4:1

Dear, old friend

Best wishes and Happy New Year!

Yours,

C.N.

4:2

Bryndum School 1 January 11

Dear Carl

I got your letter yesterday for which I thank you and want to wish you all a Happy New Year. Thank you for the Christmas present. It was not Peter who had sent the letter; it was his daughter, and it was in English, and then we sent it to Anders so I do not have Peter's address, but I will give you Julie's…

4:3

The Royal Theatre

5 January 10

My own dear Søs!

I feel so down-hearted because I haven't written to you for a long time. Maybe I should have just sent you a word or two once in a while, but I'm sure you know that I'm always thinking fond and loving thoughts about you even though you don't hear from…

4:4

On 2 January 1911, Hugo Seligmann wrote a review in Politiken of 8 Songs to Poems by Aakjær, Kai Hoffmann and Pierre Ronsard (8 Sange til Digte af Aakjær, Kai Hoffmann og Pierre Ronsard.) by Ove Scavenius, a student of Carl Nielsen's saying, among other things: 'Their settings are as familiar and simple as it is possible to be. In their entirely plain…

4:5

[In Swedish:]

Stockholm 22 January 11.

Dear friend!

Just a few words to ask you about something.

There are discussions as to whether I as the representative of the academy should travel to the major music congress in Rome in April. Since there will be great art exhibitions etc. at the same time,…

4:6

Copenhagen 25 January 11.

Dear friend!

My wife is just leaving for London for a few days, but I was to tell you that she wants to go to Rome sometime in the spring as she has several works down there for a large art exhibition.Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen on 20 January 1911 to Anne Marie Nielsen in London: 'There…

4:7

Wilhelm Stenhammar appeared as soloist and conductor for his Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 23, at The Music Society's concerts on 24 and 26 January 1911. The other main work at these concerts was Brahms' A German Requiem. On these occasions, Carl Nielsen was conducting at The Royal Theatre in performances of Masquerade [CNW 2] and Édouard du Puy's Youth and Folly…

4:8

Sunday, 2 o'clock.

Address Pall Mall East 13-14

My dear love. Now we are sailing out on the North Sea. The last time we made this crossing together it did us the honour of turning us and our stomachs inside out [3:916]. Today it lies glittering and calm with a light mist on its surface, all silvery. We have just passed a…

4:9

Vodroffsvej 53

2 February 11

Dear friend!

The day before yesterday, I received a letter from Mr Th. Frederiksen saying that you had been so good to him and that you would personally speak with the head of the diocesan council and the dean about him. I am so pleased about this…

4:10

At 11 o'clock, Levysohn declared that he could conduct The Kermesse tomorrow. Told Mantzius this and he agreed to it after first having asked why Grandjean couldn't.

The Kermesse in Bruges (Kermessen i Brügge). or The Three Gifts (De tre Gaver). is a ballet by August Bournonville with music by H.S. Paulli, which had its premiere on 4 April 1851 and was restaged with…

4:11

Heard that Rung had turned down Levysohn and that Holm was now to conduct The Kermesse.

Maren Hansen to Anne Marie Nielsen in London on 8 February 1911: 'Do not think we are living extravagantly these days; we are mainly eating porridge. The letter has been resting for a day or so and has not been sent. Tonight the Kapellmeister and his Miss Daughter are at a concert, so…

4:12

Spoke to Mantzius and asked for negotiation between him and the director [A.P. Weis] regarding Rung's interference in my business. Spoke with the director, who agreed with me.

Had a dreadful cold in the evening for Hoffmann.Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, which was performed 36 times in Julius Lehmann's staging and Carl Nielsen's musical…

4:13

Carl Nielsen's oldest brother, Jørgen Peter Nielsen, emigrated to Queensland, Australia, in May 1878. His departure from home is depicted in MfB, pp. 91-92.

Eton February 9^th 1911

[in English:]

Dear Uncle Carl

No doubt you will wonder…

4:14

Off sick until Sunday due to my cold and temperature.

Wrote to Klaus Berntsen re military music and disapproved of his proposal.

Wrote to William Behrend.

With the Organisation of the Army Act of 30 September 1909, the disbanding of Danish military music had begun in earnest. The law had postponed the reduction until April 1911, and it was Klaus…

4:15

In his overview article 'Opera and Concert' ('Opera og Koncert'). Tilskueren 1911, pp. 201-205, William Behrend proposes reinvigorating stagnated Copenhagen music life by expanding the repertoire back in time with works from periods before the Classical-Romantic standard repertoire as had been done in France and Germany. That kind of renewal 'does not require a…

4:16

 10 February 11

Dear Bodil!

May I wish you many happy returns on your birthday! I hear from Nina Grieg that you are now going to be staying here for a while. That is good! Then we will have to meet up.

I am ill in bed; otherwise I would write more with better handwriting.

Very…

4:17

The Minister for Defence

Copenhagen, 10 February 11.

Dear Carl Nielsen.

No, please do not write against the military music.I.e. against the bill laying down the number of military musicians, cf. 4:14. It would make me miserable if you do so. I have not mentioned your name in connection with…

4:18

Letter from Kl. B. asking me not to work against his proposal, as nothing more than that can be achieved and possibly not even that.

4:19

11 February 11

Dear friend! I asked Sofie Olrik to lend me your dissertation on Goethe.Julius Lehmann became a MA in German in 1885 and wrote a dissertation on Goethe entitled: Hvilket Kendskab har Goethe haft til den ældre tyske Litteratur (indtil 1600), og hvilke Spor har det sat sig i hans Skrifter [What knowledge did…

4:20

12 December 11.

Dear Julius Lehmann! I have now read you dissertation on Goethe.

I must thank you for what I have learnt from it. I have read Herman Grimm's, Lewes' and P. Hansen's 'Goethes',Herman Grimm: Goethe: Vorlesungen, Berlin 1877. Georg Henry Lewes: The Life and Works of Goethe, London 1855.…

4:21

Amicisvej 2 12 February 11

Dear Carl Nielsen!

Thank you for your letter, which I was very happy about, and which arrived at the most appropriate time imaginable. I am your companion in misfortune, you see, am also currently ill, and then it is indeed encouraging to unexpectedly receive a letter such as yours. – I hope you are…

4:22

Dear Carl. Tomorrow I will be in Kolding. On the way home tomorrow evening in Copenhagen, I will stop in and see how Aunt Maren is doing.On the same day she writes to their daughter Anne Marie in London: 'Tonight I am travelling to Kolding and tomorrow home.'

Influenza has broken out here, and all the stallions…

4:23

Wrote to the Theatre management in response to Weis' question about authority at a face-to-face meeting on the 13th this month. 

4:24

16 February 11.

Dear friend!

Could I venture to remind you, when you make a plan today for the repertoire next week, to put Masquerade [CNW 2] on some 'amenable little' day? It is already such a long time now since it was performed, and you have promised not to make life difficult for my work.Masquerade…

4:25

At your request, I will venture to draw your attention to the fact that I regard my position as Second Kapellmeister at The Royal Theatre as follows: that in the rehearsal and direction of those works that the management entrusts to me, I am in possession of the self-same authority as the First Kapellmeister and that he has neither the right nor the duty to…