DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Improvisation in the classical world and beyond, including contributions from David Arditti, James Lewitzke, James Ross and Steve Vasta.
VIDEO PODCAST: Women Composers - Our special hour-long illustrated feature on women composers includes contributions from Diana Ambache, Gail Wein, Hilary Tann, Natalie Artemas-Polak and Victoria Bond.
Danish composer and ethnomusicologist Poul Rovsing Olsen was born on 4 November 1922 in Copenhagen. He studied with Knud Jeppesen, Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen.
His output as a composer, embracing chamber music, opera, orchestral works, piano music and songs, was influenced first by Bartók, Nielsen and Stravinsky, and then came a period where he used serialism. His later music showed the influence of his ethnomusicological work in Bahrain and the Persian Gulf, and also Greenland.
Poul Rovsing Olsen died on 2 July 1982, aged fifty-nine.
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