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Carl Nielsen

Polka

for violin

Polka

for Violin

CNW 44
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) IV/1, Add.1
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 1

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: Probably between 1870 and 1881.

Polka for Violin is one of Nielsen's earliest compositions. In his autobiography Min fynske Barndom, he mentions that the piece was played at a party where he was substituting his father. The work survives in later sources only.

Instrumentation: vl.violino

Score, partly autograph, manuscript copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Partly autograph, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

Included in the manuscript for Nielsen's autobiography Min fynske Barndom.
Facsimile in: Min fynske Barndom. Copenhagen 1927, p. 101.

Score, facsimile of autograph fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Complete]

Original lost (?). Facsimile in Torben Meyer and Frede Schandorf Petersen: Carl Nielsen. Kunstneren og Mennesket, vol 1. Copenhagen 1947, p. 30.

CNU Source A.

Mr. Cocks [Leo Tscherning] (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'En Visit hos Carl Nielsen'. Det Kongelige Teaters Program, 34/74, 9 Nov. 1906. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 17)

Regnormen (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Hos "Maskarade"s Komponist'. Riget, 18 Jan. 1911. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 34)

Hl [Kj. Helweg-Larsen] (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Carl Nielsen spillede med Synkoper, allerede da han var Dreng –'. Berlingske Tidende, Aften, 3 June 1925. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 94)

Jørgen [Jørgen Rode] (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Fra Hyrdedreng og Hornblæser til Danmarks største Komponist'. Politiken, 26 Nov. 1927. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 139)

Carl Nielsen: Min fynske Barndom. Martins Forlag: Copenhagen 1927, p. 101.


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