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Carl Nielsen

Hør, hvor let dens Vinger smækker

Listen, how its pinions scuttle

CNW 223
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 108
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 245
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 75, 78

Author: Jeppe Aakjær

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Contained in:
Bidrag til "En Snes danske Viser" (1917)  CNW Coll. 11
Bidrag til "Nye Melodier til de nyere Sangtekster i Johan Borups Dansk Sangbog"  CNW Coll. 12

Composition: 23 Dec. 1914.

According to his diary, Nielsen composed the melody on 23 December 1914. It might originally have been intended for the first volume of En Snes danske Viser (1915, CNW Coll. 9). For some unknown reason, the melody was only later included in the second volume of 1917.

13 Apr. 1917 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (instrumentalist: Salomon Levysohn, piano; singers: Emilie Ulrich; Anders Brems; Carl Madsen). First performance.
5 Oct. 1917 Ryslinge Folkehøjskole, Ryslinge (Musicians from Funen (Fynske Musikantere)).
13 Mar. 1922 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Christian Gottschalch, singer; Svend Egede-Lassen, piano).
8 Oct. 1922 (performers: Christian Gottschalch, singer; Valdemar Willumsen, piano).
25 June 1923 Tivoli Concert Hall (Tivolis Koncertsal), Copenhagen (performers: Christian Gottschalch, singer; Carl Schnedler-Meyer, piano).
24 Sept. 1925 Ryvang Radio, Copenhagen (performers: Christian Gottschalch, singer; Carl Schnedler-Meyer, piano).
16 Feb. 1926 Musikkonservatoriets Sal, Copenhagen (performers: Yrsa Liisberg, singer; Otto Olsen, piano).
23 Feb. 1928 Radiostudiet, Købmagergade, Copenhagen (performers: Kai Ole Buch, singer; C. Gerson-Trier, piano).
9 Dec. 1928 Axelborg, Copenhagen (performers: Kaj Oluf Buch, singer; Victor Fischer, piano).
5 Sept. 1929 Axelborg, Copenhagen (performer: Inger Borchsenius, singer(?)).
24 Mar. 1930 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Kaj Oluf Buch, singer; Otto Olsen, piano).
19 Feb. 1931 Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Nora Elé, singer; Hans Almdahl, piano).
25 Mar. 1931 (performer: Sylvia Schierbeck, singer). swedish radio?
17 Apr. 1931 Hornung & Møllers Koncertsal, Copenhagen (performers: Nora Elé, singer; Karen Madelaire Pfeiffer, piano).
23 May 1931 Axelborg, Copenhagen (performers: Søren Stein, singer; Folmer Jensen, piano).

Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 108

Date: 1914.

Instrumentation: voice, pf.pianoforte (piano)
Fint og let

Hør, hvor let dens Vinger smækker

Listen, how its pinions scuttle

Edition:
Carl Nielsen Edition

Score, autograph, fair copy

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

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1917.
Title page: Carl Nielsen / og / Thomas Laub / En Snes danske Viser / 1917 / 2den Samling / FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM FOR ALLE LANDE. / KJØBENHAVN & LEIPZIG. / WILHELM HANSEN, MUSIK-FORLAG / Copyright 1917 by Wilhelm Hansen, Leipzig.
CNU Source A.

Text, print

[Classification: Text, Print, Complete]
Copenhagen 1912.

Printed in: Jeppe Aakjær, Samlede Digte.

CNU Source D.

Text, print

[Classification: Text, Print, Complete]
Copenhagen 1914.

Printed in: Dansk Sangbog, ed. Johan Borup.

CNU Source E.

Version for voices in unison

Date: 1916.

Instrumentation: voice
Let og muntert

Hør, hvor let dens Vinger smækker

Listen, how its pinions scuttle

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Complete]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1916.
Title page: Nye Melodier / til / de nyere Sangtekster / i / Johan Borups / Dansk Sangbog / redigeret / af / Carl Nielsen / FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM / KJØBENHAVN & LEIPZIG / WILHELM HANSEN, MUSIK-FORLAG

Letters:

17 Sept. 1916   from Carl Nielsen to Thorvald Aagaard, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IAc. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. V/424)

Diary entries:

23 Dec. 1914   DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNACarl Nielsen Arkivet (The Carl Nielsen Archive, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) IC. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. V/178; T SchTorben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen. Dagbøger og brevveksling med Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1983. 394)

Anne-Marie Reynolds: 'Carl Nielsen's 'Folk-like' Songs and the 'Danish National Tone''. Carl Nielsen Studies, IV, 2009, pp. 145–163.

Anne-Marie Reynolds: Carl Nielsen's Voice. His Songs in Context. Museum Tusculanum Press: Copenhagen 2010, pp. 183–184.


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