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Something wrong?Denmark's most prominent composer spent sixteen years playing second violin in the national orchestra while writing symphonies that wouldn't crack the international repertoire until decades after his death.
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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.
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