Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (21 November 1932 – 27 June 2016) was a Danish composer.
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of the sculptor Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, with Finn Høffding, Svend Westergaard, Bjørn Hjelmborg, and Vagn Holmboe (instrumentation), graduating in 1958.[1]
Amongst other works, he composed fourteen string quartets and a Concerto Grosso for string quartet and orchestra, written for the Kronos Quartet, which he referred to as "Vivaldi on Safari".[2]
He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1980 for his Symfoni/Antifoni.
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen died of cancer on 26 June 2016, aged 83.[3]
References
- ↑ (Jakobsen 2001)
- ↑ (Cornelius 2016)
- ↑ (Lohse 2016)