Shakespeare, CNW 15 (Nielsen, Carl)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	5 movements
Composition Year	1916
Genre Categories	Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For 3 voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; Danish language; For horn, trumpet, euphonium (arr); Scores featuring the horn (arr); Scores featuring the trumpet (arr); Scores featuring the euphonium (arr); For 3 players (arr)
Related Works	Grosserer-Societetets Centenary Cantata, Op.31 Pieces for 'Melodier til Sangbogen Danmark', FS 111

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Complete Score
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Editor	Kirsten Flensborg Petersen
Publisher. Info.	Vaerker, Series I, No.6 Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2007. Made available by courtesy of DCM.
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Complete Score
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Horn (F)
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Trumpet (B♭)
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Euphonium
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Arranger	Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt (b. 1944)
Publisher. Info.	Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt, 2018.
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Work Title	Shakespeare
Alternative. Title	Music for Helge Rode's Prologue
Composer	Nielsen, Carl
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	CNW 15
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ICN 170
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	5 movements: 1. Tempo giusto (F major) 2. Andante quassi allegretto (A minor) 3. Andante (E♭ minor) 4. Ariel's song. Andantino quassi allegretto (E minor) 5. Moderato (F major)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1916
First Performance.	1916/06/24, in Helsingør (Elsinore), Kronborg Slot Carl Nielsen (conductor)
Librettist	Helge Rode (1870–1937)
Language	Danish
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	soprano, tenor, bass; mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
InstrDetail	2 flutes (2nd also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, strings
Related Works	Grosserer-Societetets Centenary Cantata, Op.31 Pieces for 'Melodier til Sangbogen Danmark', FS 111
External Links	Nielsen catalogue
Extra Information	Nielsen composed music for the play Shakespeare in 1916. The following year, he re-used the melody for the fifth and last song in his Kantate ved Grosserer-Societetets Hundredaarsfest (CNW 111).