Jan Maegaard

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Jan Maegaard (14 April 1926 – 27 November 2012) was a Danish musicologist and composer.

He took the mag.art. degree at the University of Copenhagen in 1957, and the dr.philos. degree with a thesis about Schönberg in 1972. He also had a composer education at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, studying among others under Poul Schierbeck.[1]

He was professor of musicology at the University of Copenhagen from 1971 to 1996, except for the years 1978 to 1981 when he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also worked as a music critic.[1] He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1988.[2]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Jan Maegaard". Store Danske Encyklopaedi (in Danish). Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Utenlandske medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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