Else Marie Pade

Else Marie Pade (2 December 1924 – 18 January 2016) was a Danish composer of electronic music. She was educated as a pianist at the Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (Royal Danish Academy of Music) in Copenhagen. She studied composition first with Vagn Holmboe, and later with Jan Maegaard, from whom she learned twelve-tone technique. In 1954, she became the first Danish composer of electronic and concrete music (Bruland 2001). She worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as Pierre Boulez (Wind-Friis and Michelsen 2016). Pade was active in the resistance during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 until the end of the war (Wind-Friis and Michelsen 2016).