Born in Copenhagen in 1930, Jørgen Plaetner studied composition under Vagn Holmboe, and attended contemporary music courses at Darmstadt in 1950, where he came into contact with the experimental practices of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Despite living in Sweden since 1977, he became one of Denmark's foremost electronic composers until his death in 2002. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.