Bjørn Fongaard's lyrics & chords

Bjørn Fongaard was born in Oslo in 1919 and died there in 1980. He studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music where his teachers included Per Steenberg, Sigurd Islandsmoen, Bjarne Brustad and Karl Andersen. For many years he had a greater reputation as a guitarist than as a composer. His earliest works were composed in a rather traditional style. Gradually his music began to show the influence of modernists such as Hindemith, Schoenberg and Webern, and he developed an experimental style of composing. One example of this is Uranium 235 for orch...read more