Famous classical musicians with the name carl
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Carl Nielsen
Danish composer (–)
For other uses, see Carl Nielsen (disambiguation).
Carl Nielsen | |
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| Born | ()9 June Sortelung, Denmark |
| Died | 3 October () (aged&#;66) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, and violinist |
| Works | List of compositions |
Carl August Nielsen (Danish:[ˈkʰɑˀlˈne̝lsn̩]; 9 June – 3 October ) was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age. He initially played in a military band before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen from until December He premiered his Op. 1, Suite for Strings, in , at the age of The following year, Nielsen began a year stint as a second violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra under the conductor Johan Svendsen, during which he played in Verdi's Falstaff and Otello at their Danish premieres. In , he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Academy and continued to work there until his death.
Although his symphonies, concertos and choral music are now internationally acclaimed, Nielsen's career and personal life were marked by many difficultie
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Carl Nielsen
Post-Romantic Danish composer Carl Nielsen was born in , the son of a painter and village musician. Childhood experience as an amateur performer led to subsidized study at the Copenhagen Conservatory and a long career during which he developed his own personal style of composition, in particular in a series of important symphonies. Nielsen’s Wind Quintet is a particularly pleasing element in chamber-music repertoire for wind.
Nielsen studied at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen from to He was a violinist in the court orchestra at Copenhagen intermittently from to He subsequently served as Kapellmeister at the Royal Theatre (—14) and conductor of the Copenhagen Musical Society (—27), and from he taught at the Royal Conservatory, where he became director in , shortly before his death.
Romanticism influenced Nielsen’s early music, but his later style is a powerful fusion of chromatic and often dissonant harmony, solid contrapuntal structure, concentrated motivic treatment, and bold extensions of tonality with frequent polytonal passages. His six symphonies, written between and , are forceful works that feature decisively articulated tonal progressions. The best known of these symphonies are Symphony No. 2 (; The Four Temperaments), Symphony No. 3 (; Sinf