Carl Nielsen

Danmark

(Vi elsker vort blomstrende Fædreland)

Denmark

(We dote on our flowering native land)

CNW 307
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 242, 253; III/6, 341
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 83
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 111

Author: Axel Juel

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1917 and 1919.

It is uncertain when the song was composed. A pencil draft of it appears on a manuscript folio including works composed in 1917. However, the poem was not published until 1919.

Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 242

Date: Between 1917 and 1919.

Vi elsker vort blomstrende Fædreland

We dote on our flowering native land

Version for piano (with text)

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 253

Date: 1924.

The draft is dated 10 January 1924

Vi elsker vort blomstrende Fædreland

We dote on our flowering native land

Version for children's choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 341

Date: 1924.

Vi elsker vort blomstrende Fædreland

We dote on our flowering native land