Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 3 movements |
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Composition Year | 1930 |
Genre Categories | Songs; For narrator, male chorus, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trombone; Scores featuring the voice; |
Work Title | Poetry in Song and Music for the Inauguration of the Public Swimming Baths |
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Alternative. Title | Digtning i Sang og Toner ved Svømmehallens Indvielse |
Composer | Nielsen, Carl |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | CNW 115 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | ICN 54 |
Key | G major |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 3 movements
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Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1930 |
First Performance. | 1930-11-1 in Copenhagen, Københavns Idrætspark, Svømmehallen.
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Librettist | Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen (1892-1986) |
Language | Danish |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Early 20th century |
Instrumentation | Voices: reciter, mens chorus (TTBB) Orchestra: 2 clarinets (A), 2 bassoons, 2 horns (F), trombone |
External Links | Nielsen catalogue |
The work was composed for the opening of the public swimming baths in Copenhagen's sports park on 1 November 1930. Nielsen re-used the melody to N.F.S. Grundtvig's Morgenhanen atter gol, which he had already composed in 1926. It is unclear whether it was Nielsen himself who arranged the four-part version of the melody.