Bent Lorentzen

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Bent Lorentzen (11 February 1935 – 3 October 2018) was a Danish composer. He was one of the outstanding figures in contemporary Danish music. His works are frequently performed at festivals at home and abroad, and he has established particularly close links with musical life in Poland and Germany. He has been honoured with several international prizes and was named Choral Composer of the Year in Denmark in 1989. Bent Lorentzen was born in Stenvad, a village on Djursland, East Jutland. He studied musicology at the university in Aarhus and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He was a pupil of Knud Jeppesen, Finn Høffding, Vagn Holmboe and Jørgen Jersild. After his final examination he taught at the Academies of Music in Aarhus and Copenhagen for several years. Lorentzen was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of Danish electronic music (The Bottomless Pit in 1972 for the Nordic Music Days in Oslo, and Visions 1978), which was also introduced with an educational aim: the LP Elektronmusikkens materiale [The Material of Electronic Music, 1968] and the LP Water – electronic music for children, 1968. Lorentzen's orchestral music includes concertos for oboe (1980), cello (1984), piano (1984), saxophone (1986), trumpet (1991) and violin (2001); his chamber music comprises solo works for organ, piano, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, guitar, violin, cello and double-bass, as well as string quartets and works with mixed ensembles (2-12 instruments). He also compos

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Electronic Music

Lorentzen: Piano Concerto / Italian Concerto / Hunting Concerto

Erotic Hymns

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Pioneers - The Beginning of Danish Electronic Music

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An Introduction to Electronic Music

Lorentzen: Colori / Goldranken / Nachtigall / Abgrund / Five Easy Piano Pieces

Lorentzen: Oboe Concerto / Regenbogen

Lorentzen: Organ Music

Dansk Orgelmusik i 400 ar

Music for Double Bass

Concertos

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The Bottomless Pit · Visions · Cloud-Drift

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