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Carl Nielsen

Balladen om Bjørnen, opus 47

(De dræbte Bjørnens Unger)

Ballad of the Bear, Opus 47

(The bear's two cubs were murdered)

Opus 47
CNW 315
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 251
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 78
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 109

Author: Aage Berntsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1923.

Balladen om Bjørnen is by far the weightiest among the relatively few large-scale art-songs from Nielsen's later years. The text was written by Aage Berntsen at Nielsen's request. The ink fair copy is end-dated 9 January 1924, though he already on 15 November 1923 wrote to his son-in-law that he had finished the work.

Instrumentation: voice, pf.pianoforte (piano)
Tempo giusto

De dræbte Bjørnens Unger

The bear's two cups were murdered

Edition:
Carl Nielsen Edition

Score, draft

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Draft, Complete]

Score, autograph, fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

Score, manuscript copy, printer's manuscript

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Score, printer's copy, Complete]

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1924.
Title page: Anders Brems venskabeligst tilegnet / Balladen om Bjørnen / Vers af / Aage Berntsen / efter Motiv fra den svenske Digter / Ahlmquist / Musik af / Carl Nielsen / Op. 47 / FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM FOR ALLE LANDE / KØBENHAVN & LEIPZIG. / WILHELM HANSEN, MUSIK-FORLAG. / KRISTIANIA & BERGEN / NORSK MUSIK-FORLAG. / GÖTEBORG – STOCKHOLM – MALMÖ / A.B. NORDISKA MUSIKFÖRLAGET. / Copyright 1924 by Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen
CNU Source A.
13 Mar. 1924 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Anders Brems, singer; Christian Christiansen, piano). First performance.
Review: Politiken, 16 Mar. 1924 (Hugo Seligmann).
12 Mar. 1925 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Nora Elé, singer; Anders Brems, singer; Gunnar Johansen, piano).
21 Nov. 1925 University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (performers: Anders Brems, singer; Christian Christiansen, piano).
8 Feb. 1926 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Henry Skjær, singer; Harald Agersnap, piano).

Letters:

15 Nov. 1923   from Carl Nielsen to Emil Telmányi, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen). (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. VII/579; CNL 526)
3 Apr. 1924   from Carl Nielsen to Emil Telmányi, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen). (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. VIII/37)
13 Mar. 1924   from Carl Nielsen to Emil Telmányi, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen). (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. VIII/23)
1924-05   from Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen to Carl Nielsen, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IAa1. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. VIII/60; T SchTorben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen. Dagbøger og brevveksling med Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1983. 472)

Kirsten Larsen: Carl Nielsens romancer, deres egenart og deres stilling i den danske sangs egen historie. Aarhus University: 1963. Speciale.


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