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Carl Nielsen

Tre stykker for langeleg

Three Pieces for Langeleik

CNW 71
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) II/11
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 77

Carl Nielsen Edition

Composition: 1918.

Nielsen's three pieces for langeleik were composed in 1918 at the request of the music historian Hortense Panum; she hoped to foster an interest in the old Norwegian folk instrument.

Instrumentation: langeleik

1. Naar Solen skinner
When the Sun Shines

Allegro

2. Det tunge Budskab
The Sad News

Andante

3. Som Fisken i Vandet
Like a Fish in the Water

Allegretto

Score, print

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, First edition]

Printed in: Hortense Panum: Langelegen som dansk Folkeinstrument, vol. 2, pp. 2–3. Lehmann & Stage (P. Haase), Copenhagen.

CNU Source A.

Letters:

23 Aug. 1918   from Carl Nielsen to Hortense Panum, DK-KmMusikmuseet, Frederiksberg Hortense Panums papirer. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. VI/104)
3 Sept. 1918   from Carl Nielsen to Hortense Panum, DK-KmMusikmuseet, Frederiksberg Hortense Panums papirer. (CNBJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven. Multivers: Copenhagen 2005–2015. VI/117)

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