strongfemaleleads:Composer[ELSE MARIE PADE: Denmark’s first composer of electronic music. Born 2 Dec
strongfemaleleads:Composer[ELSE MARIE PADE: Denmark’s first composer of electronic music. Born 2 Dec. 1924, Else was active in the Danish Resistance in WWII (spitting on German soldiers, distributing illegal newspapers, and joining an all-female explosives unit to demolish German phone networks). Else was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and interned at the Frøslev prison camp for one year, where she composed music by scratching notes on the wall of her cell with a buckle from her girdle. (Source: Wikipedia)] -- source link
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