Carl Nielsen

Tag jer iagt for Anna

(I Knøse! tag, det raader jeg)

Bonnie Ann

(Ye gallants bright, I rede ye right)

CNW 278
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 216
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 250a
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 3r

Author: Robert Burns
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.

Allegro vivace

I knøse, tag, det raader jeg

Ye gallants bright, I rede ye right