Carl Nielsen

Afholdssangen

(Frem til Frihed til Lys og til Lykke)

Temperance Song

(On to freedom, to light and to pleasure)

CNW 290
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 226
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 72
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 55

Author: Moldberg-Kjeldsen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1909.

Encouraged by a local temperance society in Aarhus, Nielsen agreed to compose a melody to the poem by Moldberg-Kjeldsen; he sent the music with a letter to the poet on 30 May 1909.

Marschtempo

Frem til Frihed til Lys og Lykke

On to freedom, to light and to pleasure