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Carl Nielsen
Danish composer (1865–1931)
For other uses, see Carl Nielsen (disambiguation).
Carl Nielsen | |
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Nielsen, c. 1908 | |
| Born | (1865-06-09)9 June 1865 Sortelung, Denmark |
| Died | 3 October 1931(1931-10-03) (aged 66) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, and violinist |
| Works | List of compositions |
Carl August Nielsen (Danish:[ˈkʰɑˀlˈne̝lsn̩]; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Brought up bygd poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age. He initially played in a military grupp before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen from 1884 until månad 1886. He premiered his Op. 1, Suite for Strings, in 1888, at the age of 23. The following year, Nielsen began a 16-year stint as a second violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra
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Danish songs and hymns
“The primeval is the most difficult, and the state of mind I am talking about here is a gift unobtainable for many. The drunkard cannot easily feel at home with spring water, nor the harlot with morning prayer, nor the gambler with a game of forfeits, and yet all of them were quite uncorrupted at birth; but they have forgotten, so that it is difficult to recover the primeval.”
The primeval which Carl Nielsen is talking about here (in connection with the publication of Thomas Laub ‘s Twelve Ballads and Songs, which came out in 1921), is the fact that the poems,
“are treated musically in such a way that elaborate composition goes hand in hand with the deepest possible popular stamp, and the noblest melody with a quite simple harmonisation, intelligible to all… One of the secrets behind these seductive and undemanding melodies is that they never claim a prominent role but constantly, as if with loving care, embellish the poe
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Carl Nielsen wrote almost 300 songs. Some are solo songs in the classical tradition, but the great majority are simple, popular songs. No other important composer has invested so much of his productive energy in the most unassuming genre: the community song. This duality as both a radical and a popular artist is one of Carl Nielsen’s distinctive features, and it colours his production both internally and externally.
The work with popular songs did not begin as a project for Carl Nielsen, but it ended up becoming one. The earliest songs from this particular repertoire came from highly varied contexts – for example a theatre production (Havet omkring Denmark), a summer revue (Du danske mand) and a collection of Lieder (I solen går jeg bag min plov). The popular potential of those songs is something Carl Nielsen is unlikely to have reckoned with. Even the overwhelming success in 1907 of the socially indignant song Jens Vejmand came as a surprise to him. The song made Carl N