Carl Nielsen

Tre stykker for langeleg

Three Pieces for Langeleik

CNW 71
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) II/11
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 77

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1918.

Nielsen's three pieces for langeleik were composed in 1918 at the request of the music historian Hortense Panum; she hoped to foster an interest in the old Norwegian folk instrument.