Carl Nielsen

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CNW 265
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 185; III/6 370, 407
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 240
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 111, 114, 120

Author: Jeppe Aakjær

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1924.

Nielsen composed the melody during the first months of 1924 on his publisher's request. Later, he remembered that Thorvald Aagaard had already composed a melody for the same text which led to a dispute between Nielsen and Thomas Laub.

Version for children's choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 370

Date: 1924.

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Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 185

Date: [1924].

Stille, men ikke for langsomt

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Version for voices in unison

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 407

Date: 1926.

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