Carl Nielsen

Kær est du, Fødeland, sødt er dit Navn

So dear my native land, the name so sweet

CNW 380
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 254; III/6, 343
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 181
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 111

Author: Steen Steensen Blicher

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1923 and 1924.

The song was composed while Nielsen was working on Melodier til Sangbogen "Danmark" in 1923–24.

Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 254

Date: Between 1923 and 1924.

At the same time as Carl Nielsen was working on the melody book, he also made piano arrangements for some of these songs.

Kær est du, Fødeland, sødt er dit Navn

So dear my native land, thy name so sweet

Version for children's choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 343

Date: 1924.

Kær est du, Fødeland, sødt er dit Navn

So dear my native land, thy name so sweet