Elias Davidsson (Icelandic spelling Elías Davíðsson; born Elias Kahn, 23 January 1941 - 7 April 2022) was an Icelandic

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

, 9/11 truther and

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author.

Biography

Elias Davidsson was born in

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to German Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany in 1931 and 1935 respectively (he later replaced his original surname with the

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Davidsson, in accordance with Icelandic naming conventions). Davidsson grew up in

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and

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.''Elias Davidsson''
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(archived 2017 version at archive.org). Temporarily, he lived in France until he finally moved to Iceland in 1962 and became an Icelandic citizen. He studied piano and composition in

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and

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. He worked as a

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for 22 years. Davidsson lived in Germany since 2008. In 2022 he lived in

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. He died on 7 April 2022 in Germany.

Music

While living in Iceland, Davidsson began composing avant-garde computer-assisted music. In 1976, his ''Piano Trio'' (with percussion) was performed at the Nordic Music Days in

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. This was followed by ''Landslög'', a

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based on Icelandic folk tunes. With ''Cheetahs, Impotent'' he presented a work for musical theatre. Subsequently, Elias Davidsson devoted himself increasingly to studying pieces for the piano. These include the ''Græna bókin'' ("Green Book") with 36 solo pieces for piano, a collection of cello duets and the 18 piano duets ''The Red Carousel - Das Rote Karussell''. Elias Davidsson plays

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and

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in addition to piano.

Journalism

Since the 1980s, Elias Davidsson had published on political topics, such as colonial history,

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

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s and

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. His texts appeared in anthologies and various journals, and later he frequently published on the internet. Since 2013, he has written multiple books on terrorism, for example the attacks in Mumbai in 2008 and as a truther on the

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. He rejected the conclusions of the

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and called them a "perfidious lie".

''The Betrayal of India'', 2017

In 2017, Davidsson published a book in which he claimed that India was responsible for the

26/11 The 2008 Mumbai attacks, also referred to as 26/11 attacks, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorism, Islamist terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist o ...

attacks.

Publications (selection)

Compositions

* ''Guépardes impuissantes: musique pour 5 hommes; 3 musiciens (alto, clarinette, piano) & 2 assistants = Geparden impotent = cheetahs impotent''. Partitur und Anweisungen. Roth, Zug 1975/1977. * ''Græna bókin. 36 vinsæl íslensk lög í píanóútsetningum Elíasar Davíðssonar'' („Das Grüne Buch. 36 populäre isländische Lieder in Klavierarrangements von Elias Davidsson“). Tónar og Steinar, Reykjavik 1994. * ''Celloduette und einige Stücke für 3 und 4 Violoncelli''. Tónar og Steinar, Reykjavik 1995. * ''Das rote Karussell. 18 leichte Klavierstücke, vierhändig.'' Isländisches Musik-Informationszentrum, Reykjavik 1989/Tónar og Steinar, Reykjavik 1999.

Books

* ''Die Vasalleninsel im Nordmeer. Alusuisse in Island'', in: Tobias Bauer und andere: ''Alusuisse : eine Schweizer Kolonialgeschichte : Silbersonne am Horizont''. Zürich : Limmat, 1989 , S. 153–175 * ''Hijacking America's Mind on 9/11: Counterfeiting Evidence'', Algora Publishing, 2013, * ''Psychologische Kriegsführung und gesellschaftliche Leugnung: Die Legende des 9/11 und die Fiktion der Terrorbedrohung''. Zambon-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2017, * ''The Betrayal of India: Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence'', Pharos Media, New Delhi, 2017, * ''Der gelbe Bus: Was geschah wirklich am Breitscheidplatz in Berlin?'', Zambon, Frankfurt a. M., 2018, * ''The London Transport Bombings of 2005: Unsolved Crime'', Kindle, eBook, 2019 * ''America’s Betrayal Confirmed: 9/11. Purpose, Cover-up and Impunity'', Toost, 2020

Literature

* John David White, Jean Christensen
''New music of the Nordic countries''
Pendragon Press, 2002, , S. 342–344

References

External links

''E.Davidsson''
website with bio and writings
''Composer Information: Elias Davidsson''
, Bio in Spartan Press Music Publishers
The Holdall by Rory O'Connor: Elias Davidsson on missing and counterfeit 9/11 evidence
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