In classical music, it would be hard to find a greater individualist than Danish composer Rued Langgaard. Unlike his anti-romantic contemporaries bent on writing "new" music, Langgaard remained rooted ...

A hundred years ago, as the Machine Age was getting under way, and cinema was about to sweep the globe, many composers retreated into a dream. They wrote vast cloudy orchestral tableaux in which ...

It was György Ligeti's discovery of Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres, and his observation that it anticipated many of the techniques for which he was given credit more than 40 years later, that ...

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If the name Rued Langgaard means nothing to you, you're in good - or at least plentiful - company. Born in 1893, the Danish composer was a stranger even to his contemporaries, his music scorned and ...

The Dane Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) is one of those composers who doesn't fit easily into any conventional scheme of 20th-century music. Most of his music is unexceptionably late-Romantic but, in his ...

Andrew Mellor offers a guide to the Langgaard's 'singular reimagining of music’s parameters of time and space' At this year's Gramophone Awards the Nightingale String Quartet won the Young Artist of ...

Remembrances of Summer, 'Smaa Sommerminder' Berit Johansen Tange, Piano Rued Langgaard, Composer Music of the Abyss Berit Johansen Tange, Piano Rued Langgaard, Composer Albumleaf Rued Langgaard, ...

A chance to hear the romantic music of Rued Langgaard performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard - a passionate advocate for this Danish composer's ...

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