Carl Nielsen

Paaske-Liljen

(Paaskeblomst! En Draabe stærk)

The Daffodil

(Easter bloom! A potent drink)

CNW 361
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 146, 229; III/6, 324
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 302
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 59, 103

Author: N.F.S. Grundtvig

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1910.

Nielsen composed the song in 1910. It has not been possible to determine which of the two first versions he composed first. The version for male choir was the first to be performed in public and to be printed. Valdemar Rørdam later re-used the melody – and also that of Nielsen's choral movement Aftenstemning (CNW 359) – in a cantata for the inauguration of the radium station (radiotherapy clinic) in Copenhagen on 4 March 1931. Later the melody became one of Nielsen’s best-known hymn tunes, used for the text 'Påskeblomst! hvad vil du her'.

Version for male choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 324

Date: 1910.

This version had its first performance in May 1910 and was printed that same year.

Andantino

Paaskeblomst! En Draabe stærk

Easter bloom! a potent drink

Version for piano (with text)

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 229

Date: 1910.

Paaskeblomst! En Draabe stærk

Easter bloom! a potent drink

Version for piano (with text)

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 146

Date: 1922.

Andantino

Paaskeblomst! En Draabe stærk

Easter bloom! a potent drink

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