Vagn Holmboe
Vagn Gylding Holmboe (born December 20, 1909 in Horsens, Jutland , † September 1, 1996 in Ramløse ) was a Danish composer .
Life
Holmboe began - on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen - his music studies at the age of 17 at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen with Knud Jeppesen (theory) and Finn Høffding (composition). After the final exam in 1929, he moved to Berlin, where Ernst Toch taught him. From 1933 to 1934 a study visit to Romania followed, where he also married the Romanian pianist Meta Graf . Back in Denmark, the young family initially supported themselves through music lessons. Winning the Scandinavian competition of the Copenhagen Royal Chapel with his 2nd symphony in 1939 marked his breakthrough as a composer. From 1950 to 1965 Holmboe taught at the Conservatory in Copenhagen. The Danish composers Ib Nørholm (* 1931) and Per Nørgård (* 1932) are among his most important students .
Works
Holmboe's musical output comprises nearly 200 works with opus numbers, including an opera, 13 symphonies and 21 string quartets (the 21st quartet, entitled Quartetto sereno , was completed by his student Per Nørgård). There are also solo concerts for almost all of the instruments in the symphony orchestra, chamber music in various scoring, numerous works for choir a cappella and songs. In collaboration with the guitarist Maria Kämmerling, he also composed some works for guitar.
Holmboe is considered Denmark's most important symphonic composer after Carl Nielsen . Characteristic of his overall tonal music is a technique that he himself described as metamorphic : simple musical fragments at the beginning of the work experience an organic development (in some cases similar to Jean Sibelius ). Influences of folk music from Southeastern Europe (such as Béla Bartók ) are particularly evident in earlier works, but suggestions from Nielsen, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich can also be felt.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vagn Holmboe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vagn Holmboe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Work introduction by Christoph Schlüren ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Michael Fjeldsøe: Holmboe, Vagn. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 9 (Himmel - Kelz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1119-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Catalog of works at classicalarchives.com
- Martin Anderson: Obituary Vagn Holmboe. In: The Independent . September 3, 1996, accessed April 7, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erling Møldrup: Guitar music in Denmark. (Translated by Jan Thomsen) In: Guitar & Laute 6, 1984, Heft 2, pp. 34–41; here: p. 37.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holmboe, Vagn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holmboe, Vagn Gylding (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horsens, Jutland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1996 |
| Place of death | Ramløse |