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Vagn Holmboe was born on 20 December, 1909, is an A danish male classical composers. Discover Vagn Holmboe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?
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Vagn Gylding Holmboe (, 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher.
Vagn Holmboe was born in Horsens, Jutland, into a merchant family of dedicated amateur musicians.
Both parents played the piano.
His father earned his living as a maker of colours and lacquers at Horsens.
From the age of 14 Vagn Holmboe took violin lessons.
During his time in the German capital he met the Romanian-born pianist and visual artist Meta May Graf (1910–2003) from Sibiu/Hermannstadt.
His last work, the 21st string quartet, Quartetto Sereno, was completed by his pupil Per Nørgård.
In 1926, at the age of 16, he began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen.
He studied under Knud Jeppesen (theory) and Finn Høffding (composition).
After finishing his studies in 1929 he moved to Berlin where for a short period Ernst Toch became his teacher.
She had studied at the Musikhochschule Berlin since 1929, with Paul Hindemith as one of her teachers.
The couple married in 1933 and left Berlin for Romania, where they visited obscure and remote villages and studied Transylvanian folk-song.
Subsequently, they moved to Denmark, settling in the capital, Copenhagen, in 1934.
While his wife Meta gave up her musical career to pursue her passions in the visual arts, photography in particular, Vagn gave music lessons privately and began composing during this period.
Many of the early compositions have never been performed.
Similar to the research he had already done in Romania, he pursued his studies of folk-song with much field-work throughout Denmark including the Faroes and Greenland.
Many overtly folk-linked compositions, including the Inuit Songs, are a result of these activities.
Vagn and his wife Meta had bought a piece of land at Lake Arresø in Ramløse/Zealand in 1940, where they set up a farm, "Arre Boreale" (Latin for Northern Arresø), in the 1950s and spent the rest of their lives together there.
His choral or brass music, or his wind Notturno from 1940 may be performed more often than his works for full or chamber orchestra.
Private tapes exist of performances of Holmboe's music; these were made by Nikolai Malko and by Fritz Mahler among others.
From 1941 to 1949 he was a teacher at the Royal Institute for the Blind, and from 1950 to 1965 he taught at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen, being appointed a Professor there in 1955.
Prior to that he had also worked as a music critic for the Danish daily Politiken from 1947 to 1955.
Musical metamorphosis of thematic or motivic fragments characterize most of his works between the years 1950 and 1970; in this regard his music is similar to that written by Jean Sibelius earlier in the twentieth century.
His earlier works show the influence of East European composers such as Béla Bartók; his work also shows the influence of Igor Stravinsky, Carl Nielsen and Dmitri Shostakovich.
(M.—Meta number—for Metamorphosis. Might also be said to be named after his wife, Meta May Holmboe... numbering system assembled by Prof. )
Ten Preludes for Sinfonietta
Concertos: (about twenty, including especially):
Commercial recordings of his symphonies by Owain Arwel Hughes are still available, as are recordings of his Ten Preludes for Sinfonietta (1986-1991), string quartets, chamber concertos, and some other works.
Vagn Holmboe was a keen nature-lover who lived in the countryside until his death in 1996 and over the years personally planted 3000 trees on his land.
Holmboe composed about 370 works, including 13 symphonies, three chamber symphonies, four symphonies for strings, 20 string quartets, numerous concertos, one opera, and the late series of 10 Preludes for chamber orchestra, as well as much choral and other music, in addition to some early works that never received opus numbers.