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Bjørn Fongaard (1919 Oslo–1980 Oslo) was a guitarist and a composer. He studied at Oslo Conservatory of Music with Per Steenberg, Sigurd Islandsmoen, Bjarne Brustad and Karl Andersen.  
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'''Bjørn Einar Fongaard''' (1919–1980) was a guitarist and composer.  
  
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He remains famous for his quarter-tone guitar which could be applied to modal and major/minor tonality as well as to any other tonal system, regardless of the number of intervals into which the octave was divided. He further built another guitar able to produce any interval - whether the octave was divided into 12, 24 or even an endless number of steps - for which he composed a series of works: Galaxy, Homo Sapiens, Genesis.
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He studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music where his teachers included Per Steenberg, Sigurd Islandsmoen, Bjarne Brustad and Karl Andersen.
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Fongaard remains famous for his specially designed 'micro-intervallic' guitar. Fitted with twice the normal number of frets, it enabled him to subdivide every note in the normal scale again, accessing all the harmonic colours of the quarter tone. But Fongaard was also a devotee of extended technique, using bows, felt and straws to prepare the strings, attaching tuning forks to the neck to ring in sympathy with certain notes, and playing it on a tabletop. (from [http://prismarecords.blogspot.no/2010/10/fongaard-review-in-wire.html The Wire review])
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His ''Sinfonia Microtonalis'' represented Norway at the 1970 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. He also attempted to transfer his microtonal principles to works for orchestra including ''Orchestra Antiphonalis'', ''Symphony of Space'', ''Universum'' and ''Mare Tranquilitatis''.
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He made a number of composition series: 23 Concertos for Piano and Orchestra 0p. 118, 12 Concertos for Solo Instrument and Orchestra op. 120, 21 String Quartets op. 123, 57 Sonatas for One Instrument op. 125, 41 Concertos for Solo Instrument and Tape op. 131. Due to the partly experimental notation, these works have not become widely known.
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==Releases==
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* Bjørn Fongaard, ''Elektrofoni: Works For Micro Intervallic Guitar 1965-1978'', Prisma Records (PRISMA CD711), 3-CD & 5-DVD, 2010. [http://prismarecords.blogspot.com/2010/10/bjrn-fongaard-elektrofoni-3cd1dvd-box.html], [http://www.discogs.com/Bj%C3%B8rn-Fongaard-Elektrofoni-Works-For-Micro-Intervallic-Guitar-1965-1978/release/2488988].
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==See also==
 
* [[Norway#Electroacoustic and experimental music]]
 
* [[Norway#Electroacoustic and experimental music]]
  
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==Links==
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Fongaard Fongaard at Wikipedia]
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* [https://tv.nrk.no/program/FTEM00001671 Fongaard performing on Norwegian Television], 1971
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* [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Fongaard Fongaard at Norwegian Wikipedia]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgIMwbd2BhU Electronic music concert with the works by Fongaard], video, 2010.
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* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bj%C3%B8rn+Fongaard Fongaard at Discogs.com]
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* [http://www.volcanictongue.com/columns/show/13 Lasse Marhaug comments on Fongaard's ''Galaxy'' (1965)]
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* [http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002101214595343985351 Fongaard's biography], Music Information Centre Norway
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* [http://nbl.snl.no/Bj%C3%B8rn_Fongaard/utdypning Fongaard in Norsk biografisk leksikon] {{no}}
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Fongaard Wikipedia]
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* [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Fongaard Wikipedia-NO]
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* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Bj%C3%B8rn+Fongaard Discogs]

Latest revision as of 23:54, 25 May 2022

Born March 2, 1919(1919-03-02)
Oslo, Norway
Died October 26, 1980(1980-10-26) (aged 61)
Oslo, Norway

Bjørn Einar Fongaard (1919–1980) was a guitarist and composer.

He studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music where his teachers included Per Steenberg, Sigurd Islandsmoen, Bjarne Brustad and Karl Andersen.

Fongaard remains famous for his specially designed 'micro-intervallic' guitar. Fitted with twice the normal number of frets, it enabled him to subdivide every note in the normal scale again, accessing all the harmonic colours of the quarter tone. But Fongaard was also a devotee of extended technique, using bows, felt and straws to prepare the strings, attaching tuning forks to the neck to ring in sympathy with certain notes, and playing it on a tabletop. (from The Wire review)

His Sinfonia Microtonalis represented Norway at the 1970 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. He also attempted to transfer his microtonal principles to works for orchestra including Orchestra Antiphonalis, Symphony of Space, Universum and Mare Tranquilitatis.

He made a number of composition series: 23 Concertos for Piano and Orchestra 0p. 118, 12 Concertos for Solo Instrument and Orchestra op. 120, 21 String Quartets op. 123, 57 Sonatas for One Instrument op. 125, 41 Concertos for Solo Instrument and Tape op. 131. Due to the partly experimental notation, these works have not become widely known.

Releases[edit]

  • Bjørn Fongaard, Elektrofoni: Works For Micro Intervallic Guitar 1965-1978, Prisma Records (PRISMA CD711), 3-CD & 5-DVD, 2010. [1], [2].

See also[edit]

Links[edit]

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