Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Mortensen 60
- Evolution, op. 23, for orchestra
- Kortfattet innføring i tolvtoneteknikk og serialisme
- Quintet for wind instruments, op. 4. Score
- Sonatina, no. 2, op. 2, piano
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Norway
- Active from
- 1922-01-06
- Active to
- 1983-05-23
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- 709
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Finn Mortensen (January 6, 1922 - May 23, 1983) was a Norwegian composer, critic and educator. Finn Einar Mortensen was born in Oslo. His parents were publisher Ernst Gustav Mortensen (1887–1966) and Anna Marie Damnæs (1886–1960). Mortensen grew up in a publishing environment and it was at first expected that he would go into his father's publishing firm, Ernst G. Mortensens Forlag A/S. He studied harmony with Thorleif Eken (1900-1955), composition with Klaus Egge and with Niels Viggo Bentzon
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Einar
- Family name
- Mortensen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Christiania
- Place of death
- Oslo
- Occupation
- music critic
- Educated at
- Oslo Conservatory of Music
- Employer
- Norwegian Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Student of
- Klaus Egge
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of death
- 1983-05-21
- date of birth
- 1922-01-06
- place of burial
- Vestre gravlund
- name in native language
- Finn Mortensen
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