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How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer

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How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer
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Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio. Frequent kidney inflammations consigned her to bed for long periods of time, which would constitute neither her last nor her harshest experience of confinement. She was still young when the Nazis occupied her homeland of Denmark during World War II, and perhaps her youth explains her decision to spit on a column of marching German soldiers. She escaped capture that day, running right into t

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