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Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include Et glassperlespill and Gjennom Prisme. He was a professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music until retiring in 2014, and has also been an influential figure in music education and music organisations in Norway. Thommessen has played a significant role in aesthetic discourse in Norway and is known for his modernist and atonal stance. In later life he has become known for engaging in a critical public dialogue with his former student Marcus Paus about the future of art music, that has resulted in the opera monologue The Teacher Who Was Not To Be with a libretto by Thommessen; a 2015 debate between the two was described as "the biggest public debate about art music" in Norway since the 1970s. (en)
Olav Anton Thommessen (Oslo, 16 mei 1946) is een Noors componist, muziekpedagoog en functionaris op allerlei muziekgebied. (nl)
Olav Anton Thommessen, född 16 maj 1946 i Oslo, är en norsk tonsättare, ofta förknippad med nutida musik. Thommessen följde sin fars liv som diplomat, vilket bland annat medförde att han avlade en bachelor-examen i komposition vid och Indiana University 1969 följt av studier för i Warszawa och för och i Utrecht 1971–1972. Han är för närvarande professor i komposition vid Norges Musikhögskola i Oslo. Thommesen har varit ledamot av styrelserna för , och . Han var också med och grundade (ordförande 1979–1985). Ett brev han skrev till tonsättaren Marcus Paus år 2006 publicerades som operamonolog av Paus 2013 med titeln Læreren som ikke ble och hade premiär på Oslo Operafestival samma år; Thommessen identifierades av Paus som librettist 2015. (sv)

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Olav Anton Thommessen (en)

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Olav Anton Thommessen (en)

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Et glassperlespill; The Teacher Who Was Not To Be (en)

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Dear Marcus! I write to you based on your presentation in the Norwegian Composers' Association, where you tried to act as a "breath of fresh air" in an environment that you believe has been led astray. It was insulting and pubertal. And I send you some of my own works . We are probably not that different, but that you did not let me teach you at all is a personal defeat for me. The attitudes that you demonstrated in your presentation show that you do not understand what it means to be a "creative" artist. [...] I don't want any more verbal contact with you. (en)

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The Teacher Who Was Not To Be (en)

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Olav Anton Thommessen (Oslo, 16 mei 1946) is een Noors componist, muziekpedagoog en functionaris op allerlei muziekgebied. (nl)
Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include Et glassperlespill and Gjennom Prisme. He was a professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music until retiring in 2014, and has also been an influential figure in music education and music organisations in Norway. Thommessen has played a significant role in aesthetic discourse in Norway and is known for his modernist and atonal stance. In later life he has become known for engaging in a critical public dialogue with his former student Marcus Paus about the future of art music, that has resulted in the opera monologue The Teacher Who Was Not To Be with a libretto by Thommessen; a 2015 debate bet (en)
Olav Anton Thommessen, född 16 maj 1946 i Oslo, är en norsk tonsättare, ofta förknippad med nutida musik. Thommessen följde sin fars liv som diplomat, vilket bland annat medförde att han avlade en bachelor-examen i komposition vid och Indiana University 1969 följt av studier för i Warszawa och för och i Utrecht 1971–1972. Han är för närvarande professor i komposition vid Norges Musikhögskola i Oslo. Thommesen har varit ledamot av styrelserna för , och . Han var också med och grundade (ordförande 1979–1985). (sv)

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