Carl Nielsen

Og jeg vil drage fra Sydens Blommer

The South I'm leaving

CNW 304
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 239; III/6, 421
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 213
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 75

Author: Holger Drachmann

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1914.

Nielsen must have composed this song in a single-line version in 1914, since Dansk Sangbog by Johan Borup refers to Nielsen's melody; however, the melody was not printed until 1916. A version for voice and piano survives in manuscript.

Version for unison voices

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/6, 421

Date: 1914.

Bredt svingende

Og jeg vil drage fra Sydens Blommer

The South I'm leaving

Version for voice and piano

CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 239

Date: 1916.

This version was likely composed in the first half of 1916 and was probably intended for the second volume of En Snes danske Viser (1917, CNW Coll. 11). It was withdrawn from the collection, and the version exists in an autograph fair copy only.

Med længselsfuld Bevægelse

Og jeg vil drage fra Sydens Blommer

The South I'm leaving