Pastor Valdemar Nielsen, 1886-1972

Valdemar II, Matthew Paris and the rumours of a Danish invasion, 1240–41In 1240, the English chronicler Matthew Paris recorded rumours in England that suggested the Danes were prep...

Grundtvig and the Danish Metrical Chronicle. By Helge Toldberg. A characteristic feature of present-day Grundtvig research in Denmark is a number of attempts at ascertaining import...

On the basis of songs or songlike themes from three periods of Nielsen’s career I try to show how Nielsen’s harmonic progressions become simpler while displaying a more refined com...

The basis for the article is a complete overview covering every performance of music by Carl Nielsen in the summer season of the Copenhagen pleasure garden, Tivoli, during the comp...

In summer 1931 a correspondence between Carl Nielsen and the German author Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) started. Jahnn was organ builder and publisher of music in unison. He knew t...

On 1 April 1925 Denmark introduced national control of its hitherto privately run and relatively chaotic radio broadcasting. Denmark would quickly show itself to be one of Europe’s...

In previous studies of Carl Nielsen’s opera Saul og David , Einar Christiansen’s libretto as been compared to the biblical story, and the similarities and differences duly noted. R...

Beginning with an account of the context in which the Carl Nielsen Brevudgaven (translated: The Carl Nielsen Letter Edition) began, this paper describes the source material for the...