Carl Nielsen
Koncert for fløjte og orkester
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
CNW 42
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
II/9
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
69
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965.
119
Composition: 1926.
Nielsen's concerto for flute and orchestra was composed over a short period of time, partly during a stay in Italy from August until October 1926. Originally, Nielsen had planned a work for clarinet and orchestra but changed his mind.
Sources
Score, manuscript copy
Score, draft
Score, draft (second movement)
Solo part, partly autograph, fair copy
Score, partly autograph, printer's manuscript
Orchestral parts, printer's manuscript
Performances
21 Oct. 1926 | Maison Gaveau, Salle de Concerts, Paris (L'Orchestre de la Societé des Concerts du Conservatoire; conductor: Emil Telmányi; performer: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, flute). First performance. Reviews: Comoedia, 24 Oct. 1926 (Paul Le Flem). Le Ménestrel, 29 Oct. 1926 (H. de Curzon). Le Courrier Musical & Théâtral, 1 Nov. 1926 (Maurice Imbert). Paris Telegram, 31 Oct. 1926 (Jan Meyerheim). New York Herald, 24 Oct. 1926 (Louis Schneider). Politiken, 26 Oct. 1926 (Arthur Honegger). |
8 Nov. 1926 | Week of Danish Music (Dansk Musikuge i Oslo), Oslo (Filharmonisk Selskabs Orkester; conductor: Carl Nielsen; performer: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, flute). Reviews: Tidens Tegn, 9 Nov. 1926. Morgenbladet, 9 Nov. 1926. |
25 Jan. 1927 | The Music Society (Musikforeningen), Copenhagen (conductor: Carl Nielsen; performer: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, flute). First performance in Denmark. Reviews: Berlingske Tidende, 26 Jan. 1927 (William Behrend). Dansk Musiktidsskrift, 2/5, 1927, p. 104 (Briegel-Müller). |
3 Sept. 1927 | Tivoli Concert Hall (Tivolis Koncertsal), Copenhagen (Tivoli Symphony Orchestra (Tivolis Symfoniorkester); conductor: Frederik Schnedler-Petersen; performer: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, flute). |
12 Feb. 1930 | Lorensbergsteatern, Copenhagen (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Carl Nielsen; performer: Herman Munchow, flute). |
1 Apr. 1930 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (Emil Telmányis Kammerorkester; performer: Holger Gilbert-Jespersen, flute). |
10 June 1931 | Tivoli Concert Hall (Tivolis Koncertsal), Copenhagen (Tivoli Symphony Orchestra (Tivolis Symfoniorkester); conductors: Carl Nielsen; Frederik Schnedler-Petersen). |
Documents
Letters:
Diary entries:
Other other:
G.B. (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Den fejrede Komponist'. Berlingske Tidende, 30 Oct. 1926. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 119)
Bibliography
Presto: 'Carl Nielsens sukces i Paris'. Dansk musiker-tidende, 16, 1926, pp. 240–41.
Robert Simpson: Carl Nielsen: Symphonist 1865–1931. London 1952, pp. 127–30.
Ole Gad: Carl Nielsens koncerter: den tematiske udformning og formale opbygning i Carl Nielsens koncerter med særligt henblik på hans ændrede opfattelse og udnyttelse af koncertformen. Master's thesis, University of Copenhagen: 1963.
Herbert Rosenberg: 'Koncerterne', in: Jürgen Balzer (ed.): Carl Nielsen: i hundredåret for hans fødsel (Nyt Nordisk Forlag – Arnold Busck: Copenhagen 1965), pp. 47–55.
Herbert Rosenberg: 'The Concertos', in: Jürgen Balzer (ed.): Carl Nielsen Centenary Essays (Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck: Copenhagen 1965).
Emil Telmányi: Af en musikers billedbog. Nyt Nordisk Forlag – Arnold Busck: Copenhagen 1978.
Robert Simpson: Carl Nielsen: Symphonist. New York 1979, pp. 140–42.
Kevin Maloney: 'The Nielsen Flute Concerto: A Performance Analysis'. Flute Journal, 1, Jan. 1982, pp. 4–15.
Ben Arnold: 'Tradition and Growth in the Concertos of Nielsen', in: Mina Miller (ed.): The Carl Nielsen Companion (London 1994), pp. 350–95.
Kirsten Flensborg Petersen: 'Emil Telmányis tilføjelser i Carl Nielsens violinkoncert og fløjtekoncert'. Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks samlinger, 41, 2002, pp. 213–31.
Michael Debost and Toke Lund Christiansen: 'Original manuskripts now available for Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto'. Flute Talk, 22/10, 2003, pp. 10–11, 18.
Amy Catherine Nelson: The Flute Concerto by Carl Nielsen and the contributions of Holger Gilbert-Jespersen (Denmark). University of Colorado at Boulder: 2003. DMA diss.
Tom Pankhurst: ''We never know where we'll end up': Nielsen's alternative endings to the Flute Concerto'. Carl Nielsen Studies, 2, 2005, pp. 132–151.
Kirsten Flensborg Petersen: 'Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto: form and revision of the ending'. Carl Nielsen Studies, 2, 2005, pp. 196–225.
Ryan Ross: 'Nielsen’s Arcadia: The Case of the Flute Concerto'. Carl Nielsen Studies, 5, 2012, pp. 280–301. Full text
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