History of Music in Denmark

The most Denmark popular classical composer is Carl Nielsen, who is especially remembered for his six symphonies while the Royal Danish Ballet was specialized in the wok of the Danish choreographer, which is August Bournonville. Danes have separated themselves as the jazz musicians and the Copehagen jazz festival has gained an international standard. The recent pop and rock scene has produced a few number of note that include D-A-D, Tina Dico, Aqua, the Raveonettes, Michael Learns to Rock, Alphabeat, Safri Duo, Medina, Oh Land, Kashmir and Mew, all together, Lars Ulrich who became the first Danish musician to be inaugurated  into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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The earliest line of the Danish music went back to the many of the twisting Bronze Age horns or lurs that was created in different parts of the Scandinavia bust mostly in Denmark since the end of the 18^th century and some of the professionals have identified as musical instrument.

 In his Gesta Danorum, the historian Saxo Grammaticus denotes that the power the music had over King Erik and is the Kind-Hearted, in the 13^th and the early 14^th centuries, the German messengers like the Tannhauser and Frauenlob sang in the Danish courts. The Codex Runicus that contain a verse that was written in runes with a non-rhythmic music notation, which the first line is Dromdae mik aen drom I nat (I dreamed Me a Dream Last Night), also there are proofs that English monks came to Denmark top music at a celebration commemorating St Canute, who died in the year 1086. In the year 1145, Lud Cathedral received Scandinavia’s first choir statues and in 1330 it was one of the largest churches to have installed an organ.