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Carl Nielsen

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How wonderful to ponder

CNW 165
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 50
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 124
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 83

Author: Hans Adolph Brorson; adapted by N.F.S. Grundtvig

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Contained in:
Salmer og aandelige Sange  CNW Coll. 10

Composition: Feb. 1914.

In a letter from February 1914 to his wife, Nielsen mentions having composed the hymn. From a surviving draft, it is clear that Nielsen's pupil, Paul Hellmuth, helped with the harmonization. Later the hymn was better known with Hans Adolph Brorson's original version of the text, 'Mit hjerte altid vanker'.

Instrumentation: pf.pianoforte (piano)/SATBsoprano, alto, tenore, basso (mixed choir)

Forunderligt at sige

How wonderful to ponder

Edition:
Carl Nielsen Edition

Score, partly autograph, draft

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Partly autograph, Score, Draft, Complete]

Melody written by Nielsen, harmonization by Paul Hellmuth.

Score, autograph, fair copy

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

Score, autograph, printer's manuscript

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

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1919.
Title page: Wilhelm Hansen Edition. No. 1985 / SALMER OG AANDELiGE SANGE / HALVHUNDRED NYE MELODIER FOR / HJEM * KIRKE OG SKOLE / Komponerede af CARL NiELSEN / FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM FOR ALLE LANDE / KØBENHAVN & LEIPZIG / WILHELM HANSEN, MUSIK-FORLAG / KRISTIANIA & BERGEN / NORSK MUSIK-FORLAG / Brødrene Hals – Warmuth – Wilhelm Hansen. / STOCKHOLM & GÖTEBORG / A.B. NORDISKA MUSIKFÖRLAGET / Copyright 1919 by Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen
CNU Source A.

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Complete]
[1923].
Title page: Aarhus Madrigalkor. / H.

Undated print with no indication of publisher; contains also Under Korset stod med Smerte (CNW 198).

12 Mar. 1914 Vor Frue Kirke, Copenhagen (performers: Niels Rudolph Gade, singer; Karl Straube, organ).
23 Mar. 1914 Aarhus Domkirke, Aarhus (performers: Anders Brems, singer; Arthur Allin, organ).
14 Dec. 1917 Frederikskirken, Copenhagen (performers: Margarethe Lendrop, singer; Birkedal-Barfod, organ). Berlingske Tidendes Julekoncert.
28 Dec. 1917 Nyborg Kirke, Nyborg (performer: Margarethe Lendrop, singer).
19 Mar. 1918 Skovshoved Kirke, Copenhagen (performers: Sylvia Larsen, singer; Poul Schierbeck, organ).
21 Sept. 1919 Skovshoved Kirke, Copenhagen (performer: Ellen Beck, singer).
7 Mar. 1920 Vordingborg Kirke, Vordingborg (performers: Niels Rudolph Gade, singer; J. L. Emborg, organ).
4 Mar. 1921 Sct. Bendts Kirke, Ringsted (performers: Ingeborg Steffensen, singer; Emilius Bangert, organ).
3 Feb. 1922 Vor Frue Kirke, Odense (performers: Else Gether-Poulsen, singer; N. O. Raasted, organ).
7 Nov. 1923 Aarhus Domkirke, Aarhus (Aarhus Madrigalkor; conductor: Holger Blichfeldt).
23 Dec. 1925 Ryvang Radio, Copenhagen (performers: Poul Knudsen, singer; Frantz Klæbel, organ).
11 Nov. 1927 Hans Tavsens Kirke, Copenhagen (performers: H. A. Riis-Christensen, singer; Hans Lindskrog, organ).
25 Oct. 1929 Vor Frue Kirke, Copenhagen (performer: Niels Rudolph Gade, singer).
25 Dec. 1929 Axelborg, Copenhagen (Vilhelm Michelsen-Kvartetten).
7 Dec. 1930 Vor Frelsers Kirke, Esbjerg (performers: F. Behrens Clausen, organ; Lilly Lamprecht, singer).
8 Dec. 1930 Ribe Domkirke, Ribe (performers: Behrens Clausen, organ; Lilly Lamprecht, singer).
17 Dec. 1930 Vor Frue Kirke, Copenhagen (performers: Marius Jacobsen, singer; Paul Nicolet, organ?).
24 Dec. 1930 Axelborg, Copenhagen (performers: Harriet Vendelhaven, singer; Victor Fischer, piano).

Letters:

28 Feb. 1914   from Carl Nielsen to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IIAa. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. V/43; T SchTorben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen. Dagbøger og brevveksling med Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1983. 376; CNL 329)
9 Mar. 1914   from Carl Nielsen to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IIAa. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. V/52; T SchTorben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen. Dagbøger og brevveksling med Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1983. 379)
17 Mar. 1914   from Valdemar Brücker to Carl Nielsen, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IAb. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. V/58)
11 Dec. 1930   from Tage Kjer to Carl Nielsen, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IAb. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. XI/387)

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