Aage Stentoft was a Danish

Denmark

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 composer

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, film score composer and theatre director. He composed over 700 melodies during his lifetime.

Biography

Stentoft was born in Holbæk

Holbæk

Holbæk is a town in Denmark and the seat of Holbæk municipality with a population of 27,055 . The city is located in the northeastern part of Region Sjælland, Denmark....

 and attended the Stenhus Kostskole. Initially, he planned to study law

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, but due to a lack of money, he started to compose music for commercials. In 1934, he started work as an accompanist and composer for the revue

Revue

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 theatre Co-Optimisterne. A lot of his tunes quickly achieved widespread popularity, and he earned good money by composing and later on, by producing revues.

He started work managing

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 various theaters: Frederikberg Teater, Dagmar Teatret, Det Ny Scala and Apollo Teatret. In 1961, Aage Stentoft immigrated

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 to Spain

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. In 1973, he returned to Denmark as leader of the Tivoli Gardens theater, a job he kept until his retirement in 1981. After which, he returned to Spain. He died at his home near Malaga

Málaga

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 in 1990.

Popular tunes

• Luften var femten og vandet var seksten (1935)
• Dit hjerte er i fare, Andresen (1936)
• I den mellemste køje (1936)
• Henne om hjørnet (1936)
• Havnen (1937)
• Molak molak mak mak mak (1937)
• Konen, kællingen, madammen (1938)
• Månestrålen (1939)
• Alt var kun en drøm (1939)
• Den lille lysegrønne (1940)
• Jeg har aldrig kysset andre end Marie (1942)
• Såd'n var det ikke i halvfemserne (1944)
• Jacobsen (1948)
• Kys hinanden (1954)
• Pyt (1977)