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Per Norgard (b. July 13, 1932 in Gentofte, Denmark) is a Danish composer.
Norgard studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe. In the 1960s, Nogard began exploring the modernist techniques of central Europe, eventually developing a serial compositional system based on the "infinity series" (Norgard 1975), which he used in his Voyage into the Golden Screen, the Second and Third Symphonies, I Ching, and other works of the late 1960s and 70s.
Norgard has composed works in all major genres: six operas, two ballets, seven symphonies and other pieces for orchestra, several concertos, choral and vocal works, an enormous number of chamber works, ten string quartets and several solo instrumental works. These include a number of works for the guitar, mostly written for the Danish guitarist Erling Moldrup.
Norgard is also a prolific writer. He has written many articles dealing with music not only from a technical but also a philosophical viewpoint.
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