Else Marie Pade

Denmark, b. 1924.

Studied the piano from early years, later in private lessons with Karen Brieg. Working in the resistance movement during the Second World War, interned. Piano student 1946 at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, moved on to composition.

In 1952 Else Marie Pade heard about Pierre Schaeffer and his music on Danish radio and she contacted him and went to Paris to visit him. She got inspired and began to study the aesthetics of musique concrète and became the first Danish composer involved in musique concrète as well as electronic music. The piece Seven circles from 1958 is the first Danish piece of electroacoustic music ever played. It was broadcast in 1959 by Danish Radio.

Ever since childhood Else Marie Pade has experimented with what she calls her “inner space”.

/LARM

A book about Else Marie Pade, Else Marie Pade: Livet i et glasperlespil, edited by Hans Sydow www.resonance.dk

Links:

http://www.hammondonmymind.dk/pade.htm

http://www.mfsk.dk/pages/udstillinger.php?id=7