Niels Viggo Bentzon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Niels Viggo Bentzon

Danish composer

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1919

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 25-Apr-2000

Profession: composer, pianist, choreographer

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Niels Viggo Bentzon (Copenhagen, 24 August 1919 – Copenhagen, 25 April 2000) was a Danish composer and pianist. Bentzon was descended from Johan Ernst Hartmann and the great-grandson of J.P.E.
Hartmann.
From 1938 to 1942, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Knud Jeppesen and Christian Christiansen.
He then taught at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (1945–50) and at The Royal Danish Academy (1950–88). His compositions extend to 664 opus numbers, including 24 symphonies, operas, ballets, concertos, string quartets, and many piano works.
Arguably the most significant of these are the 14 separate sets of 24 preludes and fugues, collectively known as "The Tempered Piano", which represents a 20th-century example of music written in all 24 major and minor keys.



Description	Danish photographer
Date of birth/death	18 November 1935	14 January 2018
Location of birth	Copenhagen
Authority control	: Q689120 VIAF: 85027074 ISNI: 0000 0001 1772 9226 LCCN: n00027928 GND: 122067223 SUDOC: 052485188 WorldCat