Work for Solo Guitar dating from 1978.
Work for Solo Accordion dating from 1967. Requires an accordion with both Stradella Bass (120 Standard Bass) and a Free Bass manual (Barytone Bass). Incudes performance notes by Mogens Ellegaard.
For Harp.
Edited by Tine Rehling in collaboration with the composer.
Concertino for Harp and Thirteen Instruments.
Work for Solo Percussion dating from 1982.
Work for Violin and Piano dating from 1961.
Work for Violin and Piano dating from 1954.
Per Norgard PIANO CONCERTO 'Concerto in due Tempi' was composed 1994-95 and dedicated to Per Salo, the pianist who also gave the world premiere on May 5, 1996 with the Danish National Radio Symphony O...
Arcana was composed by Per Nørgård in 1970. Scored for Accordion, Electric Guitar and Percussion. Programme Note: Arcana means mysteries, secrets, but the score for this very successful work (which wa...
Work for SATB Chorus. 'Vintersalme'. English sung text.
Per Norgård's It's All His Fancy, That for Trumpet, Trombone and Piano. Score and parts.
A great collection of exercises and works for Percussion groups by Per Norgard.
Text by Rainer Maria Rilke Alternative versions: Choir and ensemble WH29326 Choir and piano
1983 For mixed choir SATBB Orig version 'Choral Hymn': WH32008 for SATB
Second work from 'Two Hans Christian Andersen Poems'. For SSA choir. Vocal Score.
Singing - Swinging - 2 songs for Equal Voices SSAA by Per Norgard. Texts in English by Sonja Dunn and Erik Knudsen. Composed for the Aarhus Girl's Choir and conductor Helle Hoyer in 2001.
I hear the rain, was composed for Mixed Chorus SATB and Percussion by Per Norgård, with lyrics by Michael Strunge.
Per Norgard's 2 Nocturnes - for 12 voices (2003) 1. Summer's Sleep (text: Ole Sarvig) 2. Michael's Night (text: Ib Michael) English version. Programme note: These two choral pieces for 12 voices consi...
For 8-Part Chorus, with Piano Reduction of Instrumental Parts.
Work for SATB Chorus. 'Winter Hymn'.
Per Norgard's setting of these sacred text for Mixed SATB chorus, dates back to 1983 and includes Agnus Dei, Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi and Dona Nobis Pacem.
The songs in this choral collection from 1991, when Norgard was honoured as Choral Composer of the Year (by the Danish Amateur Choral Association) are composed so that can be performed for equal voice...
The Maya Danses were composed between 1979 and 1983. Scored for SATB Chorus, this work features some amazing harmonies, which coupled with Ole Sarvig's text, creates a truly inspiring piece.
Work for SATB Chorus or SA Chorus and Percussion ad lib.
A playful and celebratory chorus with a waltz-time feel and oom-pah percussion accompaniment, by Per Norgard.
A slow and prolonged work for SATB Choir.
Work for SATB Choir and Percussion.
Gaudet Mater, composed by Per Nørgård in 1971, is for Choir SATB.
Work for SSATB chorus a cappella by Per Norgard.
Fragtment af Mariahymne fra det 13. århundrede Tekst: Anonym, på dansk ved ole Sarvig
Julens Glæde - Himmelfalden by Per Norgard, for Mixed Choir SATB (1985). Text by Johannes Mollehave. From Korbogen : WH30161
Work for Mixed Chorus. Text: Lars Lundkvist, Adolf Wolfli, Yunus Emre and Jorgen Gustava Brandt
Work for SATB Chorus A Cappella. German Text: Adolf Wolfli and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Four Latin motets (1991) for mixed choir SSATB (SSA) by Per Nørgård. Edited by Ivan Hansen. 1 Ne obsurdescas mihi (SSA/SAT), 2 Ad te Domineclamabo (SSATB), 3 Quam dilecta tabernacula...
1. 'The Native Land of Light' (for mixed chorus, SATB) 2. 'Come lift me up' (for mixed chorus, SATB *) *) the second movement may be performed by a children's chorus or by the female voices (SSA) fro...
Per Nørgård's Wölfli - A Discarded Misfit. Dramatic Choir Montage for an Actor/Recitator and Chamber Chorus (2007).
English version of the 1981 work translated by Andrew Smith.
Ad honorem Vagni Holmboi nominis Hyldest til Vagn Holmboe pa 50-ars födselsdagen den 20. december 1959
10 Danish Songs 1955-1987, for Voice and Piano (or keyboard) is a collection printed in 1989, consisting of earlier songs in new versions. Two songs are from 9 Danske Sange. Opus 14 (Overstået angst,...
Written on the suggestion of guitarist David Starobin as a 'tiny dance-like movement to go along with similar bagatelles from all over the world'. Norgard's intention was that this piece should be per...
Work for Solo Guitar written in 2001.
Work for Guitar Solo dating from 1976.
Work for Solo Guitar (with optional 'second hand') dating from 1981.
A sinister and expressive work for Solo Guitar dating from 1985.
Clubs Among Jokers is the third of four suites for solo Guitar collectively entitled Tales From A Hand, each of which takes its point of departure from one of the four suits of playing cards.
2 satser fra Tritoner af Per Norgard (1986) - for 1 el. 2 klaverer. 2. De 8 sojler 3. Helle Manuskopi Vaerkets 1. sats En tid, et sted, en bon -Pailng er bortkommet.
Sol Moder Mane - Dansen Mellem Stjerner for Percussion af Per Norgard (2005). Fra borneteaterforestillingen Dans og Manespil af MariaLalander og Corona La Balance. For 1-3 arige. Manuskopi.
Work for String Orchestra.
Work for String Orchestra composed for Gabriel Axel's Film 'Babette's Feast'.
Work for Piano dating from 1959.
2010-2011, for Orchestra. Duration: c. 35 min. Orchestra. 4 Flutes (Fl. 2&3 dbl. Alto Flute, Fl. 4 dbl. Piccolo) 3 Oboes 1 English Horn 3 Clarinets in Bb (Cl. 3 dbl. Cl. in Eb) Bass Clarinet 3 Bassoon...
Per Norgard's fantastic 1987 work, Poeme for Marimba and other accompanying Percussion instruments. Norgard is one of the most influential contemporary Danish composers and this piece features element...
A wonderful composition for Cimbalon, a traditional Eastern European instrument, by Per Norgard. Completed in 1979, Isternia is a terrific 12 minute work featuring warm and rich changing tones and tex...
Per Nørgård's Moon Shadow (Majmånemusik) - for Violin solo, or Violin and Piano Duo, or Violin, Cello and Piano Trio. Dedicated Maj Kullberg.
An arrangement of Per Norgard's 1973 work Spell, for Violin, Cello and Piano.
Trio Breve - Tre Fragmenter - Efter en Drøm (2012) by Per Nørgård. For Violin, Cello and Piano. Former known as: Efter Drøm / After Dream
Per N°rgÕrd THREE MINIATURES for string quartet (string quartet no. 3) The Three Miniatures for string quartet (composed 1959) has a consequent experimental structure that dictates every note in the t...
String Quartet No. 1 - 'Quartetto Breve' (1952) by Per Nørgård. Programme note: The spectrum of sound, the gesticulation - in short, the very nature of the strings - has always had a central place in...
Score available: WH30473B
Preface The three movements of the quartet may be perceived as three different expressions of an unstable core: an inherent unrest leads to frequent changes of direction. The first movement is full of...
Parts for Per Norgard's String Quartet No. 1 - 'Quartetto Breve' Score available: KP01185
Programme Note During the composition of my tenth string quartet a flower-name, host-tidlos, came to my mind - and it would not me leave again. [hosttidlos is actually autumn crocus in English, but t...
Set of parts for 'Quartetto Brioso' Op. 21 - String Quartet No. 2 by Per Norgård.
Set of parts for String Quartet No. 6 'Tintinnabulary' by Per Norgard (1986). Study score available: WH30118B
Programme note The spectrum of sound, the gesticulation - in short, the very nature of the strings - has always had a central place in my output, demonstrated by the numbers of stringquartets, concert...
Programme Note WHIRLS' WORLD (1970) for wind quintet. 'Whirl's World' was composed in 1970 as one of a series of works which explored the so-called musical 'difference-phenomenon'. This term (which I...
Whirl's World' was composed in 1970 as one of a series of works which explored the so-called musical 'difference-phenomenon'. This term (which I coined in connection with a series of lectures in Calif...
Three progressive suites, for Accordion Solo.
Version for Accordion with Piano Reduction of Orchestral Parts.
Suitable for Treble Recorder.
A solo work for the Recorder, composed in 1998 by Per Norgard.
LIBRO PER NOBUKO (BOOK FOR NOBUKO) consists of two pieces written for Nobuko Imai, the Japanese violist. Dedicated Nobuko Imai (1) and Bo [Vincens Steensen-Leth] (2) 1: Sonata 'The Secret Melody' (1a...
Written in 1991 for Cello and Guitar. Duration: 10 minutes.
Day And Night (1982) by Per Nørgård. Programme Note DAY AND NIGHT (1982) - 2 short songs for alto, piano (and cello ad lib.). The contrasting constellation of these two poems (Ted Hughes' 'A Kill' and...
I - Lento II - Imposante III - Andante Programme Note In my early television remembrance I recall a broadcast with Samuel Beckett, one of the fathers of the absurd play and drama. At one time Beckett...
Programme Note CANTICA for cello and piano (1977)When in 1975 I had finished composing my 'Symphony no. 3' (begun in 1973), I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig: 'The Year'...
Work for Solo Cello dating from 1953.
Work for Solo Cello dating from 1980. May be performed with Solo Intimo as Sonata in due Tempi.
Mod Aften for Cello solo was composed by Per Nørgård in 2009. Based on 'Aftonland' for choir, from 1954.
1949, c. 1 min
Sonata For Cello No. 2 - In Due Tempi by Per Norgård. ''Solo in scena' was composed in 1980 as a second and complementary movement to my one-movement cello piece of 1953, »Solo intimo'. The two...
Per Norgard's Tusmorke Dialog (or Twilight Dialogue) is a beautifully expressive piece from 2002, for Solo Flute which is also suitable for Recorder.
Composition dating from 1975.
Work for Flute and Guitar.
Per Norgård's Songline For Tine. Dedicated to Tine Rehling 2014.
Arresø-Billeder (Images of Arresø) for Oboe and Piano was composed by Per Nørgård in 1996. Version for Saxophone and Piano available: WH 32841
Programme Note Zigzag percussion sextet (1981)ZIGZAG (1981, earlier entitled just SEXTET) is the second of my three percussion sextets (the other being RONDO (1964) and SQUARE AND ROUND (TWO DANCES) (...
Work for Percussion Solo dating from 1969.
Composed for Christian Martinez.
Per Norgard DANCERS AROUND JUPITER I: 'Shadow Dancer', dedicated to Axel Borup-Jorgensen, as my birthday greeting on the composer's 70th birthday 22. 11. 94 II: 'Jupiter Waves', dedicated to Dr. Jeffr...
Arresø-Billeder (Images of Arresø for Saxophone and Piano was composed by Per Nørgård in 1996.
Programme Note Per Nørgård LIBRO PER NOBUKO (1992)LIBRO PER NOBUKO (BOOK FOR NOBUKO) consists of two pieces written for Nobuko Imai, the Japanese violist. Dedicated Nobuko Imai (1) and Bo [Vincens Ste...
Preface / Programme NoteThe title is meant to suggest something playful, even childlike, but also something challenging and competitive. All these elements are part of sports, games and playing - and...
Winter Cantata / Vinterkantate (1976) by Per Nørgård for a variable ensemble of soloist, mixed choir and instruments (minimum: vocalist and organ). Programme Note: When in 1975 I had finished composin...
