Erik Oluf Tuxen was a Danish big band leader, composer

Composer

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 and arranger

Arranger

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, who worked for most of his life in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. From 1936 until his death by cancer on 28 August 1957 he was conductor at the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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 of Danish Radio.

Along with Thomas Jensen

Thomas Jensen

Thomas Jensen was a Danish orchestra conductor.Born in Copenhagen, Jensen led several Danish ensembles, including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra ....

 and Launy Grøndahl

Launy Grøndahl

Launy Grøndahl was a Danish composer and conductor. Grøndahl studied the violin from the age of eight. His first work as a professional musician was as a violinist was with the Orchestra of the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen when he was aged just thirteen.He was also for a long period of time the...

, Tuxen pioneered performances and recordings of Carl Nielsen

Carl Nielsen

Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...

's music. Tuxen was also a prolific film

Film

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 arranger, responsible for the musical direction for many Danish films in the 1930s and 1940s. He was also a jazz

Jazz

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 bandleader.

He gave the British premiere of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony

Symphony No. 5 (Nielsen)

Symphony No. 5, Op. 50, FS 97 is a symphony composed by Carl Nielsen in Denmark between 1920 and 1922. It was first performed in Copenhagen on 24 January 1922 with the composer conducting. It is one of the two of Nielsen's six symphonies lacking a subtitle....

 at the 1950 Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh International Festival

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where it created a sensation. Later that year he premiered the work on disc.