9:25

Meeting at the conservatory at 12.30

At 3.30 AGM at The Composers' Society

9:1

Grand Hotel
Oslo 1 January 26

Dear Irmelin!

It was really sad that Mother had to be struck down with this and now has to be examined. I feel really miserable and would like you to be home on Monday between 5 o'clock, or maybe as early as 4.30, until 6 o'clock so I can find out how things are. If there is talk of an operation, could I…

9:2

Grand Hotel
Oslo 1 January 26

Dear Søs and Emil!

Things aren't that good with Mother after all. I spoke with Eggert and Irmelin on the telephone yesterday. Mother had an attack four days after Christmas and is now back in hospital. Tomorrow she's going to be examined with these instruments and that's not pleasant; but we have…

9:3

Grand Hotel
Oslo 3 January 26

Dear little Marie!

So now you have been examined, I hear. Tomorrow I will ring Eggert; he didn't think there would be any result from the examination before then. I think about you a lot and hope it wasn't too painful having that examination. – I'm now almost free of pain in my lower back, I think it…

9:4

Grand Hotel
Oslo 3 January 26

Dear Emil!

’Chinese Dance’ [9:1] is of course much more fun than ‘The Dance of the Mists’ [CNW 17], so I think we should have it written out in parts from your score. Since I'm giving the society the performance for free (in Stockholm I get 100 kroner), I'm sure they can do that. Tell Herman that. There's enough…

9:5

It's hardly surprising that people talk so much about the weather. The weather is Nature's disposition, and we size it up at every opportunity and adjust what we do according to whether it is severe and pure, capricious and inconstant, wild and furious or as gently warm and soft as the arms of a happy mother.

(to be developed)

9:6

Gothenburg 6 January 26

Dear little Marie!

It was good you got over that awful examination. Oh, I was thinking about you so much and I saw you before me so clearly before you had it. Your face was calm, serious and composed into such a serious expression, so characteristically good and human. My good little love!!

9:7

Gothenburg 6 January 26

Dear sweet Irme!

It went brilliantly in Oslo and the papers are inordinately generous. But after the trip I fell quite ill with vomiting and so on. However – that was only as a result of the social whirl and parties and good food, and now I've been lying here in bed since I arrived (yesterday at 3 o'clock)…

9:8

On the train 7 January 26Carl Nielsen and his daughter arrived in Copenhagen that same evening at 22.35 with the Christiania Express, cf. Nationaltidende 08.01.1926.

9:9

At the end of January and the beginning of February, Carl Nielsen travelled on two occasions on tours of the provinces with The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. The first three concerts took place in Nykøbing Falster, Ryslinge (Fynske Musikanteres dagbøger, II, p. 258, Ringe lokalhistoriske arkiv) and Aabenraa on 25, 26 and 27 January 1926, respectively. The second tour…

9:10

 10 January 26

Dear Balslev!

Well! Now! So! At last!

It is really a complete scandal that I have not written before now! I admit it in case you are already saying so. But – I do not, in fact, think you are saying so, because you are someone who thinks well and who is well able to…

9:11

The Royal Danish Academy of Music
Copenhagen 10 January 26

Dear Knud Jeppesen!

As usual it has been a great pleasure for me to see your students’ work. You can rest assured that it is very important for our musical life that work is done in this way and I thank you not just as a member of the Conservatory's management but also as a Danish…

9:12

Copenhagen 10 January 26

Dear friend!

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your letter, which I received now after a trip (Oslo, Gothenburg).

Unfortunately, it's completely impossible for me to come to Helsinki in January as I have to go on a tour with the orchestra from the 26th to 4 February.

9:13

The amateur Euphrosyne society organised a delayed celebration of Carl Nielsen’s 60th birthday on 26 January 1926. Poul Schierbeck conducted the celebration concert: Symphony no. 1 in G minor […

9:14

Copenhagen 11 January 26

Dear friend!

Thank you for your letter. It's a bore that I cannot be there on 25 February or 18 March. The thing is I have to be here to conduct on 23 February and 23rd March with choir rehearsals prior to that so that I have to be here from 19-23 February and from 19-23 March inclusive. After that, I'm completely…

9:15

Editor at Politiken

House of Politiken, Raadhuspladsen

Copenhagen B., 11 January 1926

Dear Carl Nielsen.

Thanks for your article,'Christian Sinding', Politiken 11.01.1926. Samtid no. 114. which is the most noble Danish tribute we could have hoped…

9:16

16 January 26

Dear Emil!

Thanks for your card today. I wish I was with you at this [word missing] and could cheer you up. I know what this kind of situation with an orchestra is like. I went through exactly the same thing but from a different starting-point. When I was kapellmeister at The Royal Theatre, I couldn’t stand it…

9:17

On 29 January 1926, Maurice Ravel came to Copenhagen with the night train. He was the principal figure at two concerts on 30 January and 2 February. In conjunction with the visit by Ravel, there were lectures about French music in general and Ravel in particular at the university, and on 31 January there was a French soirée:

‘To honour Maurice Ravel, yesterday evening…

9:18

(Voices from childhood)

Then I would go out onto the wild heath in a thunderstorm and ask God in heaven to strike me down with his lightning.

9:19

21 January 26

Dear friend!

Have spoken with Andersen; he has probably answered already. I'm somewhat in doubt about the matter but now it had better rest there. I wonder whether people will buy programmes?For Carl Nielsen's and The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra's concert in Ryslinge on 26 January 1926…

9:20

Ryslinge [9:9]

9:21

Aabenraa [9:9]

9:22

Hotel Kolding
Kolding, 28 January 1926

Dear Asger and Svend!

As I have been sent a reminder by the (still anonymous) publisherBorup's Music Publishers, who published Symphony no. 5 [CNW 29] that same year, whereas Symphony no. 6 [CNW 30] was not published until 1937 by The Society for the Publication of Danish…

9:23

My home soil draws me more and more, like a long, lingering kiss. Does it mean that the idea is that, in the end, I shall be going back to rest in Funen earth? Then it ought to be in the very place where I was born: Sortelung, Frydenlund's field.

Thunder and lightning in the night. (Memories)

9:24

Rehearsal at 11.30