Carl Nielsen

Hellelidens Sang

(Helleliden aksler sin Kofte graa)

Little Helen

(Little Helen shoulders her peasant's coat)

CNW 132
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 17; I/7 (no. 5)
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 342
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 37

Author: Holger Drachmann

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1906.

Three songs from the melodrama Hr. Oluf han rider– (CNW 7) appeared in an arrangement for voice and piano shortly after the premiere of the melodrama in October 1906. The plates for the prints were engraved in November and December that year.

Quasi allegretto

Helleliden aksler sin Kofte graa

Little Helen shoulders her peasant's coat