Marianne Clausen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Marianne Clausen

Danish musicologist

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1947

Date of Death: 17-Sep-2014

Profession: conductor, choir director, musicologist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Marianne Clausen (25 December 1947 – 17 September 2014) was a Danish musicologist and choir conductor.
She was the daughter of composer, choir conductor and musicologist Karl Clausen (1904–1972).
Her main achievement, begun in collaboration with her father in the early 1970s, intensified during the 1990s, and concluded just weeks before her death, was the preservation of traditional Faroese folk singing, which she presented in a number of large volumes with music notation transcriptions of sound recordings.
Based on more than 6,000 such recordings, collected by many different scholars, including herself, throughout the entire 20th century, she published around 3,350 music notation examples of various genres of traditional Faroese singing, together with hitherto unpublished song texts, as well as historical and musicological analyses. Marianne Clausen also led and conducted several amateur choirs, most notably 1978-2000 the Faroese choir in Copenhagen, Húsakórið, and 1984-2013 the Danish choir Con Brio.