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

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  • Else Marie Pade was still young when the Nazis occu­pied her home­land of Den­mark dur­ing World War II.
  • She escaped cap­ture that day, run­ning right into the Dan­ish Resis­tance, for which she dis­trib­uted under­ground news­pa­pers.
  • The result of this inspi­ra­tion was the first of elec­tron­ic musique con­crète com­posed inDen­mark.
Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio.

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