Name Ilja Bergh | Role Composer | |
Died September 5, 2015, Hvidovre, Denmark Education Royal Danish Academy of Music Similar People Jurij Moskvitin, Niels Viggo Bentzon, Andreas Bergh, Niels Gade, Rued Langgaard | ||
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Ilja Bergh (22 January 1927 – 5 September 2015) was a Danish pianist and composer.
His father was a singing teacher and his mother, Russian-born, was a painter. His grandfather was the composer Rudolph Sophus Bergh and his great-grandfather physician and zoologist Rudolph Bergh.
Ilja Bergh led a colorful and turbulent life. His childhood took him from Berlin to Riga and Kiev, to Copenhagen. He received his first piano lessons in Kiev 1935-1937. After World War II, he was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Music, but was thrown out. Later he was admitted again and received his diploma in 1957.
He died on 5 September 2015.
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