Carl Nielsen
Musik til Sophus Michaëlis' skuespil "Amor og Digteren"
Festspil
Music for Sophus Michaëlis's Play 'Cupid and the Poet'
Festival Play
CNW 23
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
I/9
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
333
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965.
150
Author: Sophus Michaëlis
Composition: 1930.
As early as November 1928, Nielsen was presented with the idea of composing music to the forthcoming celebration of H.C. Andersen in 1930. However, he and the programme committee did not come to an agreement, and it was not until February 1930 that he apparently started composing. From April he worked continuously, finishing the music for the play Amor og Digteren on 7 June 1930.
The Poet; The Boy (Cupid); The Diva
Music
Ouverture
Overture
Allegretto con brio
1.
AndanteOg ses maa under Sengen
2.
AndantinoHvad var det nu, jeg skrev?
3.
AndantinoDu Pebersvend! vor Sang du ved
4.
Andante quasi sostenutoHvad ved den om Tankerne mangen Nat
5.
Allegro moderatoDraabe haster efter Draabe
6.
Allegro risolutoNej, jeg vil ikke hvile mer
7.
AndanteDer fik du den til Punkt og Prikke
8. Aria (Italiensk Hyrdearie)
Aria (Italian Shepherd's Aria)
Andantino quasi allegrettoIn un boschetto trovai pastorella
9.
Varmt, men i bevæget Tempo / Warmly, but at a lively tempoVi elsker dig, vort høje Nord
10.
Andante sostenutoMed Vemod mindes jeg min stakkels Moder
11.
Andante tranquilloFra Fyrreskovens Kuppelsal
Sources
Score, sketches and drafts
Sketches
Piano score, sketch
Score, draft
Score, autograph, fair copy
Parts, manuscript copy
Parts, manuscript copy
Text, typewritten, carbon copy
Text, typewritten
Enclosed in the autograph fair copy of the score.
Performances
| 12 July 1930 | Odense Teater, Odense (The Royal Danish Orchestra (Det Kongelige Kapel); conductor: Carl Nielsen; performers: Thorkild Roose (The Poet); Mary Alice Therp (Jenny Lind); Susanne Behrens (Amor)). First performance. Reviews: Politiken, 13 July 1930. Politiken, 13 July 1930. Fyns Tidende, 13 July 1930 (Emil Telmányi). |
| 13 July 1930 | Odense Teater, Odense (conductor: Carl Nielsen). |
| 14 July 1930 | Odense Teater, Odense (conductor: Carl Nielsen). |
| 15 July 1930 | Odense Teater, Odense (conductor: Carl Nielsen). |
| 16 July 1930 | Odense Teater, Odense (conductor: Carl Nielsen). |
| 20 Oct. 1930 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (conductor: Emil Telmányi). Concert performance (excerpts) |
| 2 Mar. 1931 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (conductor: Emil Telmányi). Concert performance (excerpts) |
Documents
Letters:
Diary entries:
Other other:
Merete [Merete Bonnesen] (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Sveriges Hyldest til Carl Nielsen'. Politiken, 10 Dec. 1928. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 160)
Sv. Th. [Svend Thorsen] (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Festspillet om H.C. Andersen'. Fyns Tidende, 3 Apr. 1930. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 174)
Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Carl Nielsen om festspillet i Odense'. Berlingske Tidende, 4 July 1930. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 176)
Bibliography
Emil Telmányi: 'Omkring en ny Carl Nielsen-publikation'. Dansk Musiktidsskrift, 43/5, Sep. 1968, pp. 121–24.
Emil Telmányi: Af en musikers billedbog. Nyt Nordisk Forlag – Arnold Busk: Copenhagen 1978.
Jørgen Larsen: 'Carl Nielsen og H.C. Andersen – 'Amor og Digteren', 1930', in: Finn Grandt-Nielsen and Torben Grøngaard Jeppesen (eds.): Fynske Minder (Odense 1988), pp. 49-79.
Daniel Grimley: 'Nielsen on the Boulevard: Modernism and the Harlequinesque in Cupid and the Poet'. Carl Nielsen Studies, 5, 2012,
pp. 94–106. 
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