Niels Viggo Bentzon

Niels Viggo Bentzon ( born August 24, 1919 in Copenhagen, † April 25, 2000 ) was a Danish composer and pianist.

The cousin of Jørgen Bentzon studied from 1938 to 1942 at the Conservatory of Copenhagen piano, organ and composition. He worked from 1947 in Aarhus and Copenhagen in 1949 as a teacher ( since 1950 at the Conservatory in Copenhagen).

The prolific composer - he left about six hundred works - took up the stylistic and technical innovations of modern music. In addition to several operas, six ballets, symphonies nineteen and numerous chamber music and instrumental works he composed pieces for prepared and tune piano, Apartments for Beat Ensemble, film, television and stage music and entertaining musical events Fluxus happenings.

Works

  • Faust III opera by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Kafka and James Joyce, 1964 UA Kiel Opera House, conductor Peter Ronnefeld
  • Machines, chamber opera by ETA Hoffmann, 1974
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