Carl Nielsen

Musik til Harald Bergstedts friluftsspil "Ebbe Skammelsen"

Music for Harald Bergstedt's Open-Air Play 'Ebbe Skammelsen'

CNW 21
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) I/9
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 336
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 117

Author: Harald Bergstedt

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1925.

While working on the sixth symphony (CNW 30), Nielsen was commissioned to write the stage music for Harald Bergstedt's dramatization of the old ballad, Ebbe Skammelsen. It has not been possible to establish when Nielsen was asked to compose the music, but according to his letters and diary entries it was completed in haste in the weeks before 12 June 1925, when the manuscript was end-dated.