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Carl Nielsen

Kvartet for to violiner, bratsch og cello

Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello

CNW 49
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) IV/1, Add. 8
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 37
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 3d

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1883.

According to Nielsen's autobiography, Min fynske Barndom, the quartet was composed in Odense when he was having lessons with the cantor Carl Larsen and playing chamber music with some of his friends. In May 1883, he travelled to Copenhagen for a violin audition and to present the quartet for the composer N.W. Gade, director of the Copenhagen Academy of Music.

Instrumentation: string quartet

Key: D minor

1.

Allegro vivace

2.

Andante

3. Scherzo. Trio. Scherzo

Allegro

4. Finale

Allegro molto

Score, manuscript copy

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

Letters:

11 Mar. 1895   from Carl Nielsen to William Behrend, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 5155 4°. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. I/533; CNL 109)
5 Mar. 1896   from Carl Nielsen to Jean Louis Nicodé, D-DlSächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. I/557)
30 Oct. 1900   from Carl Nielsen to Ministeriet for Kirke- og Undervisningsvæsenet, DK-København, Rigsarkivet. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. II/165; CNL 142)
6 Nov. 1901   from Carl Nielsen to Angul Hammerich, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IAc. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. II/193; M & MTorben Meyer & Irmelin Eggert Møller: Carl Nielsens Breve. Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1954. 42)
3 Mar. 1905   from Carl Nielsen to Klaus Berntsen, DK-Odense, Carl Nielsen Museet. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. II/444; CNL 191)

Manuscripts:

Carl Nielsen: [Selvbiografi]. Between 9 Jan. 1905 and 24. Feb. 1905. Typewritten, undated manuscript, presumably intended for Carl Nielsens autobiography (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 9)

Other other:

Frib. (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Carl Nielsen om sin Barndom'. Berlingske Tidende, 26 Nov. 1927. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 137)

Carl Nielsen: ['Minder om Niels W. Gade'], in: William Behrend (ed.): Minder om Niels W. Gade, Kendte Mænd og Kvinders Erindringer (Foreningen Niels W. Gades Minde: Copenhagen 1930), pp. 80–85. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 168)


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