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How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer

Open Culture 25 September 2026 Yesterday
How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer
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Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio. Frequent kidney inflammations consigned her to bed for long periods of time, which would constitute neither her last nor her harshest experience of confinement. She was still young when the Nazis occupied her homeland of Denmark […]
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