Carl Nielsen

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) was a Danish musician often seen as his country’s greatest composer who now occupies a distinguished platform in the national and cultural heritage of his native land. The Carl Nielsen Edition is an independent project which aims to publish all of his finished works in the version last approved by the composer. The Quartet for Strings in G minor (Op. 13) is the earliest of Nielsen's four published quartets having been composed in 1887-1888 but it was not published for over a decade. It comprises four movements: Allegro Energico - Andante Amoroso - Scherzo. Allegro Molto - Finale. Allegro(Inquieto).

A critical revision of Neilsen's Op.45 for Piano with extensive performance notes from Mina F. Miller. The piece itself is followed by a generous chapter filled with musicological and historical detail to inspire and guide a performance that gives careful regards to the composer's aesthetic intentions. The piece itself is a complex and challenging suite littered with intense chromatic harmonies and violent rhythms structured as a six-movement Sonata.

Orchestral parts for Carl Nielsen's incidental music for Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersens Homage to Holberg / Hyldest til Holberg dating from 1922. For Soli Choir and Orchestra. Text in Danish.

Full score for Carl Nielsen's Symphonic Rhapsody (1888). Corresponding to The Carl Nielsen Edition Vol. 8. This allegro movement for symphony orchestra composed in 1888 when Carl Nielsen was in his early twenties was originally conceived as the first movement of a symphony as is evident from the autograph title Symfoni on the first page of music of the ink fair copy. However Carl Nielsen never composed the whole symphony. On 26th February 1893 when the piece was given its first performance conducted by Victor Bendix it was as an independent movement. Two days before the first performance Carl Nielsen noted in his diary: “To a rehearsal ofmy symphonic movement for the People’s Concert. The piece has been given the title ‘Symphonic Rhapsody’. It sounds fine and although it now seems naive to me there is still so much of my own and such a good attitude in the piece that I think it is rather good all the same.” (Thomas Michelsen editor)

Fantasistykker Op.2 (1889) by Carl Nielsen. Arranged for Oboe Violin Viola and Cello by Hans Abrahamsen in 1988.I. Romanze - Andante con duoloII. Humoresque - Allegretto Scherzando

Carl Nielsen's 5 Preludes as arranged for Brass Quintet by Mogens Andresen. Score and Parts. Play Brass No.10

The principal post-Romantic Danish composer Carl Nielsen was born in 1865 the son of a painter and village musician. Childhood experience as an amateur performer led to subsidised study at the Copenhagen Conservatory and a long career during which he developed his own personal style of composition in particular in a series of important symphonies. This string quartet includes score and parts.

Carl Nielsen's Koncert from Opus 57 is a work for Clarinet and Orchestra. This edition features a Piano reduction of the original Orchestral Score with Clarinet solo part. Originally composed in 1928, this edition is based on the revised score published by the Carl Nielsen Edition in 2002.

Parts for Carl Nielsen's Ouverture 'Helios' Op.17 (1903). Corresponding to The Carl Nielsen Edition Vol. 7

Af Sommernattågernes Spind - Six songs by Carl Nielsen and Ludvig Holstein expertly arranged for Mixed Choir SATB and Wind Quintet by Per Drud Nielsen (2015).

Carl Nielsen is now widely celebrated as Denmark’s greatest composer particularly for his symphonies which range from late Romantic explorations to more audacious neo-classicism in the later years. In the tone poem Pan and Syrinx Nielsen began to express some of his more adventurous harmonies and timbres which he then expressed more fully and in more abstract form in his masterpiece Fifth Symphony. Nielsen had an obsession with ancient Greece and its myths and the inspiration for Pan and Syrinx is drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The story concerns the chaste nymph Syrinx who is chased by Pan to the river’s edge where the river nymphs grant her request for assistance bytransforming her into water reeds. From the reeds Pan fashioned his original set of panpipes. Nielsen’s short work expresses the natural world the conflict between the male and female forces the anxiety of chase and transformation and the unsettled ending of the tale. Nielsen frequently chose it for performance when he created a program of his own works. The Orchestral colours are original and striking and display the composer’s restless inventiveness.

This work was commissioned by the Carl Nielsen String Quartet. Parts available: SOS02994-01