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In the News (Wed 25 Nov 09)

  
  John Fellow
At udforske og erkende det fulde omfang og betydningen af skribenten og ordmageren Carl Nielsen er derimod forbeholdt vor tid.
Grundstammen er de knap 3500 bevarede breve fra Carl Nielsen til lav og høj i det danske samfund, i Skandinavien og det øvrige Europa.
Der Wert der Carl Nielsen Briefausgabe begrenzt sich nicht auf die erstmalige Möglichkeit einer qualifizierten Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk und Leben Carl Nielsens auf Grundlage des existierenden Quellenmaterials, sondern ist auch ein in weiterem Sinne unumgängliches Quellenmaterial einer wichtigen und neueren Periode der dänischen (Kultur)Geschichte.
fellow.dk /carl.htm   (828 words)

  
 Nielsen, Carl Leopold | Galvest Fine Arts
Painting primarily in his native Denmark, Carl Leopold Nielsen is known for his exquisite portraits and landscapes.
Nielsen's captivating and lively style attracted well-known Danish actors and writers, who frequently requested that the artist paint their portraits.
Nielsen's exhibitions include Charlottenborg from 1925-1959; the Art Union from 1927-1952; and the Frederiksberg Garden in 1940.
www.galvest-fine-arts.com /carl-leopold-nielsen.htm   (152 words)

  
  Carl Nielsen: Biography - Classic Cat
Nielsen was born one of twelve children in a poor peasant family in Sortelung, not far from the city of Odense.
Nielsen's early Symphony No. 1 in G minor already shows his individuality and hints at what Robert Simpson calls "progressive tonality", by which he refers to Nielsen's habit of beginning a work in one key and ending in another.
Carl Nielsen, Danish Composer (1865-1931) by Knud Ketting.
www.classiccat.net /nielsen_c/biography.htm   (1259 words)

  
  Carl Nielsen - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nielsen was a pupil of Niels Gade at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen.
Nielsen also composed one concerto apiece for flute, clarinet, and violin; two operas; a woodwind quintet; four string quartets; songs; incidental music; and many other chamber, choral, and piano pieces.
Music is life and like it inextinguishable; The music of Carl Nielsen is the main focus of the Discover Denmark festival which is launched at Symphony Hall tonight.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Nielsen.html   (428 words)

  
  Carl Nielsen
Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 - October 3, 1931) was a Danish composer.
Nielsen was born in Sortelung, not far from the city of Odense.
His family was relatively poor, but he was still able to learn the violin and piano as a child.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Carl_Nielsen.html   (260 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen Summary
Carl Nielsen was born on June 9, 1865, in Nørre-Lyndelse on the island of Fünen, the seventh of 12 children of Niels Jørgensen, a poor house painter and country fiddler.
Nielsen was born in Sortelung, not far from the city of Odense.
Carl Nielsen, Danish Composer (1865-1931) by Knud Ketting.
www.bookrags.com /Carl_Nielsen   (1572 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen Museet - Odense Bys Museer
I udstillingen kan du følge fortællingen om Carl Nielsens liv, fra hans fynske barndom til livet som den største danske komponist nogensinde. 
Der er fri adgang til udstillingen og museets åbningstid er i høj grad tilpasset Odense Symfoniorkesters koncerter i Carl Nielsen Salen i Odense Koncerthus.
Carl Nielsen Museet handler også om Carl Nielsens hustru Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, der foruden sin naturlige placering som hovedperson i Carl Nielsens liv, tillige indgår i museet som selvstændig kunstner med et stort antal vigtige og markante billedhuggerarbejder.
www.museum.odense.dk /Carl_Nielsen/Carl_Nielsen_Museet.aspx   (456 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Carl Nielsen is perhaps Denmark’s most notable Twentieth Century musical figure, (after Victor Borge, of course.) Although revered in his native land, it wasn’t until the 1960s when his works were championed and recorded by the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Eugene Ormandy that Nielsen’s music gained the international recognition that it holds today.
Carl was one of many children born to a poor housepainter on the Isle of Fyen.
Nielsen was inspired to compose a wind quintet, after hearing a performance by the Copenhagen Wind Quintet at a friend’s house in the autumn of 1921.
www.fuguemasters.com /nielsen.html   (736 words)

  
 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
The principal post-Romantic Danish composer, Carl Nielsen, was born in 1865, the son of a painter and village musician.
Nielsen wrote six symphonies, distinguished by the titles given them as well as in numbering.
Nielsen's 1922 Wind Quintet is a particularly pleasing element in wind chamber music repertoire, of greater interest than the composer's earlier string quartets.
www.karadar.it /Dictionary/nielsen.html   (165 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Carl Nielsen er uomtvisteligt den mest berømte danske komponist og en nøgleperson til forståelsen af hele det 20.
Med sine seks symfonier, koncerter for violin, klarinet og fløjte, kammermusik, to markante operaer, teatermusik og i allerhøjeste grad de hundredevis af sange, har Carl Nielsen som ingen anden sat et mærke på dansk musikhistorie, præget af intensitet, poesi og originalitet.
I 1890 modtog Carl Nielsen et rejselegat, der blandt andet bragte ham til Paris, hvor han mødte den danske billedhugger Anne Marie Brodersen, som han giftede sig med i sommeren 1891 og med hvem han fik flere børn.
www.detmodernegennembrud.dk /composite-803.htm   (347 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen (I)
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 Nielsen Symphonies 1 & 6
This is the first in a Nielsen series, all featuring Osma Vanska and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
In his revelatory and award-winning recordings of Sibelius, Vanska has established himself the world over as a conductor who serves the score.
This faithfulness will now be brought to the unique sound world of Carl Nielsen.
www.finnishgifts.com /nielsen-symphonies.html   (166 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen 's Music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer who wrote much during the early part of the twentieth century.
In contrast to traditional home-key concepts, the final key of a Nielsen piece was often arrived at by way of a great struggle, which in the end revealed its own logic.
Nielsen had a unique melodic voice that had some of its basis in Scandinavian folk music.
www.rayashley.com /superlink/nielsen.htm   (317 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen Society -- The Society
We are also happy to try to supply you with specific Nielsen information not found on the website.
If you know of forthcoming Nielsen performances and/or recent Nielsen cds not found in the relevant pages of this website, you may help us by supplying the information here, concerning concerts, and here, regarding cds.
Conductor Herbert Blomstedt (left) and Per Erik Veng, director of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, with the little bronze sculpture by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, which is part of the honorary prize of the Carl Nielsen Society.
carlnielsen.dk /pages/the-society.php   (338 words)

  
 Music History For Violin Students February 28, Carl Nielsen
At age 14 Carl auditioned, and was given the position of bugler in a military band in Odense.
In 1901 Carl Nielsen was awarded an annual state grant, and at the beginning of 1903 he signed a contract with the music publishers Wilhelm Hansen in Copenhagen, which allowed him to take a leave of absence from his work at the Royal Theatre and travel to Greece for further study.
Nielsen suffered a serious heart attack in 1925, and his activity from that point on was severely curtailed.
www.violinstudent.com /history/february/february28   (735 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen:Lawson, Jack:0714835072:eCampus.com
The Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), together with Jean Sibelius from Finland, is a towering figure of twentieth-century Scandinavian music.
Nielsen's revitalization of the Danish folk song, setting old Nordic texts to music of a Fresh and direct utterance, was no less of an achievement than his symphonies.
In this, the first biography on Nielsen to be published in English, the author reveals much that is new and unpublished about Nielsen's life and times.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0714835072&referrer=CJ   (303 words)

  
 Turist København- Officiel turist-site om KøbenhavnTurist København- Officiel turist-site om KøbenhavnOm ...
Carl Nielsen blev født i Nørre Lyndelse, og ligesom H.C. Andersen forlod han i en tidlig alder sit hjem for at drage til hovedstaden.
Som barn viste Carl Nielsen sit talent ved at skrive sin første komposition, da han var blot otte år.
Carl Nielsen, der blandt andet var inspireret af Mozart og Sibelius, skrev symfonier, folkelige sange, kammermusik, operaer og kormusik i løbet af sit liv.
www.visitcopenhagen.dk /turist/om_koebenhavn/historie/kendte_danskere_-_foer/carl_nielsen   (134 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen plays Carl Nielsen
No, but one night, about 1920, he paid a visit to old friends and sat down at the piano - as many times before - but on this occasion a phonograph was spinning, and a cylinder was cut.
The quality of the sound recording leaves much to be desired, but a phonograph in a private home at that time was a toy which was used for fun.
We have added some early gramophone recordings, where other artists play Carl Nielsen, and Telmanyi plays the same music by Bach as then.
www.statsbiblioteket.dk /english/carl.jsp   (159 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5: Music: Carl Nielsen,Adrian Leaper,National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Various imprecisions in the playing, coupled with slack conducting, make this pairing of Nielsen's 4th and 5th symphonies simply non-competitive.
Nielsen's immortal Symphony No. 4 was written during The First World War years (1916).
Also, about Symphony 4, according to Nielsen, "Music is life" and music, like life, "Inextinguishable".
www.amazon.ca /Symphonies-Nos-4-Carl-Nielsen/dp/B0000013XJ   (601 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Nielsen: Symphonies (Complete): Music: Carl Nielsen,Theodore Kuchar,Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This 3-CD set containing all six symphonies by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, undoubtedly one of the greatest symphonists of the twentieth century, is a worthy investment for those on a budget.
It is nice to be reminded how muscular, alive, and vital Nielsen's scoring is. No string group seems lacking, from the low string bases, to the cellos, to the violas, to the second or first violins.
In his own way, Carl Nielsen seems quite aware that, Not to decide is to decide.
www.amazon.com /Nielsen-Symphonies-Complete-Carl/dp/B000EDWM2M   (1731 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Author: Simpson, Robert Wilfred Levick, 1921- Title: Carl Nielsen, symphonist, 1865-1931 / by Robert Simpson ; with an introd.
Danse lente / Joseph Jongen (3:28) -- Sonate pour flcute and harpe / Jean-Michel Damase (18:30) -- Morceau de concours / Gabriel Faurbe (2:10) -- The fog is lifting / Carl Nielsen (1:44) -- Le petit chevrier corse / Henri Tomasi (2:44) -- Naiades : fantasy-sonata for flute and harp / William Alwyn (12:22).
1881) / Carl Nielsen ; udgivet af Torben Schousboe.
www.mala.bc.ca /~MCNEIL/cit/citlcnielsen.htm   (1755 words)

  
 Fyn.dk:  - Arkiv - visitfyn.com - GB - Carl Nielsen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Carl Nielsen (1865 - 1931) - the most famous Danish composer - was born to poor parents in the countryside in a small and defeated nation.
Although his upbringing was modest, he later wrote music on a large scale: operas, symphonies and other orchestral works.
For more information about Carl Nielsen, visit www.carlnielsen.dk.
www.fyn.dk /modules/fsArticle/index.php?articleid=14045   (162 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen: Symphonies Nielsen/Rozhdestvensky/Royal Stockholm Po / CD
True, Carl Nielsen is one of the great symphonists of the first decades of the twentieth century.
It is true that with Rozhdestvensky and the Stockholm, Nielsen sounds less Danish modern than European modernist.
Their vision of Nielsen is larger than Denmark, larger even than Scandinavia.
www.gogamer.com /Carl-Nielsen--Symphonies-Front-Page_stcVVproductId3056010VVcatId444710VVviewprod.htm   (322 words)

  
 THE NEW CARL NIELSEN EDITION ON CLASSICO RECORDS
The seating of the strings, for example, is as Nielsen himself expected and would have been used to.
The consultant for the Classico Nielsen series is Knud Ketting, the foremost Danish authority on Carl Nielsen.
The RLPO has a a long tradition of Nielsen performances, whilst Douglas Bostock represents a new generation of Nielsen conductors.
www.dimusic.co.uk /nielsen.html   (657 words)

  
 Amazon.co.jp: Carl Nielsen (20th-Century Composers): 洋書: Jack Lawson
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is one of those composers who tend to be a late discovery on the part of lovers of classical music.
Nielsen is Denmark's one great claim to compositional fame, and in this new biography Jack Lawson traces his rise from impoverished farm boy to a dominant musical figure in the life of his country, and of Europe, not to mention to the position of one of the greatest symphony writers of all time.
This is one of Phaidon's 20th-Century Composers series, and as such strives to make its subject as accessible as possible to the music lover who is not necessarily a music expert.
www.amazon.co.jp /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714835072/geometrynet-22/ref=nosim   (222 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Nielsen - Complete Symphonies: Music: Carl Nielsen,Ole Schmidt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But in the later symphonies this set really hits its stride culminating with a convincingly argued Fifth and a Sixth with near perfect balance and grace.
Anyone who likes late nineteenth century symphonies, especially those of Dvorak will find this to be a rewarding introduction to the early twentieth century symphony, in fact Nielsen's First could almost be a Dvorak Tenth.
Regis wipe the floor with all the competition,most of which are at least twice this price.
www.amazon.co.uk /Nielsen-Complete-Symphonies-Carl/dp/B00005V43B   (553 words)

  
 Carl Nielsen Museet - Find det på KultuNaut
Carl Nielsen Museet, Claus Bergs Gade 11, Odense C
Som optakt til den travle decembertid er der julehygge i Carl Nielsens Barndomshjem.
Hør om, hvordan man fejrede jul på Carl Nielsens tid og vær med til at synge julen ind. Ind imellem hygger vi med glögg og hjemmebag.
www.kultunaut.dk /perl/sted/type-nynaut/ses-RO1diX8AAAEAABcpK9o/nr-100445   (179 words)

  
 TCS Daily - The Most Important Nielsen Rating
Or take a copy of a Nielsen symphony to work, and take a Nielsen break where everyone gathers around to listen to this humane, exhilarating, and ennobling music.
This great symphony was written in the years between 1914 and 1916, and it is Nielsen's response to the horror of the Great War into which European civilization had been plunged.
Let all the world know that Carl Nielsen was right -- the human spirit cannot and will not be extinguished, neither by the ghastliness of war, nor by acts of terrorism, nor by threats of Jihad.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=021706A   (893 words)

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