Talk:Kai Normann Andersen

Alphabetisation
Both here and on da.wikipedia, his last name is treated as being Andersen; however, I'm finding print reference works listing him as "Normann Andersen, Kai". Which is correct? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:44, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Timing
I don't have the book Music in Denmark and so can't fix an apparent oddity:


 * In the 1930s and 1940s he dominated Danish film music. Knud Ketting considers him to be "one of the most appealing personalities of our time in the light music field".

People who were dominant seventy or eighty years ago are likely now to be dead or largely incapacitated. The reader who's not at all alert will swallow all of this without digesting it; the very alert and thoughtful reader will see a puzzle and provide a partial solution to it; somebody halfway will be puzzled. How about:


 * In the 1930s and 1940s he dominated Danish film music. Writing in the 1980s, Knud Ketting called him "one of the most appealing personalities of our time in the light music field".''

However, I don't know whether Ketting actually wrote in the 80s. -- Hoary (talk) 05:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Ketting was in fact just the editor (which is why I'd originally added that cite in passive voice). I believe this may be the original book that we're citing in translation; if that's the case, it was also published in 1987 and "our time" must refer either to enduring popularity or to the 20th century/age of film music as a whole. --Yngvadottir (talk) 13:02, 14 April 2013 (UTC)