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Knut Nystedt (September 3rd, 1915 - December 8th, 2014) was a Norwegian orchestral and choral composer from Oslo, Norway. Nystedt was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, and grew up in a Christian home where hymns and classical music were an important part of everyday life. His major compositions for choir and vocal soloists are mainly based on texts from the Bible or sacred themes. Old church music, especially Palestrina and Gregorian chants, have had a major influence on his compositions. He studied with Aaron Copland among others. Nystedt was organist in Torshov kirke (Torshov Church) in Oslo from 1946...

Venke Knutson (born 20.October 1978) She grew up in the small village Birkeland in Norway. She didn't sing that often, but she proclaimed a lot of poetry. She had a high and clear voice. Venke's favourite hobby as a little girl was to lie in the grass in the evening and look at the stars. She liked to listen to her father telling her about the names of the stars, and the history. Venke still likes to dream away with the sky as a ceiling. The star on the top to the left in Orion's Belt is Venke's favourite star....

Knutna Nävar was a communist progg band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active during the first half of the 1970's. The Swedish political party Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna (Revolutionärerna), Communist League Marxist-Leninists (the Revolutionaries), in 1971 relased the first Knutna Nävar LP, entitled "Internationalen och Andra Revolutionära Arbetarsånger" ("The Internationale and Other Revolutionary Worker-Songs"), through its label Proletärkultur. They released two LP's, the other being "De Svarta Listornas Folk" ("The People of the Black Lists") in 1973, and two EP's. Many of the songs by Knutna Nävar are using borrowed melodies from classic fight songs, but they also wrote their own material. One...

1. A legendary Swiss sludge / mathcore band from Geneva, Switzerland formed in 1994. Bleak, overwhelming, tortured and torturous in equal measure, Knut is the death bellow of bull elephants, the jazz of the crazies, free-form improv performed by death-prog metalheads fueled by bad chemistry and mad science. http://www.hydrahead.com/knut http://www.myspace.com/unknut 2. A parody band of Kent, started by the Swedish “Varanteatern” .

Knut Reiersrud (b. 1961) is a Norwegian blues guitarist. His work also incorporates elements of Norwegian traditional music and African music. He lives in Oslo. He has collaborated extensively with the Norwegian organist Iver Kleive. He also plays the harmonica, mandolin, langeleik, and Turkish saz. .