Letter – Volume 7 (1921-1923)

Preface for volume 7
By John fellow

1921

1
Date: 1921-01-03
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Julius Röntgen

7:1

Monday

3 January 1921

Carl Nielsen to Julius Röntgen, Amsterdam

Copenhagen 3 January 21.

Dear friend!

Happy New Year to you and yours. Thanks for last year and all the happiness and hospitality you showed me and arranged for me in your splendid artists’ home! –

And now to your letter! –

I thank you with all my heart for your interesting, thought-provoking letter.…

2
Date: 1921-01-03
From: Margrete Rosenberg
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

7:2

Monday 3 January 1921Date added later. Margrete Rosenberg, Damgaard pr. Fredericia, to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen

Dear Marie!

I suppose neither of us has celebrated New Year's Eve with parties and fireworks. It is so boring on an evening like that! I got two sweets instead of the one I get every day. And you, you have to lie there and be dreadfully restrained. As long as you can stand going through all the '…

3
Date: 1921-01-07
From: Anne Marie Telmányi
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

7:3

Friday

7 January 19218 January was later added to the letter, probably, as in many other cases, in connection with the throwing out of the envelope, whose postmark formed the basis for the date, but the letter was clearly sent on the same day as the Busoni concert mentioned in the letter, i.e. 7 January.

Anne Marie Telmányi, Berlin, to Irmelin Eggert Møller, Copenhagen

Emil Telmányi was the soloist in Ferruccio Busoni's…

4
Date: 1921-01-08
From: Anne Marie Telmányi
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

7:4

Saturday

8 January 1921Postmarked in Berlin on this day.

Anne Marie Telmányi, Berlin, to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen

Dear little Mother!

How are you getting on? You have no idea how beautifully Emil played the Busoni concerto yesterday; it was captivating. Just get better soon – tomorrow we are leaving for Poland. – 

Much love.

…

5
Date: 1921-01-13
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

7:5

Thursday

13 January 1921Postmarked in Berlin on this day.

Carl Nielsen to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen

Hotel Baltic nr. Stettiner Station
Berlin

Dear Marie!

I have already been to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum and got to see the old Dutch painters (v. Eyck, Memling and so on) in particular. I so much miss not being able to go around with you and to…

6
Date: 1921-01-13
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Carl Johan Michaelsen

7:6

Thursday

13 January 1921

Carl Nielsen to Carl Johan Michaelsen, Copenhagen

Berlin 13 January 21 (night)

Dear friends!

I have been to a Busoni concert and together with a lot of music people. Everybody says that Paul de Wit is a highly regarded collector of old instruments and has donated rare pieces to the instrument museum here in Berlin. The great publisher Dr Hase (Breitkopf-Härtel) says the same. – Here…

7
Date: 1921-01-15
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

7:7

Saturday

15 January 1921

Carl Nielsen to Irmelin Eggert Møller, Copenhagen

Berlin 15 January 21.

Dear Irmelin!

I wonder how you have enjoyed the trip; I imagine you have and have sent you a fond thought once in a while. And now you are back home in your cosy rooms again!

I have heard Busoni's concert, as you know, but more about that when we see each other. He left for Hamburg the day…

8
Date: 1921-01-15
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Carl Johan Michaelsen

7:8

Saturday

15 January 1921

Carl Nielsen to Carl Johan Michaelsen, Copenhagen

Hotel Baltic 15-1-21.

Dear Carl Johan!

Now listen! I travelled to Leipzig yesterday and went straight to de Wit, a very interesting man (he owns and edits the well-known specialist German journal Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau) with what is surely a unique knowledge of old instruments, which (especially as concerns…

9
Date: 1921-01-16
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen

7:9

Sunday

16 January 1921

Carl Nielsen to Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, The District General Hospital, Copenhagen

Berlin 16 January 21

Dear Marie!

I've been in Leipzig looking at old instruments. Michaelsen will probably buy two of them, which are great rarities. I have tried them and it was a delight to hear those tones that made me think of Albrecht Dürer and Gothic vaults and stained glass; a particular…

10
Date: 1921-01-18
From: Anne Marie Telmányi
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

7:10

Tuesday

18 January 1921Postmarked in Berlin on this day.

Anne Marie Telmányi, Berlin, to Irmelin Eggert Møller, Copenhagen

Dearest Irmelin!

You can bet Father is a handsome Scandinavian. We're sitting at the finest eating house for the second time and salivating. Will be coming on Friday. Much love.

[Carl Nielsen:]

Much love from Father to the pair…

11
Date: 1921-01-25
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Thorvald Aagaard

7:11

Tuesday

25 January 1921

Carl Nielsen to Thorvald Aagaard, Ryslinge

Copenhagen 25 January 21.

Dear Thorvald!

Request from Wilhelm Hansen a copy of the conditions with his signature 'as a matter of life and death' as they say.

I have finished 'Simple-rooted...' [CNW 238] and also Richardt's.Carl Nielsen wrote two songs to texts by Christian Richardt for the first…

12
Date: 1921-02-01
From: Thomas Laub
To: Carl Nielsen

7:12

Tuesday

1 February 1921

Thomas Laub, Gentofte, to Carl Nielsen, Copenhagen

1 February 1920.[!]

Dear Carl N.

I just now got your music for the new play.The parts of the music for Helge Rode's play The Mother, op. 41 [CNW 18], which had just been published on the occasion of the premiere at The Royal Theatre on 30 January 1921. In The Mother, the Scald and the Jester…

13
Date: 1921-02-03
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Irmelin Eggert Møller

7:13

Thursday

3 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Højtofte, Humlebæk, to Irmelin Eggert Møller, Copenhagen

Villa Højbo Tibberup nr.
Humlebæk
3 February 21.

Dear Irmelin!

I wonder how you managed over the Sound yesterday? I sent you a fond thought, but today in particular I have been thinking of you when I took a walk in the high wind and saw the white-crested waters out there. And I wonder what your new maid is…

14
Date: 1921-02-03
From: Carl Nielsen
To: John May

7:14

Thursday

3 February 1921

Carl Nielsen to John May, Stockholm

Copenhagen 3 February 21

Dear Brother John May!

Thank you for your two letters. A shame I didn't catch you in Copenhagen!

As regards your question, I'm sure I can arrange to be at the disposal of The Concert Society from 21 March to 28 April, but with one reservation, which is around the final week of April when I have to…

15
Date: 1921-02-03
From: Carl Nielsen
To: John May

7:15

Thursday

3 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Højtofte, Humlebæk, to John May, Stockholm

Villa Højbo Tibberup nr. Humlebæk
3 February 21.

Dear John May!

The question as to whether it is good for an orchestra to be directed by different conductors cannot be answered just like that, for as a rule it depends on the individuals in question and on living people.

But I would say the following:…

16
Date: 1921-02-04
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Thorvald Aagaard

7:16

Friday

4 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Højtofte, Humlebæk, to Thorvald Aagaard, Ryslinge

Villa Højbo Tibberup nr. Humlebæk
4 February 21

Dear Thorvald!

Now I have the melodies finished and with easy accompaniments for the following numbers in The Folk High School Songbook: 125 [CNW 254] – 137 [CNW 242] – 141 [CNW 240] – 157 [CNW 239] – 158 [CNW 249] – 162 [CNW 247] – 182 [CNW 246] – 192 [CNW 238…

17
Date: 1921-02-12
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Emil Telmányi

7:17

Saturday

12 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Tibberup nr. Humlebæk, to Emil Telmányi, Copenhagen

12 February 21

Dear Emil!

Thank you for the other day! Your Lalo finaleTogether with the pianist Sandor Vás, Emil Telmányi gave a concert on Thursday 10 February 1921 in the Odd Fellow Palace's grand hall. The programme contained, among other things, Symphonie Espagnole by Eduard Lalo…

18
Date: 1921-02-12
From: Carl Nielsen
To: William Behrend

7:18

Saturday

12 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Højtofte, Humlebæk, to William Behrend

Villa Højbo, Tibberup nr. Humlebæk

12 February 21.

Dear W.B.!

I have written to Telmányi straight away saying he should return the pieces to the library.

Another question is the following:

A friend and former pupil of mine, Director Michaelsen, told me the other day…

19
Date: 1921-02-15
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Rudolph Simonsen

7:19

Tuesday

15 February 1921The postcard is postmarked in Humlebæk on this day.

Carl Nielsen, Højtofte, Humlebæk, to Rudolph Simonsen, Copenhagen

Villa Højbo, Tibberup nr. Humlebæk.

Dear Mr S.!

You know how much your works interest me, but I do not dare promise to be ready on Sunday as I am in the midst of something that occupies me very greatly and is giving me much trouble,…

20
Date: 1921-02-16
From: Carl Nielsen

7:20

Wednesday

16 February 1921

Carl Nielsen to Aage Thomsen Brandmose, Copenhagen

Tibberup 16 February 21

Mr Thomsen Brandmose!

With thanks for your kind letter, I would suggest that 'dedicated to Johan B.' should not appear on each individual contribution. I think it would seem less tasteful and end up being reminiscent of certain advertising phenomena.*

Could we not make it…

21
Date: 1921-02-17
From: Carl Nielsen

7:21

Thursday

17 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Tibberup nr. Humlebæk, to Emil and Anne Marie Telmányi, Copenhagen

17 February 21

Dear Emil!

It was really very sweet of you to send me tobacco! How could you know that it came exactly at the right moment!! Many thanks, dear Emil! I will be coming to the concert tomorrow,Emil Telmányi's and Sándor Vas' second and last concert in…

22
Date: 1921-02-17
From: Carl Nielsen

7:22

Thursday

17 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Tibberup nr. Humlebæk, to Aage Oxenvad. Recommendation

Aage Oxenvad, member of The Royal Orchestra, is such a well-known and highly respected musician that it seems strange to me to be asked for a recommendation regarding his abilities. Nevertheless, it is a true pleasure for me to do so. –

Mr Oxenvad's abilities and talent are truly unusual here in Denmark. Not only his rare gifts and…

23
Date: 1921-02-17
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Aage Oxenvad

7:23

Thursday

17 February 1921Date added later?

Carl Nielsen, Tibberup nr. Humlebæk, to Aage Oxenvad

Dear Oxenvad!

The parts have got lost; but then I am sure you cannot be bothered to write it out and that I can well understand. Here is a score, which I would like to have back if you do nevertheless decide to write it out. Do as you wish. Regards.

Yours,

C.N.

24
Date: 1921-02-23
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Julius Rabe

7:24

Wednesday

23 February 1921

Carl Nielsen to Julius Rabe, Partille, Västra Götaland

Tibberup nr. Humlebæk
23 February 21

Dear friend!

Thank you for the journal! It is a truly brilliant and pertinent article and what you say about all the lighter genre is such a delight for Danish ears. It is right; but this light, amiable, talented empty-headedness may, of course, be a form of medicine for the mind, but is…

25
Date: 1921-02-24
From: Carl Nielsen
To: Frants Buhl

7:25

Thursday

24 February 1921

Carl Nielsen, Højtofte, Humlebæk, to Frants Buhl, Copenhagen

Villa Højbo Tibberup nr. Humlebæk
24 February 21.

Dear Professor Buhl!

I am afraid it keeps dragging out. I had been looking forward to visiting you at some point and handing you my piano variations [CNW 87]. However, I am now getting on so well with a new symphony [CNW 29] that I will have to put it off again and so…