Carl Nielsen

I Seraillets Have, opus 4.2

(Rosen sænker sit Hoved tungt af Dug og Duft)

In Seraglio Garden, Opus 4.2

(Roses lower their heads, weighed down by fragrant dew)

Opus 4.2
CNW 117
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 2
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 161
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 12

Author: J.P. Jacobsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: [1892].

The exact date of composition is unknown, but Nielsen was most likely working on the song in the years before the publication of Op. 4 when he, according to various sources, was engaged with setting music to texts by J.P. Jacobsen.

Andantino

Rosen sænker sit Hoved tungt af Dug og Duft

Roses lowr their heads, weighed down by fragrant dew