Carl Nielsen

Kantate til Mindefesten i Anledning af 250-Aarsdagen for Stormen paa København

Cantata for the Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Storming of Copenhagen

CNW 106
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) 323
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 49

Author: L.C. Nielsen

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1909.

Nielsen composed Kantate til Mindefesten i Anledning af 250-Aarsdagen for Stormen paa København to a text by L.C. Nielsen while he was working on Kantate ved Aarhus Landsudstillings Aabnings-Højtidelighed 1909 (CNW 107). The cantata was performed at a grand ceremony at Copenhagen City Hall on 11 February 1909 as part of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the storming of Copenhagen by the Swedish army.