Carl Nielsen

Serenade

(See! Luften er stille)

Serenade

(The blue waves are sleeping)

CNW 277
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 215
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 226
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 3q

Author: Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
Translator: Caralis [Christian Preetzmann]

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between c. 1886 and 1888.

During his student years, Nielsen composed songs to texts by English poets in a Danish translation by Christian Preetzmann (CNW 276, 277, 278, 279, 355, 356). It is probable that his music theory teacher Orla Rosenhoff was the instigator.

Allegretto

See! Luften er stille

The blue waves are sleeping