Carl Nielsen

Hymne til Danmark

(Danmark, i tusend Aar)

Hymn to Denmark

(Denmark, a thousand years)

CNW 226
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 111; III/6, 361, 390
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 156
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 86, 111

Author: Valdemar Rørdam

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1917.

The melody for Hymne til Danmark stems from the play Shakespeare (CNW 15), which Nielsen had composed in 1916. He re-used it in Kantate ved Grosserer-Societetets Hundredaarsfest (CNW 111) employing the new text 'Danmark, i tusend Aar'.

Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/4, 111

Date: 1917.

Kraftigt og værdigt

Danmark i tusend Aar

Denmark, a thousand years

Version for women's choir

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 390

Date: 1917.

Danmark i tusind Aar

Denmark, a thousand years

Version for voices in unison

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 361

Date: 1924.

Danmark i tusind Aar

Denmark, a thousand years

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