A hundred years ago, as the Machine Age was getting under way, and cinema was about to sweep the globe, many composers retreated into a dream. They wrote vast cloudy orchestral tableaux in which ...

In classical music, it would be hard to find a greater individualist than Danish composer Rued Langgaard. Unlike his anti-romantic contemporaries bent on writing "new" music, Langgaard remained rooted ...

If the name Rued Langgaard means nothing to you, you're in good - or at least plentiful - company. Born in 1893, the Danish composer was a stranger even to his contemporaries, his music scorned and ...

It was György Ligeti's discovery of Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres, and his observation that it anticipated many of the techniques for which he was given credit more than 40 years later, that ...

Andrew Mellor offers a guide to the Langgaard's 'singular reimagining of music’s parameters of time and space' At this year's Gramophone Awards the Nightingale String Quartet won the Young Artist of ...

Michael Dervan reports on the Danish stage première of Antikrist, the sole opera by Rued Langgaard. Some of the more remarkable of musical undertakings remain all but unknown to the general public. In ...

I’d heard on the grapevine that a symphony by Rued Langgaard was being played at this year’s Proms, but I have to admit my heart sank slightly when I discovered it was his 11th, Ixion. Six months ago, ...

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