Carl Nielsen

Til min Fødeø

(Blidt vugges du i Himmelseng)

To My Native Island

(You're gently rocked in blissful bed)

CNW 364
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 331
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 306
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 144

Author: S.P. Raben-Korch

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 26 Nov. 1929.

The work was composed on request by the author of the text, S.P. Raben-Korch. He sent the poem to Nielsen on 15 October 1928. According to his diary, Nielsen did not take up the task until one year later, on 26 November 1929. The fair copy was end-dated the following day.

Andante

Blidt vugges du i Himmelseng

You're gently rocked in blissful bed