Else Marie Pade (Aarhus, December 2, 1924)
Else start taking piano lessons in secret, under the guidance of a teacher of Music in Aarhus. The parents would have preferred a career for her daughter quiet and serene but the aspirations of Else were very distant from those of a receptionist in Denmark of the Second World War. The teacher introduces the plan soon to the environments of Resistance: unfortunately the two are captured by the Gestapo and only 19 years Else is found to spend eight months in prison camp Frøslev Lejre. It was 1944. At the camp
Else has the opportunity to meet some people can understand her deep interest in music, these illustrious patrons of the monthly grant an annuity to finance studies at the Music Academy.
Else From 1946 to '49, he moved to Copenhagen where he attended piano lessons at the conservatory. After graduating continues to deepen their knowledge under the guidance of Vagn Holmboe. In a night of 1951 will hear a speech by Pierre Schaeffer in the radio show "Horisont": the soul of musique concrète explained the new theory of music "sound universe." Else is so impressed by what the teacher that he decided to travel to Paris to meet him. In 1952, the two are linked by a strong friendship.
After a summer afternoon spent at the Bakken park in Deer Park, where musicians performed the Stravinsky of Petrushka outdoor Else decides to make a documentary for Danmarks Radio. The result is a soundtrack of the sounds of the park, music and nature sounds, reissued electronically. The work, "One day at Dyrehavsbakken" (1954-55), is not well received by the Danish public, very closed compared to the avant-garde:
"People Were indignant That I allowed myself to call it music."
Despite the savage criticism, Else continues his research in sound. Leans Holger Laurdsen, also occupied at Danmarks Radio, in contact with the circle of Werner Meyer-Eppler and is interested in electronic music. The two begin their journey together in the musique concrete. Holger teaches the basic techniques and, through them, Else creates a soundtrack for the radio drama "Looking for a ghost" (1956). The couple, who previously had used the lab to the radio, you put in own and builds a recording studio with equipment imported from abroad. Around the two formed a circle of technicians, writers and enthusiasts dedicated to plays and discussions about cutting-edge music. Stockhausen, Ernst Krenek and Herbert Eimert often visit the group holding seminars. The Danish composers do not take kindly to the work of Else and baby club, much less accepted theories of Schaeffer and Stockhausen: All the trends are removed from the Conservatives. If Denmark was not at all interested in the work of Elesa, Stockhausen and Boulez are calling on the tape to listen to students during the lessons that the two held in Europe. The works were delivered to teachers' SYV circler "(Seven Circles), the first electronic work ever done in Denmark, and" Glasperlespillet "(The Glass Bead Game). In 1958, the Universal Exhibition in Brussels, meets Else Berio and Maderna. Later met John Cage. Since 1957, things start to get complicated: the sudden death of Holger amplifies the loneliness and isolation of Else. In 1958 he produced "Symphonie magnétophonique", a composition of 19 minutes played for the first time at the Danish Radio in 1959. The paper describes a symphonic journey in modern civilization with the means of concrete music: sounds taken from everyday life, mixed with those made in the studio or those taken from the archives of Lauridsen. La situazione precipita nel 1960 quando Else divorzia dal marito Henning Pade: non poteva davvero fare a tempo pieno la produttrice, la madre single e la compositrice di musica elettronica in un paese a lei davvero ostile:
“The fact that I was a female composer - which was obviously rather unusual at the time - was not perceived as a problem by anyone. In Denmark, on the other hand, I often felt a bit ridiculed as a female composer. Even my own husband was bothered by my creating music. One might say that I was doubly isolated in Danish composer circles, partly as a composer of electronic music, partly as a woman.” Else Marie Pade
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