Axel Borup-Jorgensen

Borup-Jorgensen studied at the conservatory in Copenhagen and later worked as a piano teacher at the Else Printz Music School and also on a private basis. His early compositions were in a German Romantic style, but he soon moved toward impressionism. He later began to utilize complex rhythms, bitonality and eventually total atonality. One of his best works is the orchestral suite Marin (1970), based on his sea sketches. Mobiler, op. 38 was his first composition utilizing graphic notation. It is four movements that can be performed successively or simultaneously. ~ Lynn Vought