Etudes is a ballet of mounting excitement as choreographer Harald Lander takes the audience and the dancers through the progress of classical dance technique culminating in a spectacular finale of...
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Knudåge Riisager (1897-1874). Danish composer
Knudåge Riisager was a Danish composer who worked in administration alongside his prolific work as a composer and musicologist. He studied composition with Otto Malling and Peter Gram, before meeting Albert Roussel and Paul Le Flem in Paris in1923. There, he experienced the contemporary French neoclassical style of music and incorporated it into his own works. In 1928 Riisager began to collaborate with Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre, composing the music for choreographer Elna Jørgen-Jensen’s Benzin, and continuing with Tolv med Posten (1942), Slaraffenland (1942) and Qarrtsiluni (1942). These works established Riisager as one of the most recognisable composers of his generation in Denmark. His notable arrangement of Carl Czerny’s piano Études for choreographer Harald Lander’s Etudes (1948) earned him international fame.