Ivar Frounberg (born 12 April 1950, in Søborg) is a Danish composer, organist, and professor emeritus of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Ivar Frounberg was first educated as an organist, graduating in 1976 from the Royal Danish Academy of Music,[1] and later studied composition with Niels Viggo Bentzon and Ib Nørholm the same place, and with Morton Feldman in the USA and Iannis Xenakis in Italy.
In 1995 he received the Danish Arts Foundation's three-year grant for the second time as well as the Carl Nielsen Prize.
Starting with his 1985-work Embryo for amplified violin, string trio, piano, synthesizer, and tape the electronic resources became increasingly important in Frounberg's work, and in 1989 he composed the first large-scale Danish work for a computer,[4] What did the Sirens Sing as Ulysses sailed by?
are openly structured, allowing the conductor to combine different musical elements, therefore the work will sound different each time it is played[5]