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Per Nørgård
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Vagn Holmboe
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Bent Sørensen
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Hans Abrahamsen
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Kalevi Aho
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Herman D. Koppel
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
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Hilding Rosenberg
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Hans Werner Henze
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Niels Gade
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