Carl Nielsen

Apostlene sad i Jerusalem

Apostles convened in Jerusalem

CNW 328
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 271
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 77

Author: N.F.S. Grundtvig

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1928.

Nielsen composed the melody on request by the organist Johannes Hansen. According to Nielsen's diary, the song was finished on 2 April 1928. In a letter to Thorvald Aagaard, he argued that it should be included in the forthcoming edition of Folkehøjskolens Melodibog.

Apostlene sad i Jerusalem

Apostles convened in Jerusalem