Vagn Holmboe

[3] The couple married in 1933 and left Berlin for Romania, where they visited obscure and remote villages and studied Transylvanian folk-song.

Similar to the research he had already done in Romania, he pursued his studies of folk-song with much field-work throughout Denmark including the Faroes and Greenland.

[4] Vagn Holmboe's students included Per Nørgård, Ib Nørholm, Bent Lorentzen, Arne Nordheim, Egil Hovland and Alan Stout.

[5] Vagn Holmboe was a keen nature-lover who lived in the countryside until his death in 1996 and over the years personally planted 3000 trees on his land.

Might also be said to be named after his wife, Meta May Holmboe... numbering system assembled by Prof.[6] Symphonies: Ten Preludes for Sinfonietta Concertos: (about twenty, including especially): Choral Chamber: Commercial recordings of his symphonies by Owain Arwel Hughes are still available, as are recordings of his Ten Preludes for Sinfonietta (1986–1991),[9] string quartets, chamber concertos, and some other works.

Private tapes exist of performances of Holmboe's music; these were made by Fritz Mahler,[10] Nikolai Malko,[11] among others.