Carl Nielsen

Nu ruger paa Reden i Fjer og Straa

On straw and on feather the brooding call

CNW 389
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 273; III/6, 398
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 198
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 111

Author: Ludvig Holstein

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1926 and 1927.

The melody was presumably intended for the revised edition of Melodier til Sangbogen "Danmark", which, however, only appeared in 1940 after Nielsen's death. Both versions survive in an autograph manuscript.

Version for women's/children's choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 398

Date: Between 1926 and 1927.

Nu ruger paa Reden i Fjer og Straa

On straw and on feather the brooding call

Version for piano (with text)

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 273

Date: 1929.

Nu ruger paa Reden i Fjer og Straa

On straw and on feather the brooding call