5:1

Copenhagen 2 January 14

Dear Morales!

Happy New Year and heartfelt thanks for last time!

As soon as I get a little time, I will write to you properly as I have much to tell you. Regards to your wife and say I am looking forward to getting to know her also as an artist one day.

Come and see me sometime…

5:2

4 January 1914

Dear friends!

Happy New Year!

Yes, it is a great scandal that we have not yet been to see you. And we talk about it so often! It is really appalling – so often – the way life keeps slipping away beneath your feet.

Do not think that my feelings for you…

5:3

Fr. Rung

Fredericiagade 16

Telephone Palæ 1515

Sunday evening 4 January 14.

Dear Carl Nielsen!

I hereby merely wish to inform you that I do not intend to take on the coming performances of The King Has SpokenLéo Delibes' song piece premiered…

5:4

10 January 14

My own love!

It's good that you got there in time for your horse. It would have been terrible if something had happened.

You have probably been waiting for a letter, but I have literally not had time or energy to sit down and write to you. Since you left, I have had The King Has Spoken…

5:5

10 January 1914

Dear Carl. Today has been a Tycho Brahe DayScandinavian expression used to describe days that are particularly unlucky. for me. This morning my little siskin sang so shrilly, then the door opened for a moment and, whoosh, he was out; he flew out onto the heath where he came from. Fortunately…

5:6

Monday 12 January 14.

Dear Carl Nielsen!

I do not like it when the Second Kapellmeister tries to act as First Kapellmeister. You have done that with the horns in La SylphideAugust Bournonville: Sylphiden, romantic ballet in 2 acts with music by Herman Løvenskiold. [4…

5:7

My own love!

All well! Rung has committed yet another blunder towards me in a letter I got from him today. It concerns a hornist in the orchestra whom I had replaced in a certain solo, which he played so out of tune in three performances that…

5:8

Copenhagen 13 January 1914.

Dear little Mother!

Thank you for your card. Irmelin left this Sunday, and Maren and I and Søs went with her to the station to send her off, and I think she seemed excited about going back. She had her blue feather in her little round hat, which was very decorative.

Now we are the…

5:9

Carl Nielsen conducted The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra's subscription concert on 6 February 1914. The programme consisted of Sinfonia Espansiva [CNW 27], the Violin Concerto [CNW 41] with Peder Møller as soloist, Saga Dream [CNW 35] and the overture to Masquerade [CNW 2]. The Royal Theatre only gave Carl Nielsen permission to be away for a few days so…

5:10

15 January 14

Dear friend!

You should have received a telegram today. Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to come on the 23rd. It is dreadful! But four operas are playing here from 20 to 24th that only I can conduct.

This calamity is because we have no plays and the actors are ill. –

5:11

17 January 14
Copenhagen

My own dear love!

That was lovely, what you wrote to H.B. about Carl Jacobsen, and that is exactly what needs saying about the man. He was no intellect of any significance and his taste was not good, but his underlying sense in relation to art was nevertheless broad and strong, so many good things were done…

5:12

 26 January 14.

My own dear love!

It must have been good to have Agnes with you? She wrote that you had given her a magnificent tour, showing her both the horses and the town. You sweet little love! I would have loved to be with you and often long to see you at work and in your world down there. –

Here…

5:13

Monday 25 January 1914

Dearest little dear Irmelin

Of course you are now so surprised at not having heard from me in all this time! But I'm sure you know that I think about you and talk to you anyway – I just can't help it – but if only you knew how much I missed you and miss you – but we'll see each other again…

5:14

St Josef Hospital in Esbjerg 27 January

Dear Carl,

Now I have started getting up on my feet again a little during the day, and then I first wanted to write to you and thank you for your message on my birthday, and please thank those who thought of me that day: Johannes Nielsen and Borup and Maren and Marie Møller and of course Marie and the…

5:15

 Vodroffsvej 53 30 January 14The date, aligned with the postmark, written by Anne Marie Nielsen.

My own love! I really miss hearing from your properly! I have been lying in bed for a couple of days but am now feeling better; it was insomnia and nerves! The thing is that, on Wednesday, I had a set-to with Benzon. The reason is that…

5:16

Dear Carl. I had really wanted to come home tomorrow, but because of the conditions I cannot leave, so I will come next Sunday. We're also having a thaw at the moment here. I have worn myself out a bit, but otherwise things are going well. I wonder how everything is, how it is all going? At home you write that H.B. is getting on with his things, and Søs…

5:17

1 February 1914 Copenhagen.

Dear friend!

Thanks for your letter the other day.

I would suggest the programme could look like this:

1 Symphony [CNW 27]

2 Saga Dream [CNW 35]

Motto from Njal's Saga: 'Now Gunnar dreams; let him…

5:18

Tuesday

Dear Marie. On Friday evening, Peder Møller and I are doing a concert in Gothenburg. Send us a fond thought. I am writing this on the tram that makes my hand shake. The question of the kapellmeister is being delayed a little. I am sticking to my guns. I know you think the same. In haste.

Your love

5:19

Grand Hotel Haglund

Gothenburg 5 February 1914

Dear Johannes!

This is the third piece of paper on which I’ve started writing to you today.

My thoughts are going around in circles, and you have to understand that a person like me – who since his earliest youth has struggled, worked, failed, triumphed, been the…

5:20

8 February 1914

Dear Carl!

Thank you for your letter! I will always, as the good friend I should like to be, open my heart and my ear to your woes (also your complaints if I deserve them) – but I don't think your arguments are right – (we can discuss that some day). My main conclusion regarding you and the kapellmeister…

5:21

[In Swedish:]

Gothenburg 9 February 1914

Dear Carl.

Heartfelt thanks for your kind telegram. And thanks for the lovely, but far too few, moments we got to spend with you.

You have won everyone's heart in the orchestra, and the eyes of the musicians light up when they speak of you.

5:22

With an enlarged orchestra of The Hamburg Society of Friends of Music, Siegmund von Hausegger held a concert at Musikhalle in Hamburg on 9 February 1914. The programme before the intermission consisted of Carl Nielsen's Symphony no. 3, Sinfonia Espansiva [CNW 27], and after the intermission of Brahms' Piano Concerto no. 1 and Beethoven's Leonore …

5:23

The Ministry of Kultus

10 February 14.

Dear Mr Kapellmeister!

At the death of Kapellmeister Rung, one of two positions as composer selector  at the Ancker Grant has become vacant. The other is occupied by Professor Otto Malling. The Minister of Kultus [Søren Keiser-Nielsen] would like to see you take over the…

5:24

Copenhagen 11 February 14.

Dear Sten!

Thank you for your letter and heartfelt thanks for all the friendship, music, art and warmth I have received from you and your wife over such a brief time. It seems to me that I have experienced so much over these two days, and I can't help saying a word or two, namely that it is so lovely to…

5:25

Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen came to Copenhagen from Celle on Friday afternoon, 6 February 1914, cf. Postcards to her children Søs and Hans Børge dated 3 and 4 February 1914. The following letter must have been written in Hamburg on the return journey to Celle, where, according to 5:26, she arrived on Wednesday afternoon 11 February, and posted to Copenhagen,…