Carl Nielsen
Nu ruger paa Reden i Fjer og Straa
On straw and on feather the brooding call
CNW 389
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 273; III/6, 398
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 198
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 111
Author: Ludvig Holstein
Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)
Composition: Between 1926 and 1927.
The melody was presumably intended for the revised edition of Melodier til Sangbogen "Danmark", which, however, only appeared in 1940 after Nielsen's death. Both versions survive in an autograph manuscript.
Version for women's/children's choir
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 398
Date: Between 1926 and 1927.
Nu ruger paa Reden i Fjer og Straa
On straw and on feather the brooding call
Score, draft
Score, autograph, fair copy
Text, print
Printed in: Dansk Sangbog, ed. Johan Borup
Version for piano (with text)
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 273
Date: 1929.
Nu ruger paa Reden i Fjer og Straa
On straw and on feather the brooding call
Score, draft
Text, print
Printed in: Tillæg til Danmark, Sangbog for Skolen og Hjemmet, ed. Albert Jørgensen
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