Interesting programme. However:
"A pupil of Nielsen's," 
He studied counterpoint with Nielsen for around a month and became a severe critic of the latter, composing Carl Nielsen Our Great Composer as a banal send-up. 
During the interval, the talented young Nightingale String Quartet plays the exquisite fourth quartet by fellow-Dane Rued Langgaard. A pupil of Nielsen's, he gave it the subtitle "Summer Days" and it is concise, elegant and quite delicious.
He studied counterpoint with Nielsen for around a month and became a severe critic of the latter, composing Carl Nielsen Our Great Composer as a banal send-up.