Carl Nielsen

Gade

Gade

CNW 413
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) IV/1, Add. 46
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 358a

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: Between 1888 and 1891.

During 1888–91, Nielsen used a little leather-bound sketchbook in which he notated sketches and ideas for his compositions. The earliest complete movement is Gade on the notes G-A-D-E. The movement is not dated, but it may well have been composed under the immediate impression of Gade's death in December 1890, which moved Nielsen deeply.