Carl Nielsen

See also: Nielsen

Carl August Nielsen (born the June 9th 1865 in Fyn close to Odense - died the October 3rd 1931 with Copenhagen) is most known of the type-setters Danish. Its fame, established well in Denmark, is however without common measurement, on the international plan, with that of the Scandinavian type-setters Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius.

Biography

It is resulting from an large family and very modest. His/her father was farm laborer, but also officiated as musician of the village and he learned how to play of the violin to his children.

Carl Nielsen married the painter and sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen (born Brodersen) and they had a girl Anne Marie Frederikke Telmanyi .

He wrote six Symphonie S to which the three last testify to an incomparable expressive power (the Adagio S of the fourth and sixth anticipient on those of the symphonies of Dmitri Chostakovitch and count among more tearing XXe century), just like of a crossbred violence of black humor (last movement of the fourth, first movement of the fifth) such as will not equalize it, with difficulty, there too, which the school Russo-Soviet. Nielsen, which was also Violoniste virtuoso, also wrote remarkable a Concerto for this instrument; work was redécouverte by Yehudi Menuhin. He also wrote ballets ( Aladdin , for full orchestra and mixed choruses), of the operas ( Saül and David ) and of the Lied er.

Contrary to that of its Sibelius contemporary, the harmonic language of Nielsen does not grow rich by a popular inspiration, and its music is not with the listening of nature. Nielsen was regarded as a heir to the Classicisme and Johannes Brahms, of which it emulated the rigor in the construction and the absence of sentimentalism. It expresses however in its three last symphonies, written between 1914 and 1925, the anguish and tearings of its time, thus also, in the second movement of the last symphony, its skepticism with respect to the new musical currents of its time. The Triptyque that these three masterpieces form is of nothing lower, from the point of view of the unit spiritual and the homogeneity of the inspiration, with the group of the symphonies n°4, 5 and 6 of Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski and with that, more similar still, of the symphonies n°5, 6 and 7 of Gustav Mahler.

Work

  • Operas
    • Snefrid, melodrama (1893)
    • Saul and David (1902)
    • Maskarade (1906)

  • orchestral Music

    • Small Continuation (1888)
    • Symphony n° 1 in minor ground (1891-1894)
    • Symphony n° 2, " Four tempéraments" (1902)
    • Symphony n° 3, " Espansiva" (1911)
    • Symphony n° 4, " Inextinguible" (1916)
    • Symphony n° 5 (1922)
    • Symphony n° 6, " Semplice" (1925)
    • Photogravure (1903)
    • Sagadrom (the dream of Gunnar) (1908)
    • Concerto for violin (1911)
    • Side and Syrinx (1918)
    • Franz Neruda in memoriam (1918)
    • 7 Parts according to " Aladdin" (1919)
    • Concerto for flute (1926)
    • an imaginary voyage towards the Faroe Islands (1927)
    • Concerto for clarinet (1928)
    • bohémo-Danish Music (1928)

  • Music choral society

    • Hymnus amoris (1897)
    • Søvnen (the sleep) (1904)
    • Fynsk foraar (Spring on Fyn) (1921)
    • Hyldest til Holberg (Homage to Holberg) (1922)
    • 3 motets (1929)
    • Anthem til Kunsten (Anthem with Art) (1929)
    • Various cantatas, of which that for the 50e birthday of the Danish union (1931)

  • Music for voice soloist

    • 40 Danish songs (1914, 1917), collab. T. Laub
    • 20 popular melodies (1921)
    • 10 small Danish songs (1924)

  • chamber music

    • String quartet in minor ground (1888)
    • String quartet in G major (1888)
    • String quartet in minor F (1890)
    • String quartet in E flat (1898)
    • String quartet in major F (1919)
    • Sonata for violin in ground (1882)
    • Sonata for violin n° 1 (1895)
    • Sonata for violin n° 2 (1919)
    • Ved in ung Kunstners Baare (With the burial of a young artist) (1910)
    • Serenata In Vano for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violoncello and double bass (1914)
    • Wind quintet (1922)
    • Prelude and topic with variations (1923)

  • Piano music

    • 2 parts characteristic (c.1882-3)
    • 5 Parts (1890)
    • symphonic Continuation (1894)
    • 6 Humoresque-Trifles (1894-7)
    • festive Prelude in the honor of the new century (1899)
    • Chaconne (1916)
    • Topic and variations (1917)
    • Continuation (1920)
    • Tre Klaverstykker (Three parts for keyboard) (1928)
    • Piano music for young people and more old man, 24 parts for five fingers (1930)

  • Music for Organ

    • 29 short preludes (1929)
    • 2 preludes (1930)
    • Commotio (1931)

Selective discography

External bonds

  • chronological Catalog

Simple: Carl Nielsen

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