Carl Nielsen

Solnedgang

(Svømmende Skyer, dejlige Cyclader)

Sunset

(Clouds floating by you, cyclades of beauty)

CNW 287
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 424
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 233
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 13

Author: J.P. Jacobsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 25 May 1893.

According to his diary Nielsen re-composed Solnedgang on 25 May 1893. The previous year he had published a setting of the same poem in his collection op. 4 (CNW Coll. 1).

Andantino

Svømmende Skyer

Clouds floating by you