Mating Dance

Per Nørgård

Year

1977


Duration

11'


Instrumentation

flute, guitar


Genre

Chamber Music


Premiere

Copenhagen, Denmark, Det kgl. danske Musikkonservatorium, 9 March 1978: Erling Møldrup, guitar / Niels Helge Poulsen, flute


Publisher

Edition Wilhelm Hansen


Comment

The work is based on Genkomster (Returns, 1976). Mating Dance was used as music for a ballet by Marie Lalander, premiered in the autumn 1978 in Copenhagen.


Source

Wise Music Classical website; Secretariat for Contemporary Music website;