Poul Ruders

Poul Ruders is generally considered the foremost Danish composer of the postwar generation, having forged a solid reputation as an eclectic willing to use a variety of techniques and styles. In his works, he has incorporated features of minimalism, Medieval and Renaissance-era styles, popular music sources, various tonal and atonal elements, and has even developed a system of shaping and organizing pitch. Ruders was born on March 27, 1949, in Ringstead, on the island of Zealand in Denmark. He sang in the Copenhagen Boys' Choir as a child and later enrolled at the Odense Cons...