Otto Mortensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Mortensen

Danish composer

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1907

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

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1986

Profession: composer, pianist, musicologist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Otto Hübertz Mortensen (18 August 1907 – 30 August 1986) was a Danish composer and conductor.
He also played the organ and piano.
For a number of years he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre as a rehearser for the opera, and later worked at Aarhus University. As a composer, Mortensen composed both vocal works and instrumental music.
He is most famous for arranging countless choral works and for writing the melodies for a number of Danish songs, e.g.
Septembers himmel, Min skat, Sommervise (Du danske sommer jeg elsker dig…), and the Norwegian Kringsatt av fiender (lyrics by Nordahl Grieg).
In the years leading up to his death, he worked on new melodies to a number of psalms, e.g.
At sige verden ret farvel. The melody for the poem by Helge Rode, Du gav os de blomster, som lyste imod os, was selected by the Danish Ministry of Culture in 2006 as one of 12 songs to be a part of the Canon of Culture (Danish: Kulturministeriets Kulturkanon) in the category musical scores.