Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (born November 21, 1932 in Copenhagen - † June 27, 2016 ) was a Danish composer .
life and work
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen and made her first works in 1955. His early works are influenced by Carl Nielsen , Vagn Holmboe , Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinski . Around 1960 he approached the Darmstadt serial music (as did the composers Per Nørgård and Ib Nørholm ) and was influenced by Pierre Boulez , Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti .
At the end of the decade, his style evolved into a "new simplicity". Reduction and minimalism, including repetitions, characterize Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's music, right up to “absurd provocation”. He found the idea of absurdity in the works of Samuel Beckett , which he discovered for himself in the 1950s. His music also draws inspiration from Gregorian chant , baroque music, jazz, Greek and Spanish folk music, John Cage and Edgard Varèse . He found inspiration outside of music in the American Pop Art of Robert Rauschenberg .
His “Symfoni / Antifoni” (1978) was awarded the Music Prize of the Nordic Council and included in the 2006 Danish Cultural Canon . Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has also written nine string quartets , pieces for piano and organ, chamber music, concertos for cello and piano, ensemble and orchestral music.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen lived and worked in Copenhagen and on the island of Samsø .
Web links
- Works by and about Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen ( memento from March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Danish Composers' Association, accessed on August 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stor dansk composer er død af kræft DR from June 28, 2016 (Danish)
- ↑ Culture Canon, ed. Ministry of Culture, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-567-8050-8 , pp. 188 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Pelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 2016 |