Rued Langgaard

  • Danish rivalry

    Rued Langgaard was, initially anyway, an admirer of Carl Nielsen; but, as time went on and Nielsen’s international fame grew, Langgaard (whose compositions had been, for the most part ignored, even [especially?] in his native Denmark) came to dislike Nielsen’s music and to view it as the root cause of all that was of poor…

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