Carl Nielsen
29 smaa Præludier for Orgel eller Harmonium, opus 51
29 Little Preludes for Organ or Harmonium, Opus 51
Opus 51
CNW 96
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
II/12
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
3, 312b
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965.
136
Composition: 1929.
29 smaa Præludier for Orgel eller Harmonium was Nielsen's first organ work. The organist Johannes Hansen asked the composer to write some organ preludes for use in divine service. The preludes were composed over a relatively short period of time at the beginning of 1929, and it is likely that the whole collection was finished by the end of March.
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Sources
Score, draft
Score, draft, excerpt (Nos. 12–13)
Score, draft, excerpt (No. 27)
Score, autograph, ink fair copy (No. 29)
Facsimile in Povl Chr. Balslev: Thorvald Aagaard – Komponist og musikformidler i den folkelige sangs tjeneste. Odense Bys Museer: Odense 2010.
Score, partly autograph, fair copy
Score, proofs, excerpt (Peter Thomsen) (Nos. 7–8, 10, 17–18)
Score, autograph, printer's manuscript (Nos. 23–29)
Score, print
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Dedication copy (P.S. Rung-Keller)
DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 3e.CNU Source E.
Performances
| 23 Jan. 1930 | Skovshoved Kirke, Copenhagen (performer: Poul Schierbeck, organ). First performance (excerpts). Review: Nationaltidende, 24 Jan. 1930 (August Felsing). |
| 19 Mar. 1930 | Sankt Johannes Kirke, Copenhagen (performer: Peter Thomsen, organ). First performance (complete). |
| 20 Oct. 1930 | Luther Kirken, Copenhagen (performer: Frantz Klæbel, organ). |
| 16 Apr. 1931 | Vor Frelsers Kirke, Oslo (performer: W. Huus-Hansen, organ). Excepts only. |
| 26 May 1931 | Aarhus Domkirke, Copenhagen (performer: Jørgen Nielsen, organ). number 21 & 24 only. |
Documents
Letters:
Diary entries:
Other other:
Carl Nielsen: ['29 smaa Præludier for Orgel, Op. 51']. Vor Ungdom, 53/1, pp. 46–47. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 191)
Rong (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Løftet, der ikke blev brudt'. Nationaltidende, 8 Jan. 1931. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 184)
Bibliography
Povl Hamburger: 'Ny Orgelmusik til Gudstjenestebrug'. Dansk Musiktidsskift, 5/8, 1930, pp. 165–68.
Peter Thomsen: 'Et orgelværk af Carl Nielsen'. Dansk Kirkemusiker-Tidende, 27/10, Oct. 1930, pp. 87–88.
Peter Thomsen: 'Carl Nielsens orgelpræludier'. Dansk Kirkemusiker-Tidende, 27/11, Nov. 1930, p. 98.
Knud Hjortø: '29 Præludier'. Vor Ungdom, 53/1, Apr. 1931, pp. 44–47.
Finn Viderø: 'Orgelværkerne', in: Jürgen Balzer (ed.): Carl Nielsen: i hundredåret for hans fødsel (Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck: Copenhagen 1965), pp. 65–69.
Finn Viderø: 'The Organ Works', in: Jürgen Balzer (ed.): Carl Nielsen Centenary Essays (Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck: Copenhagen 1965), pp. 69–73.
Torben Schousboe: 'Carl Nielsens præludier for orgel'. Organistbladet, 32/2, May 1966, pp. 20–27.
Torben Schousboe (ed.): Carl Nielsen: Dagbøger og brevveksling med Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag: Copenhagen 1983.
Jan Crummenerl: 'Carl Nielsen and his Organ Preludes in the Context of Hans Henny Jahnn, Hugo Distler and Ernst Pepping'. Carl Nielsen Studies, 5, 2012, pp. 11–25.
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