for violin, cello and piano, 1979
  • Lys (5 poems by Inger Christensen ), 1979
  • Before Silence for flute trio, 1980
  • 5th Symphony , 1980-81
  • A Discourse on Time for piano, 1980–82
  • 6th Symphony , 1981
  • 7th Symphony , 1982
  • Den ortodokse drøm for flute, cello and harpsichord, 1984
  • Lux Secunda for soprano, baritone and orchestra, 1984
  • Turbulens-Laminar for piano, 1984
  • Medusa's Shadow for flute, guitar, viola and cello, 1987
  • Concerto for cello and orchestra , 1989
  • Sonata No. 2 for guitar, 1989
  • 8th Symphony , 1990
  • 9th Symphony , 1990
  • Saxophone Quartet , 1992
  • 10th Symphony , 1998
  • Nu og Da for voices and string quartet, 2000–01
  • A Song of Breath and Wings for clarinet, 2002
  • Impressioner for mixed choir and piano, 2004
  • Jubilate Deo in Primavere for flute, saxophone and percussion, 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erling Møldrup: Guitar music in Denmark. (Translated by Jan Thomsen) In: Guitar & Laute 6, 1984, Heft 2, pp. 34–41; here: p. 37 f.
personal data
SURNAME Nørholm, Ib
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Søborg
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2019