Carl Nielsen

Stille, Guds Folk, o bøj dig ned

Silent, people of God, oh you bend down

CNW 297
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 425
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 242
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 83

Author: Text based on the Greek liturgy of St Jacob (fourth century)
Translator: I. A. (free translation, 1908)

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: Between 1913 and 1914.

The composition is one of two rejected songs from the collection Salmer og aandelige Sange (CNW Coll. 10) that have only survived in drafts; the other one is CNW 298.

Stille, Guds Folk, o bøj dig ned