Carl Nielsen

Wo Dætter

(Hun æ så møj en hwalle Piig)

Our Daughter

(She is a blithe and decent girl)

CNW 273
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 193
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 275
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 115

Author: Anton Berntsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1924 and 1925.

In 1924–25, Nielsen composed melodies to Anton Berntsen's poems written in the Jutland dialect. Not much is known about the genesis of the compositions. Though Nielsen did not conceive the four songs as an entity they were, nevertheless, published as a collection in 1941. It seems probable that the concert singer Anker Olesen might have encouraged Carl Nielsen til compose music to this poem.

Blidt og inderligt

Hun æ så møj en hwale Piig

She is a blithe and decent girl