John Frandsen

Danish contemporary classical composer

John Frandsen (born 13 March 1956) is a Danish composer, organist and choral conductor, whose work includes operas, chamber music, and religious music. John Frandsen (b. 1956) has a special feeling for finely wrought vocal melody that has resulted in seven operas including the grand opera I-K-O-N, commissioned and premiered in 2003 by the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. Delicacy and refinement permeate his compositions, which evoke echoes of late Romanticism. But behind the lyricism and the immediate appeal of the music lies a tight structure. (Notes from back sleeve of Dacapo Records 8.226508 - John Frandsen Orchestral Works.)