David Monrad Johansen
50 top tracks
David Monrad Johansen
50 top tracks
Albums
Fedrenes fjell
David Monrad Johansen
The Long, Long Winter Night
David Monrad Johansen
Classical Harmonica
David Monrad Johansen
Johansen: Orchestral Works
David Monrad Johansen
David Monrad Johansen: Piano Works; Symphonic Variations and Fugue; Pan
David Monrad Johansen
David Monrad Johansen: Chamber Music
David Monrad Johansen
Piano Concertos & Pan
David Monrad Johansen
Grieg: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 2 / Johansen: String Quartet Op. 35
David Monrad Johansen
David Monrad Johansen: Samtlige Sanger
David Monrad Johansen
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David Monrad Johansen
Scandinavia
David Monrad Johansen
Tre mannskor til tekster av Ivar Aasen, Op. 19: No. 3, Gamle Norig
David Monrad Johansen
Biography
David Monrad Johansen was educated in Oslo and Berlin, and around 1920 travelled on a scholarship to Paris in order to study the newer trends of European music-Debussy,Ravel,Stravinsky. He was also a great admirer of Edvard Grieg,about whom he wrote a fine biography, and became a important crtic in Oslo. He composed a several large-scale works with texts from Norse Literatur. In 1930s, aftar an extended stay in Berlin studying counterpoint, he began to learn more towards neo-classicism. <a href=...Read more on Last.fm
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David Monrad Johansen was educated in Oslo and Berlin, and around 1920 travelled on a scholarship to Paris in order to study the newer trends of European music-Debussy,Ravel,Stravinsky. He was also a great admirer of Edvard Grieg,about whom he wrote a fine biography, and became a important crtic in Oslo. He composed a several large-scale works with texts from Norse Literatur. In 1930s, aftar an extended stay in Berlin studying counterpoint, he began to learn more towards neo-classicism. His most famous work from that time is Pan for orchestra (1939) inspired by Knut Hamsun`s novel.
Monrad Jihansen was a fine pianist and wrote well for his instrument. The suite "Nordlandsbilder" was written in 1918 and 1919,and its first movement is a kind of m musical porttrait of a heroine from a Norwegian Novel. "The little stone god" is a reflection on a service of an obscure Christian sect. Tough "Reindeer" is not, in teh composers words, "an objective despriction" of a large herd of deer, it nevertheless illustrates in musical terms how the deer become frightened,scatter,and then come together again,before disappearing,leaving only their hoof marsk behind. The last movement "mot fedrenes fjell" ( Towards the mountains of my forefathers)evokes one`s feeling returning to Nordland <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/David+Monrad+Johansen">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
