Carl Nielsen

Tanker skal tændes og skride

Thoughts must be lit, then exceeded

CNW 331
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. The Royal Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 275

Author: Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1929.

The song was originally composed for male choir and orchestra as a movement to Kantate ved Polyteknisk Læreanstalts 100 Aars Jubilæum (CNW 112). The piano arrangement only survives in a letter from Nielsen to his daughter Irmelin dated 6 August 1929.

Andantino

Tanker skal tændes og skride

Thoughts must be lit, then exceeded