Carl Nielsen

Kantate til Lorenz Frølich-Festen

Cantata for the Lorenz Frølich Celebration

CNW 103
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/2
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 321
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 26

Author: Axel Olrik

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1900.

Kantate til Lorenz Frølich-Festen was composed for the occasion of the eightieth birthday of the painter Lorenz Frølich which was celebrated in Koncertpalæet, Copenhagen, on 30 November 1900. Nielsen composed the music at a time when he was busy working on his opera Saul og David (CNW 1).

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