Rued Langgård: Carl Nielsen, vor store komponist!

[mikkeljs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhR-iLqzgo8&feature=related

this is so crazy! and fantastic!

description: Carl Nielsen, vor store Komponist! is one of the isolated composer's most desperate - and sarcastic - utterances. In a foreword to the piece Langgaard complains at having had to live and breathe in a musical Danemark "infested" by Carl Nielsen. Langgaard was highly critical of Nielsen, and his music, even through the latter wad one inspiration around 1920. He submittend his ironical tribute to Nielsen, which is "dedicated to Musical life in Danemark 1891-1948" to Danish National Radio incomplete (only the seven opening bars are fully scored) accompanied by the acrid comment that the orchestration could surely be completed by Emil Reesen. Reesen was one of the people who had assisted Carl Nielsen in the orchestration of occasional music. The work comprirses thirty-two bars, and after the last bar Langgaard dictates that the work is to be "repeated to eternity!"
(by B. Viinholt Nielsen, © 2000)

[vandermolen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhR-iLqzgo8&feature=related

this is so crazy! and fantastic!

description: Carl Nielsen, vor store Komponist! is one of the isolated composer's most desperate - and sarcastic - utterances. In a foreword to the piece Langgaard complains at having had to live and breathe in a musical Danemark "infested" by Carl Nielsen. Langgaard was highly critical of Nielsen, and his music, even through the latter wad one inspiration around 1920. He submittend his ironical tribute to Nielsen, which is "dedicated to Musical life in Danemark 1891-1948" to Danish National Radio incomplete (only the seven opening bars are fully scored) accompanied by the acrid comment that the orchestration could surely be completed by Emil Reesen. Reesen was one of the people who had assisted Carl Nielsen in the orchestration of occasional music. The work comprirses thirty-two bars, and after the last bar Langgaard dictates that the work is to be "repeated to eternity!"
(by B. Viinholt Nielsen, © 2000)

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