LetterVolume 10 (1928-1929)

1928

1
Date: 1928-01-05
From: Carl Nielsen

10:1

Thursday

5 January 1928

Carl Nielsen to Irmelin and Eggert Møller, New York

5 January 27[!]

Dear Eggert and Irmelin!

I think about you a lot, yes, these last days a lot. Thank you for your letter, Eggert, and for that very delightful little book about Franklin. I've been having the greatest pleasure translating a few pages of it every evening in my bed. Right from the start, his tough spirit gets…

2
Date: 1928-01-06
From: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

10:2

Friday

6 January 1928

Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Copenhagen, to Irmelin Eggert Møller, New York

6 January 1928

Dear sweet little Irme.

Thank you for your lovely little red scarf, which everyone admires. Happy New Year, and all the best to you and Eggert. It is wonderful that you are now coming home. I am very pleased with my statue. In spite of snow and sleet and bad weather, there are always people in the…

3
Date: 1928-01-06
From: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
To: Eggert Møller

10:3

Friday

6 January 1928

Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Copenhagen, to Eggert Møller, New York

6 January 1928

Dear Eggert Møller.

Happy New Year. Thank you for everything in the year that has passed.

We are very much looking forward to your coming home soon. Your mother is in Paris and enjoying herself, she writes. Now she will probably be coming home soon.

Much love…

4
Date: 1928-01-09
From: Johannes Thiele
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

10:4

Monday

9 January 1928

Johannes Thiele to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

Bernstorffsgade 25IV
Copenhagen. V. 9 January 1928

Sculptress Anne Marie Carl Nielsen

May I permit myself to wish my dear lady a happy New Year.

As the leading Danish horse people still appear to have incomprehensible lack of understanding for your wonderful equestrian statue, I will suggest that you send to the…

5
Date: 1928-01-11
From: H.P. Petersen
To: Carl Nielsen

10:5

Wednesday

11 January 1928

H.P. Petersen, Nørre Søby, to Carl Nielsen

Nørre Søby 11 January 1928

Dear Carl Nielsen;

Well, I don't really know what is right or not, but with regard to the statement in this awful stinking anonymous letter, the fact of the matter is that, despite the handwriting not being his, he must still be behind it as there can be no one else here in Nørre Søby who would trot out such, to…

6
Date: 1928-01-11
From: Thorvald Aagaard
To: Carl Nielsen

10:6

Tuesday

11 January 1928

Thorvald Aagaard, Ryslinge, to Carl Nielsen

Ryslinge den 11 January 1927[!].

Dear Carl Nielsen!

First of all, thank you for the delightful bookMfB. that you have written (and sent me!)

It took a while before I could really find time and the peace and quiet to read it. But I have read various bits of it several times,…

7
Date: 1928-01-13
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Harald Balslev

10:7

Friday

13 January 1928

Carl Nielsen to Harald Balslev, Ubberup Folk High School nr. Kalundborg

Copenhagen 13 January 28

Dear Harald Balslev!

I am very ashamed that I am only now sending you a little thought on paper. First a 'Happy New Year' of a good wish! Next, I wish to thank you for the annual. The melodiesHarald Balslev: To Foraarssange til tekst af Johannes Jørgensen [Two Spring…

8
Date: 1928-01-13
From: Irmelin Eggert Møller
To: Carl Nielsen

10:8

Friday

13 January 1928

Irmelin Eggert Møller to Carl Nielsen, Copenhagen

New York 13 January 28

My own dear Father!

It seems to be going fine with 'the book',MfB. I see. I got the Swedish review from Lisa and it's really delightful to see that strangers, too, can derive a lot from it.Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfarts-Tidning 17.12.1927 published…

9
Date: 1928-01-15
Type: Diary

10:9

Sunday

15 January 1928

Diary

Delivered my tax form to the counter at City Hall

10
Date: 1928-01-16
Type: Calendar note

10:10

Monday

16 January 1928

Calendar note

Miss Una Fuller

Alpha Station

Alpha

Queensland

11
Date: 1928-01-17
From: Carl Nielsen

10:11

Tuesday

17 January 1928

Carl Nielsen, Copenhagen, to Irmelin and Eggert Møller, New York

17 January 28

Dear Irmelin and Eggert!

Now – at last – Mother and I are leaving for Lillehammer. Prof. Bang has examined Mother and said it wasn't serious and advised Norway. We will stay there until the middle of February, but if you write then letters will be forwarded immediately. Just think, now we can begin to say…

12
Date: 1928-01-17
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Una Fuller

10:12

Tuesday

17 January 1928

Carl Nielsen to Una Fuller, Australia

[In English:]

Copenhagen 17 January 1928.

Frederiksholms Kanal 28 A

My dear grandniece!

You may be quite sure, that I was very delighted in receiving your letter, what a good idea you have got there! I thank you very much and I am very interested in all that you write about my relatives, the farm…

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Date: 1928-01-17
From: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

10:13

Tuesday

17 January 1928

Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Copenhagen, to Irmelin Eggert Møller, New York

My own dear Irme,

Thank you for your letter which made me very happy. I received it yesterday and then Mrs Møller rang to say that Eggert's appointment had come through. Congratulations! So now it's settled that you'll be coming home soon. That's wonderful. And Eggert will start doing the work that he has so much been wanting. That…

14
Date: 1928-01-18
From: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
To: Hans Rosenkrantz

10:14

Wednesday

18 January 1928

Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen to Hans Rosenkrantz. Copy/draftCarl Nielsen's draft (10:15) must have been the model for this one, which was presumably corrected according to the typewritten letter sent, which is not known. Cf. introduction to volume 9.

Frederiksholms Kanal 28, 18 January 1928.

To the Chairman of the Committee for the Chr. IX Equestrian Statue

15
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Hans Rosenkrantz

10:15

Carl Nielsen to Hans Rosenkrantz. Draft (on behalf of Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen)

Director, Baron Rosenkrantz!

As the accounts to date for the Chr. IX equestrian statue indicate, my loss in regard to this work will be between 56 and 60,000 kroner. In other words, a loss to me of this amount demonstrable from the accounts. The Committee is aware that there would be a large deficit and therefore I have been informed several times both verbally and in writing (on 18 August…

16
Date: 1928-01-23
From: Oluf Ring
To: Carl Nielsen

10:16

Monday

23 January 1928

Oluf Ring to Carl Nielsen

Ribe 23 January 28.

Dear Mr Carl Nielsen!

I am venturing here to send you my three-part school songs and thank you for your contribution to it.Oluf Ring: Skolesange udsatte for 3 lige stemmer, vol. 1-2, Wilhelm Hansen Publishing House, Copenhagen [1927]. Carl Nielsen made a contribution to the first volume with 'Morning dew that…

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Date: 1928-01-25
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

10:17

Wednesday

25 January 1928

Carl Nielsen to Irmelin Eggert Møller, New York

Lillehammer 25 January 28

Dear Irmelin!

Well, now I've gone to bed after a lovely day of sunshine and skiing, so you will have to make do with pencil. Mother and I have been here for four days; we are staying at a tourist hotel a little outside the town high on a hill among fir trees. It suits us both excellently. Mother thinks that…

18
Date: 1928-01-25
From: Carl Nielsen

10:18

Wednesday

25 January 1928

Carl Nielsen to Vera and Carl Johan Michaelsen, Copenhagen

Tourist Hotel, Lillehammer
25 January 28

Dear Vera and Carl Johan!

The sun is shining now and it's really lovely here. I wish you were both here. Thank you for coming so I could see you on the quay (Nordre Toldbod).

I'm skiing without any problems. The air is light and pure. Come up here!!

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Date: 1928-01-26
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Anne Marie Telmányi

10:19

Thursday

26 January 1928

Carl Nielsen to Anne Marie Telmányi, Copenhagen

Hotel des Pays-Bas
Amsterdam
Télégrammes Paysbas Hotel AmsterdamLetter paper with the name of the hotel printed at the top.

Lillehammer 26 January 28

Dear Søs!

Forgive me for writing to you, but – weeell, to tell the honest truth it is because – weeell – I found this sheet of…

20
Date: 1928-01-27
From: Anker Olesen
To: Carl Nielsen

10:20

Friday

27 January 1928

Anker Olesen, Copenhagen, to Carl Nielsen, Copenhagen

At a Danish church music evening at Elijah's Church on 17 February 1928, the programme concluded with three two-part hymns by Carl Nielsen: 'God's angels, unite',[CNW 170] 'Ah, my rose will fade away'[CNW 153] and 'Lift up your eyes, all Christian men'.[CNW 182] According to the programme, they were performed for the first time and from manuscript (Comp. CNU (which is not…

21
Date: 1928-01-27
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

10:21

Friday

27 January 1928

Prince Harald to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

Currently Hotel Schönblick
Partenkirchen, Upper Bavaria
27 January 1928.

Sculptress Carl-Nielsen

Herewith my thanks for the picture sent to me of your statue of our grandfather.

Kind regards.

Prince Harald

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Date: 1928-01-29
From: Ejnar Skovrup
To: Carl Nielsen

10:22

Sunday

29 January 1928

Ejnar Skovrup to Carl Nielsen

Tidsskrift for dansk Folkeoplysning
Ollerup, 29 January 1928.

Composer Carl Nielsen.

Thank you for the concert two years ago [9:9] [9:20].Cf.  introduction to volume 9. We met when you were conducting at Ryslinge Folk High School and I had the honour of being with you at Alfred Povlsen's and hearing your…

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Date: 1928-01-30
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

10:23

Monday

30 January 1928

Princess Thyra of Cumberland to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

It has been a particular pleasure for me to receive your kind letter with the beautiful photograph of your original model for the magnificent equestrian statue of my beloved Father, King Christian IX. It will forever be a cherished memory of mine to have had the joy of witnessing the unveiling of the monument,  which brought back so many precious moments and reconnected…

24
Date: 1928-01-31
From: Bror Beckman
To: Carl Nielsen

10:24

Tuesday

31 January 1928

Bror Beckman to Carl Nielsen, Copenhagen

[In Swedish:]

Stockholm 31 January 1928.

My dear Carl.

It's quite a long time now since we heard from each other. I had a particular reason for writing today as I had been told that the enclosed review of your bookMfB. was in Dagens Nyheter last Saturday.

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Date: 1928-01-31
From: Simon Paulli
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

10:25

Tuesday

31 January 1928

Simon Paulli to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

Royal Veterinary and Agricultural School's Normal Anatomy
Copenhagen V. 31 January 1928.

Dear Mrs Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

Due to failing health, a prolonged cold etc. I have not had the opportunity to admire your equestrian statue until a couple of days ago.
I venture, with all respect, to send you my warmest congratulations and my…