Min Sjæl er mørk, CNW 279 (Nielsen, Carl)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	Allegro agitato
Composition Year	1886-88
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; Danish language

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Editor	Niels Bo Foltmann Peter Haugen Elly Bruunshuus Petersen Kirsten Flensborg Petersen
Publisher. Info.	Vaerker, Series III, No.5 Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2009. Made available by courtesy of DCM.
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 [tag/del]
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Work Title	Min Sjæl er mørk, CNW 279
Alternative. Title	My soul is dark
Composer	Nielsen, Carl
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	CNW 279
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	ICN 127
Key	A minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	Allegro agitato
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1886-88
Librettist	Caralis (Caspara Preetzman, 1792-1876) after George Gordon Byron (1788⋅1824)
Language	Danish
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, piano
External Links	Nielsen catalogue

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During his student years, Nielsen composed songs to texts by English poets in a Danish translation by Christian Preetzmann. It is probable that his music theory teacher Orla Rosenhoff was the instigator.