Westergaard, Svend
Westergaard, Svend
Westergaard, Svend, Danish composer and pedagogue; b. Copenhagen, Oct. 8,1922; d. Hillerd, near Copenhagen, June 22, 1988. He studied composition with Hffding, Hjelmborg, and Jersild at the Copenhagen Cons. He began teaching there in 1951, serving as a prof. of theory (from 1967) and also its director (1967-71). He publ. the study Harmonilaere (Copenhagen, 1961).
Works
orch: Elegy for Strings (1949); Pezzo sinfonico (1950); Oboe Concerto (1950); 2 syms.: No. 1, Sinfonia (1955) and No. 2, Sinfonia da camera (1968); L’Homme arme, canzona for 16 Instruments (1959; rev. for Orch., 1970); Capriccio for Violin and String Orch. (1960); Variazioni sinfoniche (Danish Radio, June 12, 1960); Cello Concerto (1961; Àrhus, Oct. 22, 1962; rev. 1973); Pezzo concertante (Danish Radio, Aug. 19, 1965); Sinfonia da camera (Copenhagen, March 24, 1969); Varianti sinfoniche for Winds and Percussion (1972); Transformazioni sinfonische for Piano and Orch. (1976; Danish Radio, Oct. 27, 1977). CHAMBER: 2 wind quintets (1948, 1949); Tema con variazioni for Clarinet Quintet (1949); String Quartet (1968); Sonata for Solo Flute (1971); Sonata for Solo Cello (1979).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire