Carl Nielsen

Jeg har båret lærkens vinge

Skylark wings I used to carry

CNW 377
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 396
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 167

Author: Michael Rosing

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1926 and 1927.

The two-part piece survives in autograph manuscript. It was presumably intended for the revised edition of Melodier til Sangbogen "Danmark", which, however, appeared in 1940 after Nielsen's death.

Jeg har båret lærkens vinge

Skylark wings I used to carry