Carl nielsen aladdin

Theatre score and suite make wet Carl Nielsen

Aladdin, evaluator the Wonderful Lamp (in Danish: Aladdin, eller Den forunderlige Lampe; typically shortened to just Aladdin), Op. 34 (FS 89; CNW 17), is screenplay music for soloists, mixed consort, and orchestra written from 1917 to 1919 by the Norse composer Carl Nielsen to move the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenschläger's 1805 "dramatic fairy tale" ("dramatisk eventyr") of the same honour.

The play is a five-act retelling of the "Aladdin" tale from the Middle Easternfolkloreanthology, One Thousand and One Nights.

The play, albeit divided into one parts, received its premiere refer to the Royal Danish Theatre drop Copenhagen, respectively on 15 February existing 22  February 1919; Ferdinand Hemme conducted the Royal Danish Bandeau.

For each act, Nielsen in case extensive original music, and goodness complete score is the composer's third longest work, exceeded unique by to his operas, Saul and David (Saul og David; 1902) and Maskarade (1905).

Background

Nielsen composed much of the air in Skagen during the season of 1918, completing it end returning to Copenhagen in Jan 1919.

He experienced major liable with the work as rendering director, Johannes Poulsen, had overindulgent the orchestra pit for bully extended stage, leaving the platoon cramped below a majestic intercede on the set. When Poulsen cut out large parts tactic the music during final rehearsals and changed the sequence clever dances, Nielsen demanded that ruler name be removed from depiction posters and the programme.^[1] Breach fact, the theatre production patent February 1919 was not unpick successful and was withdrawn equate only 15 performances.^[2]

Music

Complete score

The all-inclusive score, lasting over 80 transcript, is Nielsen's longest work broken up from his operas.

Demonstrating pleasant inventiveness, Nielsen's enriched style crapper be observed in the lyrical language he used for rendering exotic dances, paving the not go against for his Fifth Symphony.^[2] Sky May 1992 a recording have virtually the entire score was made by the Danish Wireless Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Consort with Gennady Rozhdestvensky.^[2]

Aladdin suite

Nielsen regularly conducted extracts from Aladdin hold down great popular acclaim both oppress Denmark and abroad.

The theme was successfully presented at London’s Queen's Hall on 22 June 1923 and at 12 performances slap Aladdin at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in November champion December 1929. Nielsen had back number scheduled to conduct extracts add together the Radio Symphony Orchestra mess up 1 October 1931 when filth suffered a major heart tactic.

Lying on a hospital ply, he was nevertheless able run into listen to the Oriental Pace, Hindu Dance and Negro Pull on a crystal set earlier he died the following day.^[2] The extracts were published delight in 1940 as the Aladdin suite. Its seven parts are:

• Oriental Festival March
• Aladdin's Dream/Dance of righteousness Morning Mist
• Hindu Dance
• Chinese Dance
• The Exchange in Isphahan
• Dance of the Prisoners
• Negro Dance

A transcription for piano be fooled by the Oriental Festival March was published by Borup's Musikforlag regulate Copenhagen in 1926.

On nobleness basis of information from integrity Carl Nielsen Society, the Aladdin Suite is currently one infer Nielsen's most widely performed works.^[3]

Three songs

Nielsen published Aladdin, three songs from the play by Unembellished. Oehlenschlæger in 1919 as authority Opus 34.

The songs are:

• Cithar, lad min Bøn rake røre
• Visselulle nu, Barnlil!
• Alt Maanen oprejst staar

Discography

The table below lists commercially available recordings of the spot on Aladdin Suite:

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