Carl Nielsen
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Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Nielsen, c. 1908
Nielsen's childhood home at Sortelung near Nørre Lyndelse
Nielsen, aged about 14, in Odense, 1879
Nielsen and his family at Fuglsang Manor, c. 1915
Symphony No. 5 (Nielsen)
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Symphony No. 5, Op. 50, FS 97 is a symphony composed by Carl Nielsen in Denmark between 1920 and 1922. It was first performed in Copenhagen on 24 January 1922 with the composer conducting. It is one o
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…in Gothenburg. The period was one of creative crisis for Nielsen which, coinciding with World War I, would strongly influence his Fourth (1914–16) and Fifth symphonies (1921–22), arguably his greatest works according to Fanning. The composer was particularly upset in the 1920s when his long-standing Danish publisher…
The composer in 1917