Considered the father of Danish contemporary music, he aspired to works in which “everything came out of a single note,” he said, “like the big bang.”
Category: Sibelius, Jean
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Leif Segerstam, Provocative Finnish Conductor and Composer, Dies at 80
He led his country’s principal orchestras and major orchestras elsewhere in Europe. He also mystified his countrymen with an unstoppable flow of symphonies.