Carl Nielsen
Commotio, opus 58
Commotio, Opus 58
Opus 58
CNW 99
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
II/12
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
1
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965.
155
Composition: 1930–31.
Finishing the 29 smaa Præludier for Orgel eller Harmonium (CNW 96), Nielsen began working on what was to be his last major composition: the organ work Commotio. It is not quite clear precisely when Nielsen began on the composition; some of the drafts are possibly from June 1930. The work was completed in February 1931.
Sources
Score, sketches
Score, sketch
Score, sketches
Score, sketches
Score, sketch
Score, draft
Score, proofs (Peter Thomsen)
Presumably posthumously.
Score, autograph (Peter Thomsen), manuscript copy
Score, autograph, printer's manuscript
Performances
| 24 Apr. 1931 | Christiansborgs Slotskirke, Copenhagen (performer: Peter Thomsen, organ). First performance (private). |
| 14 June 1931 | Nikolaj Kirkesal, Copenhagen (performer: Finn Viderø, organ). Private performance |
| 23 June 1931 | Roskilde Domkirke, Roskilde (performer: Emilius Bangert, organ). Private performance. |
| 14 Aug. 1931 | Aarhus Domkirke, Aarhus (performer: Emilius Bangert, organ). First public performance. |
| 9 Nov. 1931 | Helligaandskirken, Copenhagen (Dansk Koncert-Forening; performer: Peter Thomsen, organ). |
| 6 Oct. 1931 | Nordic-German Organ Week, St. Marien, Lübeck (performer: Emilius Bangert, organ). Review: Dansk Kirkemusiker-Tidende, 28, 1931 (Svend-Ove Møller). |
Documents
Letters:
Diary entries:
Manuscripts:
Carl Nielsen: Commotio. 6 Oct. 1931. The text was originally intended as part of a concert programme for Emilius Bangert's performance of Commotio at St. Marien in Lübeck for the Nordic-German organ-week, October 1931. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 207)
Other other:
Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Carl Nielsen skriver en ny opera - urpremiären på Storan'. Göteborgs-Tidningen, 14 Dec. 1930. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 179)
Rong (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Løftet, der ikke blev brudt'. Nationaltidende, 8 Jan. 1931. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 184)
Chr. Søndergaard (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'En Bommand gik tabt i Carl Nielsen'. Viborg Stifts Folkeblad, 5 Feb. 1931. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 187)
Bibliography
Povl Hamburger: 'Carl Nielsen som orgelkomponist'. Dansk Musiktidsskrift, 7/1, Jan. 1932, pp. 26–33.
Povl Hamburger: Koncertfører: fra Bach til Stravinsky og Prokofiev. Skandinavisk Bogforlag – Fyens Stiftsbogtrykkeri: Odense 1955, pp. 315–19.
Knudåge Riisager: 'Carl Nielsen – betragtet fra i dag'. Dansk Musiktidsskrift, 40/4, May 1965, pp. 109–10.
Torben Schousboe: 'Carl Nielsens præludier for orgel'. Organistbladet, 32/2, May 1966, pp. 20–27.
Charles H. Mathews: Carl Nielsen's Symphonic Elements as Evidenced in the "Commotio". M.M. Thesis, North Texas State University: 1968.
Kai Aage Bruun: Dansk musiks historie II. Komponister og værker fra J.P.E. Hartmann til Carl Nielsen. J. Vintens Forlagsboghandel: Copenhagen 1969, pp. 326–9.
Alan Gibbs: 'Carl Nielsen's "Commotio"'. The Musical Times, 104/1441, Mar. 1969, pp. 208–209.
James Frederick Burchill: An Analytical Study of Nielsen's "Commotio". Eastman School of Music: 1973. Master's Thesis.
Linda Sue Morrison: Commotio: Carl Nielsen's symphony for organ, a lecture recital together with three recitals. University of North Texas: 1984. DMA diss.
Niels Bo Foltmann: 'Emilius Bangert, Carl Nielsen og 'Commotio'', in: Musik i Roskilde, Historisk årbog fra Roskilde amt ( 1996/97).
Jørgen I. Jensen: 'At eksplodere i form – Commotio og Grundtvigskirken', in: Bo Holten and Eva Holten (eds.): Dansk Musik i tusind år (Copenhagen 1999), pp. 88–89.
Daniel M. Grimley: Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism. The Boydell Press: Woodbridge 2010.
Bine Katrine Bryndorf: 'Commotio for Orgel (Commotion for Organ). Carl Nielsen's last major work from 1931 including registrations and metronome indications in a first edition from the Carl Nielsen Collection at the Royal Library, Copenhagen'. The Organ Yearbook, 46, 2017, pp. 27–53.
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