Per Nørgård

Born July 13, 1932· Gentofte, Denmark

† Died May 28, 2025

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Emerging from a musical family in Gentofte, he began piano studies early and later refined his compositional technique under Vagn Holmboe, Finn Høffding and Herman David Koppel at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, with additional mentorship from Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His output spanned all major genres, but film scoring brought his music to wider audiences through works such as the atmospheri… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources