Carl Nielsen

Kantate til Mindefesten for P.S. Krøyer

Cantata for the Commemoration of P.S. Krøyer

CNW 108
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) IV/1, Add. 28
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 322
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 56

Author: L.C. Nielsen

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1909.

The poet L.C. Nielsen and Nielsen were invited to write a cantata in memory of the painter P.S. Krøyer. Carl Nielsen first mentioned the cantata in his diary on 28 November 1909. The work was finished four days later, two days before its first performance.