Thomas Koppel (27 April 1944 – 25 February 2006) was a Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician.
[2] His father, Herman David Koppel (1908-1998), a composer and pianist of Jewish origin, fled the Nazis with his family in 1943.
The family moved to Denmark and Thomas studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with his father who was professor of piano.
He wrote string quartets, a piano concerto, operas, cantatas, a ballet, symphonies and other orchestral works.
Koppel composed the score in 1971 for the ballet Dødens Triumf (Triumph of Death) which was danced naked at the Royal Danish Theatre.