Carl Nielsen

Alle de voksende Skygger

All the developing shadows

CNW 282
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 220

Author: J.P. Jacobsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1887 and 1889.

Nielsen composed the song during a summer holiday when he fell in love with Emilie Demant in the late 1880s. In her memoirs she writes about the song that Nielsen dedicated to her.

Andantino

Alle de voksende Skygger

All the developing shadows