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Harald Alfred Bernhardt Stevnsborg Lander (25 February 1905 – 14 September 1971) was a Danish dancer, choreographer and artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. Lander was born in Copenhagen. He started as a dancer, studying under ballet master Michel Fokine in 1926–27, and danced various principal roles until his retirement ...
Harald Lander (born Feb. 25, 1905, Copenhagen—died Sept. 14, 1971, Copenhagen) was a Danish dancer and choreographer who was primarily responsible for rebuilding the faltering Royal Danish Ballet into a superb performing organization.
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Études is a one-act ballet choreographed by Danish dancer and choreographer Harald Lander to piano studies by Carl Czerny arranged for orchestra by Knudåge Riisager. It is considered Lander's most famous choreographic work and brought him international fame.
Danish dancer and choreographer Harald Lander (1905–71) created more than 30 ballets during his career, including his most enduring work— Etudes —and was artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet for almost two decades. Lander was a true product of the Danish ballet tradition.
Biography. Born in 1905, Harald Lander was trained in the Royal Danish Ballet School. He entered the Company in 1923 and was nominated Etoile in 1929. He also studied under Fokine in New York. Lander was then appointed Dance Director at the Royal Theatre of Copenhagen from 1932 to 1951.
Etudes was choreographed in 1948 by Harald Lander, a Danish-born dancer and artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. The initial inspiration came from composer Knudåge Riisager. On an autumn afternoon in Copenhagen, as he watched a swirl of fall leaves, Riisager heard through a window someone practicing a Carl Czerny piano exercise.
