Knudåge Riisager

Knudåge Riisager ( born March 6, 1897 in Kunda, Estonia, † December 26, 1974 in Copenhagen) was a Danish composer.

Riisager was born in a Danish family in Estonia. His father Emil initiated in Kunda cement factory.

Riisager studied in Copenhagen political science and beside music at Otto Malling and Peder Gram. He continued his musical education at Paul le Flem and Albert Roussel in Paris. There he came up with the Groupe des Six in touch and learned the compositions by Igor Stravinsky know. In 1932, he completed his training with Hermann Grabner in Leipzig.

From 1926 to 1947 Riisager was an official in Copenhagen from 1956 to 1967 he headed the Conservatory. He composed stage and symphonic works, concertos, chamber music and songs and wrote several musicological writings.

Honors

Works

  • Erasmus Montanus, Overture, 1920
  • Quatre Epigrammes for piano, 1921
  • String Quartet no 3, 1922
  • Sonata for Violin, 1923
  • Sinfonietta pour huit instruments a vent, 1924
  • Symfoni no 1, 1925
  • Variationer over tema et af Mezangeau, 1926
  • Sonata 1927
  • Symfoni no 2, 1927
  • Festelavn ( Shrovetide ) for orchestra, 1929-30
  • Gasoline (with Elna Jørgen-Jensen/Robert Storm Petersen ), Ballet, 1930
  • Cocktails Party (after Blaise Cendrars ), Ballet, 1930
  • Sonata for Piano, 1932
  • Concertino pour cinq violons et piano, 1933
  • Concerto for trompet above strygere ( Concerto for Trumpet and Strings ), 1933
  • Deux Morceaux for Piano, 1934
  • In the Occasion of for orchestra, 1934
  • Little Overture, 1934
  • En glad trompet og andre klaverstykker ( Happy Trumpet and other piano pieces ), 1935
  • Valse Lente, 1935
  • Darduse ( with Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ), Ballet, 1935-36
  • For the Children 's Party for Orchestra, 1936
  • Serenade, 1936
  • Slaraffenland Suite I, 1936
  • Partita, 1937
  • Maj for piano, 1939
  • Tolv med items ( with Børge Ralov ), Ballet, 1939
  • Slaraffenland for piano, 1940
  • Slaraffenland Suite II, 1940
  • Salme Dansk [ Danish Psalm ], 1942
  • Summer Rhapsody, 1943
  • Fugl Fønix ( phoenix, with Harald Lander ), Ballet, 1944-45
  • Niels Ebbesen, incidental music to the play by Kaj Munk, 1945
  • Etudes ( with Harald Lander ), ballet ( based on motifs from Carl Czerny Piano Studies ), 1947
  • Susanne, opera ( libretto by Mogens Lorentzen ), 1948
  • Violin Concerto, 1951
  • Månerenen ( The Moon Reindeer, Birgit Cullberg with ), Ballet, 1956
  • Lady from havet ( The Lady from the Sea, by Birgit Cullberg ), Ballet, 1959
  • Galla- Variationer ( Flemming Flindt with ), Ballet, 1966
  • Royal Ballet ( with Flemming Flindt ), 1967
  • Svinedrengen ( Flemming Flindt with ), Ballet, 1968

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