Carl Nielsen

Sof sött, du lilla Sonja!

Sleep sweetly, little Sonja!

CNW 309
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 245
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 230
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 99

Author: Harald Fürstenberg

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Feb. 1922.

The lullaby was composed during Nielsen's stay in Gothenburg in 1922 and dedicated to a daughter of the family with whom he was staying. The manuscript is dated 1 March 1922.

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Sof sött, du lilla Sonja!

Sleep sweetly, little Sonja!