Carl Nielsen

Den jenn å den anden

(Den jenn ska studier bådde Græsk å Latin)

The One and the Other

(The one studies Latin and Greek until late)

CNW 274
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 194
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 95
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 115

Author: Anton Berntsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1924.

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 Nielsen til compose music to this poem.

Ikke langsomt, Marschtempo

Den jenn ska studier både Græsk å Latin

The one studies Latin and Greek until late