Symphony n° 4 of Nielsen

The Symphony COp 29, " Inextinguible" is the fourth of the 6 Symphonie S, written by Carl Nielsen between 1914 and 1916 (either nearly three years after its third symphony).

It begins the writing in August 1914 of it, to have shortly after left its administrative duties of the royal orchestra of Copenhagen. Its original intention was to write a work describing the power of vital flow, which gave its title Inextinguible . Its genesis was long and difficult. It is completed on January 27th 1916, that is to say five days before its creation (on February 1st 1916 under the direction of the type-setter, near a selected public). The first, public, takes place on April 14th 1916.

Nielsen writes in 1938 an explanatory leaflet: “the music is Vie: as soon as an isolated note resounds in the air or space, it is the result of the Life and the movement. This is why the music is the most significant expression of the life instinct. This symphony describes the most primitive sources of vital flow and the happiness of its perception, i.e., which touch the human being, the animal world and plant as it can be perceived or lived. This music is not based on a program describing its evolution in a space and a limited time, but an outline of the vital emotional layers which remain semi-chaotic and primitive…” . He concludes by this sentence: “the music is the life, like it, inextinguishable”

It comprises four movements and its execution requires approximately a little more than one half hour. Like the preceding symphony, each part is played uninterrupted, without temporal rupture.

Allegro

Poco allegretto
Poco adagio quasi andante

Allegro

External bond

Note in English on work

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