Carl Nielsen

Guds Fred er mer end Englevagt

God's peace is more than angel guard

CNW 171
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 56
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 138
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 83

Author: N.F.S. Grundtvig

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1913 and c. 1915.

Nielsen also drafted another melody to the same text (CNW 393). It has not been possible to determine which of the two settings is the earliest.

Guds Fred er mere end Englevagt

God's peace is more than angel guard