Carl Nielsen

Irmelin Rose, opus 4.4

(Se, der var en Gang en Konge)

Irmelin Rose, Opus 4.4

(Once there was a king)

Opus 4.4
CNW 119
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 4
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 163
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. In 1891, Nielsen and his wife named their first child Irmelin after the princess in Jacobsen's poem Irmelin Rose.

Marziale (med Humør)

Se, der var en Gang en Konge

Once there was a king