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Nicolai Worsaae
Composer
Nicolai Worsaae (1980–) studied composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Bent Sørensen, Niels Rosing-Schow, Hans Abrahamsen, and Hans-Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg, as well as at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz with Beat Furrer.
His early works have been described as lyrical, while his more recent compositions are characterized as direct and expressive. Worsaae himself asserts a fundamental identification with the narrative form of “classical music.” Nevertheless, in recent years he has moved further away from the lyrical and narrative, turning more decisively toward modernism. “Hardcore modernists will certainly insist that my music remains highly narrative, but I simply cannot refrain from storytelling.”