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Jan 27, 2007 - 1:34 PM
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Urs Lesse
(Member)
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After I have already mentioned it in a different thread, I have been encouraged to inform others of the sad death of my friend Christian Madsen from Århus, Denmark.
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/profile.cfm?ID=Christian%20Madsen
Jens Christian Madsen set an abrupt end to his young life on or before 9 October 2006 after many years of clinical depression and some related physical problems.
Born in 1979, Christian studied German and Spanish in Århus (Denmark), where he lived and died, as well as in Kiel (Germany) and Madrid. Christian was an exceptionally bright student and always eager to improve his German language abilities to perfection. He was about to complete his MA in 2007 or 2008.
Christian was an avid soundtrack collector with a collection of probably 3500 to 4000 soundtrack CDs by the end of his life. However, he was most and foremost a passionate John Barry fan, which is how I got to know Christian in autumn of 2004: Probably the only John Barry CD missing in his collection was The Quiller Memorandum which I offered to copy for him when he expressed his wish to complete his John Barry collection in an FSM board thread around that time. In the following two years, we would frequently chat about everything film music related, movies, public life in Germany and also private things, usually via MSN messenger, but occasionally also by phone. I guess that almost half a dozen of film music packages 'commuted' between Denmark and Germany in the course of our friendship. Christian also helped me to discover many previously unknown (to me) great scores, especially the works of Roy Budd. Unfortunately I never got the chance to meet Christian in person, although we often discussed it when an interesting film music concert in Germany or Ghent (Belgium) would offer the opportunity. Together with friends of the Danish Film Music Society, Christian was able to see many of the greatest composers live when they would give concerts in Europe.
I learned to know Christian as an always incredibly helpful, friendly and polite human being. He was also quite open to me about his personal problems, but as everyone will understand, this is all I will say about his situation.
Christian's death deeply saddened me when his parents informed me in October. I also often found myself in situations when I would think what Christian's opinion about this or that new soundtrack release or, for example, about the new James Bond movie and its score would be. Or I would find an interesting soundtrack CD in a bargain bin and spontaneously think if he would be interested in it, only to remember I will never get to talk with him again.
As I expressed on another thread, out of co-incidence Christian and his death has become related with Yann Tiersen's Good Bye Lenin! to me, but I think that if anyone of you wants to play a movie score in commemoration of Christian Madsen, then John Barry's CHAPLIN would certainly be a very appropriate choice.
Urs
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This is very sad news. He was a nice looking young man and though not a frequent poster, a pleasant and thoughtful one. I'm very sorry to hear this.
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Very sad. My condolences.
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Now you are free, our friend.
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Rest In Peace Christian.
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