Carl Nielsen Studies

In the course of the past half-a-dozen years, the considerable international standing of Carl Nielsen's music among concert organisers and CD producers has been accompanied by a growing musicological preoccupation with his life and work beyond even the borders of Denmark. Recent years have brought a series of scholarly contributions from Danish as well as non-Danish musicologists, which have cast new light on Nielsen's music, shifting away from the national preoccupations and setting the composer in a wider European context.

A series of crucial initiatives have seized concerning the bringing to light and accessibility of the collected source material for Nielsen's life and work. A complete critical-scholarly edition of the music in approximately 30 volumes was begun in 1994 and is scheduled for completion in 2008, the complete writings (articles, essays, newspapers interviews etc.) appeared in 1999, and finally in 2002 a substantial project was initiated concerning a complete annotated edition of Carl Nielsen's letters.

Against this background the idea of the establishment of an English-language periodical with the title Carl Nielsen Studies was proposed at a symposium held in Birmingham in November 2001 entitled Discover Denmark. An editorial committee was formed with English and Danish members, chaired by Niels Krabbe, together with an international Honorary Board.

Carl Nielsen studies accepts biographical as well as analytical and more cultural-historical articles with subjects that are concerned in one way or another with the composer. The editors welcome uncommissioned contributions with a view to eventual publication in Carl Nielsen Studies; accepted contributions that are not in English will be translated at the editor's request. Contact: Niels Krabbe

Distribution in Scandinavia: The Royal Library
Distribution outside Scandinavia: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Honorary Board: John Bergsagel (Copenhagen), Jean Christensen (Louisville), Ludwig Finscher (Wolfenbüttel), Jim Samson (London) and Arnold Whittall (London).

Editorial committee for vols. 1 and 3: David Fanning, Daniel Grimley and Niels Krabbe (editor-in-chief)

Editorial committee for vol. 2: David Fanning, Daniel Grimley, Knud Ketting and Niels Krabbe (editor-in-chief) 

Editorial committee for vol. 4: David Fanning, Michael Fjeldsøe, Daniel Grimley and Niels Krabbe (editor-in-chief)
 

Carl Nielsen Bibliography

Carl Nielsen Studies includes a current Carl Nielsen Bibliography, covering the period from 1985 and onwards. An accumulating version of this is available online - click here.


Volume 1 (published December 2003)

Contents:
Niels Krabbe: Editorial (pp. 7-8)

David Fanning: Carl Nielsen and Early Twentieth-Century Musical/Aesthetic Theory (pp. 9-17)

Michael Fjeldsøe: Organicism and Construction in Nielsen's Symphony No. 5 (pp. 18-26)

Daniel Grimley: Analytical and Aesthetic Issues in Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (pp. 27-41)

Peter Hauge: Carl Nielsen and Intentionality. Concerning the Editing of Nielsen's Works (pp. 42-81)

Knud Ketting: Carl Nielsen and Tivoli (pp. 82-101)

Niels Krabbe: Carl Nielsen, Ebbe Hamerik and The First Symphony (pp. 102-23)

Tom Pankhurst: Different Names for the Same Thing…? Nielsen's Forces, Schenker's Striving, Tarasti's Modalities and Simpson's Narratives (pp. 124-36)

Anne-Marie Reynolds: Carl Nielsen Unmasked. Art and Popular Musical Styles in Maskarade (pp. 137-55)

Colin Roth: Stasis and Energy. Danish Paradox or European Issue? (pp. 156-64)

Reports (pp. 165-68):

  • The Carl Nielsen Edition (Niels Krabbe)
  • The Carl Nielsen's Letter (Niels Krabbe)
  • Carl Nielsen and the piano (Niels Krabbe)
  • Man and Musician. A new book on Carl Nielsen (Knud Ketting)

Carl Nielsen Bibliography 1985-1995 by Kirsten Flensborg Petersen (pp. 169-80)

Reviews (pp. 181-88) 

  • The Carl Nielsen Edition I/4 and 5: Saul and David - II/9 Concertos - III/1 Cantatas (Richard Rastall)
  • Emilie Demant Hatt: Foraarsbølger: Erindringer om Carl Nielsen. Edited by John Fellow (Mette Winge)



Volume 2 (published in September 2005)

Contents:

Peter Hauge: Carl Nielsen and the Gothenburg Orchestral Society, 1914-31 : The contact, Programming and Repertoire.

Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen: Carl Nielsen and Nancy Dalberg.

Knud Ketting: Carl Nielsen and the Radio.

Friedhelm Krummacher: Steps to the Modern : Carl Nielsen's String Quartets.

Tom Pankhurst: "We never know where we'll end up" : Nielsen's alternative endings to the Flute Concerto.

Elly Bruunshuus Petersen: Carl Nielsen, Quartet for two violins, viola and violoncello, Opus 5 : A glance into the composer's workshop.

Kirsten Flensborg Petersen: Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto : Form and revision of the ending.

Reports  

  • The Carl Nielsen Edition (Niels Krabbe)
  • Carl Nielsen's Letter (Niels Krabbe)

Carl Nielsen Bibliography 1996-2003 by Kirsten Flensborg Petersen

 

Carl Nielsen Studies 3 (published 2008)

Contents:

Niels Krabbe: Editorial (pp. 7-8)

David Fanning: Carl Nielsen Under The influence. Some New Soruces for the First Symphony (pp. 9-27)

John Fellow: A Patriotic Song and its consequences. 'Du danske mand' through hundred years (pp. 28-49)

Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen: The Rosenhoff Affair  (pp. 50-64)

Finn Mathiassen: Carl Nielsen: Music and Philosophy (pp. 65-79)

Karen Vestergård og Ida-Marie Vorre: Danishness in Nielsen's 'Folkelige' Songs (pp. 80-101)

Carl Nielsen Bibliography 2004-2007 by Kirsten Flensborg Petersen (pp. 102-110)

Reviews (pp. 111-15):

  • Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven: Bind 1: 1886-1897, Bind 2: 1898-1905, Bind 3: 1906-1910 (David Fanning)   

  

Carl Nielsen Studies 4 (published 2009)

Contents:

Niels Krabbe: Editorial

David Fanning: Carl Nielsen and Theories of Symphonism

Michael Fjeldsøe: Carl Nielsen and the Current of Vitalism in Art 

Daniel Grimley: Nielsen's Symphonic Waves: Enegetics, the Sinfonia Espansiva, and German Music Theory

Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen: Carl Nielsen's juvenilia et addenda: Reflections, Practices and Experiences, or How to Complete a Complete Edition

Raymond Knapp: Carl Nielsen and the Nationalist Trap; or, What, exactly, is Inextinguishable?

Tomáš Kráčmar: Nielsen – Brod – Janáček

Niels Krabbe: The Carl Nielsen Edition

Patrick McCreless: Strange Bedfellows: The Hebrew Bible and Wagner, in Saul og David

Anne-Marie Reynolds: Carl Nielsen's Folk-like Songs and the "Danish National Tone"

Colin Roth: Carl Nielsen and the Danish Tradition of Story-telling

Carl Nielsen Bibliography 2008 by Kirsten Flensborg Petersen