Snefrid, CNW 4 (Nielsen, Carl)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts
Composition Year 1893 (Version 1)
1899 (Version 2)
Genre Categories Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra; Danish language; For narrator, 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (arr); Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring a narrator; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; Scores featuring the piano; For voices with solo instruments; For piano (arr); For 1 player

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Scores

 Complete Score
#429110 - 15.06MB, 58 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 79×⇩ - IS

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 Preface and Critical Commentary
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Editor Niels Bo Foltmann
Publisher. Info. Vaerker, Series I, No.6
Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2007.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Complete

For Narrator, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano (Nielsen)

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 Preface and Critical Commentary
#430872 - 0.41MB, 20 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 12×⇩ - IS

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Arranger composer
Editor Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen
Lisbeth Larsen
Publisher. Info. Vaerker, Series IV, No.1
Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2009.
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Selections

For Piano (Nielsen)

 Prelude
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 Preface and Critical Commentary
#430869 - 0.35MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 12×⇩ - IS

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Arranger composer
Editor Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen
Lisbeth Larsen
Publisher. Info. Vaerker, Series IV, No.1
Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2009.
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General Information

Work Title Snefrid
Alternative. Title Music for Holger Drachmann's Melodrama
Composer Nielsen, Carl
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. CNW 4
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ICN 173
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts
Act I
1. Prelude. Tempo giusto (C-sharp minor)
2. Poco allegretto (E major)
3. Poco moderato (C major)
4. Andante quassi sostenuto (A major)
5. Allegro marziale (A minor)
6. Sceene change. Allegro misterioso (quassi andante) (A minor)
7. Allegro (C major)
8. Allegro marziale (A minor)
9. Andantino pastorale (C major)
10. Allegro (A minor)
11. Moderato (A major)
12. Poslude. Allegro non troppo (E major)
Act II
13. Prelude. Moderato e maestoso (C-sharp minor)
14. Andantino (F major)
15. Moderato (C minor)
16. Moderato e maestoso (A minor)
17. Funeral music. Andante sostenuto (C minor)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1893 (Version 1)
1899 (Version 2)
First Performance. see below
1894-04-10 in Koncertpalæet, Copenhagen (Version 1)
Carl Nielsen (conductor), Music Only
1899-11-01 in Dagmarteatret, Copenhagen (Version 2)
First Theatrical Performance
Librettist Holger Drachmann (1846-1908)
Language Danish
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation voices, orchestra
Cast
Kong Harald Haarfager
Gunnar
Kongens Skjald
Svase, en Finne-Høvding
Snefrid, hans Datter
Thorleif Spake, Kongens gode Mand
En Finne-Kone
Orchestra
2 flutes (2nd also piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets (B♭/A), bassoon
2 horns (E, F, E♭), 2 trumpets (E, F, C), 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, strings
External Links Nielsen catalogue

Misc. Comments

  • In the beginning of 1893, Carl Nielsen was requested to compose music to Holger Drachmann's play Snefrid in connection with a planned performance at Det frie Theater. In less than a month the score was finished. The plans for a production at the theatre came to nothing, however, and the music was not performed until the following year. The music was later revised and arranged by Nielsen himself. Music from no. 4 was re-used in Hr. Oluf han rider– CNW 7 (1906) and Amor og Digteren CNW 23 (1929).
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