Death of a Danish pioneer, 91

Death of a Danish pioneer, 91

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norman lebrecht

January 19, 2016

Else Marie Pade, imprisoned under the German occupation, became an electronic music pioneer after a 1952 meeting in Darmstadt with the musique concrète inventor, Pierre Schaeffer.

Her 1959 breakthrough work, â€˜Symphonie magnetophonique’, is composed entirely of everyday sounds.

 

Else Marie Pade

More here (in Danish).

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