Holgers Sang om Livet

(Jeg saa kun tilbage)

Holger's Song About Life

Opus 77:3
HartW 457
DF 141:3

Author: B.S. Ingemann

Contained in:

Sange og Viser HartW Coll. 15
Romancer og Sange HartW Coll. 17

The song is part of B.S. Ingemann's "Holger Danske" from 1837 which consists of 67 poems. Hartmann sat music to three others: "Holger Danskes Vugge" (HartW 351); "Skriveren og Kejserens Datter" (HartW 359); and "Hilsen til Frænderne" (HartW 158), being the introductory poem. The cycle of poems tells the story of the legendary Danish national hero Holger Danske (Ogier the Dane) who appears for the first time in "The Song of Roland" from the mid-twelfth century as one of the knights of Charles the Great.

Instrumentation: voice, pf.pianoforte (piano)

Poco Andante ma energico

Jeg saa kun tilbage

Score, autograph, fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

36 pages; 34 x 26 cm.

Title page: trykt som Viser og Sange / Op. 77.

Written in brown ink. Paper: 12 staves. Title above the music: "III Holgers Sang om Livet". At the end of the music Hartmann has written: "Ingemann forkortet." (Ingemann abridged).

On pp. 24-27 in this manuscript.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 7 Hartmanns Samling 214 (Kapsel S - Studier).

Score, print, first edition

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

Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1880.

25 pages.

Title page: SANGE OG VISER / for / en Baryton- eller Mezzosopranstemme / med / PIANOFORTE / af / J.P.E. Hartmann. / Op. 77. / Forlæggerens Eiendom. / KJÖBENHAVN. / Wilhelm Hansens Musik-Forlag.

Pl. no.8182.

No. 3 on p. 7 in this collection.

Score, print, later edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Score, Later edition, Complete]

Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1885.

102 pages.

Title page: J.P.E. HARTMANN. / Romancer og Sange. / Ny af Komponisten revideret Udgave. / 2^den AFDELING. / Forlæggerens Eiendom. / KJÖBENHAVN. / Wilhelm Hansens Musik-Forlag,

On pp. 45-46 in this collection.

Richard Hove: J.P.E. Hartmann. Copenhagen 1934, p. 61.

Inger Sørensen: Hartmann - et dansk komponistdynasti. Copenhagen 1999, p. 443.

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