# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:23:20.915Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born to poor but musical parents on Funen in 1865, Nielsen played in a military band before entering the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1884. He premiered his Suite for Strings at 23, then took a second violin chair in the Royal Danish Orchestra in 1889, playing under Johan Svendsen for sixteen years while composing on the side. The works from 1897 to 1904 — his "psychological" period — reflected a turbulent marriage to sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen. He taught at the Academy from 1916 until his death, writing six symphonies, a Wind Quintet, and concertos that broke from Brahms and Grieg into progressive tonality and stranger territory. His final symphony, Sinfonia semplice, came in 1924–25. He died of a heart attack in 1931, a musical outsider in life, buried in Vestre Cemetery while the world caught up later.