Carl Nielsen

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You suffer throughout an age of pain

CNW 357
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 317
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 290
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 3l

Author: J.P. Jacobsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 4 Dec. 1887.

Like a number of other works (CNW 276, 277, 278, 279, 355, 356, 358), the present composition for male choir dates from Nielsen's student years and may have been written at the suggestion of his theory teacher, Orla Rosenhoff. The only surviving source is a manuscript dated 4 December 1887. A few years later, Nielsen reworked the melody and included it in his Opus 6 (CNW Coll. 2).

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You suffer throughout