Carl Nielsen

Til Asali

(Før drømte jeg fast hver eneste Nat)

To Asali

(I dreamed up to now as good as each night)

CNW 358
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 318
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 294
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 3u

Author: J.P. Jacobsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between c. 1886 and 1888.

Like a number of other works (CNW 276–79, 355–57), 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.

Før drømte jeg fast hver eneste Nat

I dream up to now as good as each night