CNW 331XML

Carl Nielsen

Tanker skal tændes og skride

Thoughts must be lit, then exceeded

CNW 331
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 275

Author: Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1929.

The song was originally composed for male choir and orchestra as a movement to Kantate ved Polyteknisk Læreanstalts 100 Aars Jubilæum (CNW 112). The piano arrangement only survives in a letter from Nielsen to his daughter Irmelin dated 6 August 1929.

Instrumentation: pf.pianoforte (piano), (voice)
Andantino

Tanker skal tændes og skride

Thoughts must be lit, then exceeded

Score, autograph, fair copy

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

Letter of 6 Aug. 1929 from Carl Nielsen to Irmelin Eggert Møller.

CNU Source A.

Text, print

[Classification: Text, Print, First edition, Complete]

Printed in programme leaflet: Mødet med Jorden. Digtning ved Polyteknisk Læreanstalts 100-Aars Fest 1829 30. August 1929.

CNU Source B.

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