Poul Rovsing Olsen

Poul Rovsing Olsen

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About Poul Rovsing Olsen

(b Copenhagen, 4 Nov 1922; d there, 2 July 1982). Danish composer. He studied with Jeppesen at the Copenhagen Conservatory (1943-6) and with Boulanger and Messiaen in Paris (1948-9), then worked in Copenhagen as a music critic. His early works showed the influences of Bartók, Stravinsky and Nielsen, joined in the 1950s by 12-note serialism, but from the 1960s his music began to reflect his work as a musical ethnologist (A L′inconnu for voice and 13 instruments

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