Poul Knudsen

Emerging from the Danish literary milieu, Poul Knudsen pursued a career that blended symbolist and exotic motifs with the performing arts. His early collaboration with the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius produced the tragic ballet-pantomime Scaramouche in 1911, though the work’s debut was postponed and the libretto later judged weak. A later partnership with Leevi Madetoja yielded the one-act Japan… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources