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Carl Nielsen

Hymne til Danmark

(Danmark, i tusend Aar)

Hymn to Denmark

(Denmark, a thousand years)

CNW 226
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 111; III/6, 361, 390
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 156
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 86, 111

Author: Valdemar Rørdam

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Contained in:
Bidrag til "Melodier til Sangbogen 'Danmark'"  CNW Coll. 19
Arrangement of:
Kantate ved Grosserer-Societetets Hundredaarsfest (No. 9)  CNW 111
Arrangement not by Nielsen:
See Appendix

Composition: 1917.

The melody for Hymne til Danmark stems from the play Shakespeare (CNW 15), which Nielsen had composed in 1916. He re-used it in Kantate ved Grosserer-Societetets Hundredaarsfest (CNW 111) employing the new text 'Danmark, i tusend Aar'.

Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 111

Date: 1917.

Instrumentation: voice, pf.pianoforte (piano)
Kraftigt og værdigt

Danmark i tusend Aar

Denmark, a thousand years

Edition:
Carl Nielsen Edition

Score, draft

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Draft, 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 1917.
Title page: HYMNE / TIL / DANMARK / AF / VALDEMAR. RØRDAM / MUSIK . AF.CARL-NIELSEN / FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM FOR ALLE LANDE / KØBENHAVN & LEIPZIG / WILHELM.HANSEN-MUSIK FORLAG / KRISTIANIA. / NORSK MUSIK-FORLAG. / BRØDRENE HALS-WARMUTHWILHELM- HANSEN. / STOCKHOLM / A.B. NORDISKA MUSIKFÖRLAGET / SCHOLANDER-WILHELM HANSEN. / COPYRIGHT 1917 BY WILHELM HANSEN, LEIPZIG. / II
CNU Source A.
28 June 1919 Tivoli, Glassalen, Copenhagen (performer: Ingvar Nielsen, singer; conductor: Ferdinand Hemme).

Version for women's choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 390

Date: 1917.

Instrumentation: Choir: S.soprano, A.alto

Danmark i tusind Aar

Denmark, a thousand years

Edition:
Carl Nielsen Edition

Version for voices in unison

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 361

Date: 1924.

Instrumentation: voice

Danmark i tusind Aar

Denmark, a thousand years

Edition:
Carl Nielsen Edition

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition, Complete]
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1924.
Title page: MELODIER / TIL / SANGBOGEN / ‘DANMARK’ / SAMLET OG UDGIVET TIL BRUG / FOR SKOLE OG HJEM / AF / CARL NIELSEN OG HAKON ANDERSEN / FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM / KØBENHAVN & LEIPZIG / WILHELM HANSEN, MUSIK-FORLAG / OSLO / NORSK MUSIKFORLAG / STOCKHOLM / A. B. NORDISKA MUSIK FÖRLAGET
CNU Source A.

Text, print

[Classification: Text, Print, Later edition, Complete]
Copenhagen 1924.

Printed in: Danmark. Sangbog for Skolen og Hjemmet.

CNU Source B.

Letters:

6 Oct. 1930   from Carl Nielsen to Wilhelm Hansen, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København WHA. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. XI/305; CNL 701)

Kirsten Flensborg Petersen: '"Danmark, i tusind Aar" – sangens tekst, tilblivelse og reception', in: John T. Lauridsen and Olaf Olsen (eds.): Umisteligt. Festskrift til Erland Kolding Nielsen (Copenhagen 2007), pp. 283–98.


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