Music
...innovation. Its capital, Copenhagen, and its multiple outlying islands have a wide range of folk traditions, while an extensive recording industry has produced pop stars and a host of performers from a multitude of genres.
Classical
Anders Koppel is a current Danish composer. Carl Nielsen (1865 - 1931) is an internationally known composer from Denmark. He is especially admired for his six symphonies and his concertos for violin, flute and clarinet. German baroque composer, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 (?) - 1707) was born in Denmark.
Tango Jalousie
Though the tango is not a musical form normally associated with Denmark, one of the most universally known pieces of Danish music is the temperamental, romantic Tango Tzigane Jalousie (1925), also known as Tango Jalousie or simply Jalousie, composed by Jacob Gade.
Tango Jalousie has been used in countless films, such as the classic Danish sex comedy I Tvillingernes tegn (1975), where it is the centerpiece of a big nude dancing production number set in the 1930s, and Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried (2000), with Johnny Depp playing a gypsy in the 1920s.
Champagne Galop
Another widely popular Danish composition is The Champagne Galop by Hans Christian Lumbye. This piece of light classical music, which starts with the happy sound of a champagne cork popping, is today closely associated with the Tivoli Gardens (where Lumbye worked as music director and in-house composer, and where the piece was first performed).
Several Danish films quote The Champagne Galop to introduce a Tivoli-sequence, for instance Reptilicus (1961). It is also associated with unbridled carnality as can be seen from its use in several Danish sex films such as Ole Ege's Bordellet (aka: The Best Bit of Crumpet in Denmark) (1972) and in the Swedish 3-D sex comedy Champagnegalopp (aka: What the Swedish Butler Saw) (1975), starring Ole Søltoft...
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