Carl Nielsen

Bondedans

Polka

Peasant Dance

Polka

CNW 77
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) IV/1, Add. 20
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 352c

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: Between 1896 and 1897.

The piece is notated on a pencil sketch for Hymnus Amoris (CNW 100), composed in 1896. However, the dance has nothing to do with Hymnus Amoris; Nielsen merely re-used the manuscript paper for the pencil draft for Bondedans.