Carl Nielsen

Nu er for stakket Tid forbi

It's over for a short respite

CNW 344
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 296
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 301
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 138

Author: Viggo Stuckenberg

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: May 1929.

Having composed a song on request by the organist and music teacher Knud Malmstrøm at Birkerød Statsskole, Nielsen was asked again – in a letter of 7 May 1929 – to compose yet another one for the school. Malmstrøm received the new composition less than ten days later.

Let og lyst

Nu er forstakket Tid forbi

It's over for a short respite