Frederik Magle on his Academic Education, his Music, and Loosing the Fear of Becoming Kitsch

He is a danish, tonal composer who seeks to create works you would want to listen to on your deathbed. Frederik Magle visits The Cave to explain why storytelling - not musical technicalities - is the goal of a composer.
He also touches on the strange and mixed reception of his work, and how the sway «modern» values may still hold over classically minded people, and how to counter that.
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02:07 Influenced by his father's passion for painting and music as a child
03:49 Applying for two majors at the Royal Danish Academy of Music
05:18 Decision to leave the Conservatory
08:15 On tonal and atonal music
10:46 How the system molds you into a specific direction
14:14 Not being part of the academic circle
18:13 The self-fulfilling prophecy of being an outsider
23:38 Overcoming bitterness and two-year writer's block by having a child
28:57 On improvisation and his "Skyward" fanfare for the F-35 rollout ceremony
38:40 Inspiration can appear in the dullest of moments
41:31 Mozart's Requiem and Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
45:13 The Walcker Organ in Riga Cathedral
46:36 Magle's career as an organ consultant
48:53 The relationship between music and architecture
50:36 Modal composition
52:52 Fanfare for the Danish Royal Orchestra
57:05 The fear of not delivering
1:00:11 What would Magle say to Gustav Mahler?
1:03:13 How both Modern and Classical values can limit your work
1:08:47 On composing "The Secret Garden"
1:15:57 Losing the fear of becoming kitsch
The conversation was produced by Bork S. Nerdrum and assisted by Öde S. Nerdrum.
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[@beautyandthefaith]

As a classical inspired composer, this is one of the most important interviews I have heard. There would be so many in a similar situation as I that would benefit so greatly by both the encouragement that this episode serves in, but also the specific creative process of this amazing musician that is being revealed in this episode. Thank you very much for making this. I am sure many will be inspired by this episode in the years to come as the classical revival grows.

[@FilipSandecomposer]

Thank you for this conversation. As a composer my self, it is a great pleasure to hear other composers talk about their work.

[@thinkfree88]

That was besides many other things an interesting analysis of the composing process, thank you!

[@duncanweller1]

Frederik is talking about community envy when groups seem to be out to get you when they are comfortable with a status quo that benefits them. The more popular I become with the public and sell my work, the more other artists, namely contemporary, get upset.

[@jsc5492]

There are other interesting speakers who are able to talk about themselves without it seeming like a session of psychotherapy. Not everyone is a "victim", no matter how much this feeling is fashionable! Works you would want to listen to. Why not? 1. Great composers exercised their art in taking music fordard, not in taking regressive steps. 2. It is true that Beethoven, Berlioz and Mahler were criticised by their contemporaries for 'making noise', but their music is still played,understood, enjoyed in 2023. 3. "I know what I like and I like what I know" is part of the cultural dumbing down of our epoque. 4. More than 90% of all french candidats for the Baccalauréat pass this exam (the qualification for entering university). Some of them do so with a vocabulary of 900 words! Minimalism and easy listening are comfortable, but hardly educative. Pleasure is short lived and brain stagnation threatens...