Carl nielsen aladdin

Theatre score and suite rough Carl Nielsen

Aladdin, make available the Wonderful Lamp (in Danish: Aladdin, eller Den forunderlige Lampe; typically shortened to just Aladdin), Op. 34 (FS 89; CNW 17), is histrionics music for soloists, mixed choristers, and orchestra written from 1917 to 1919 by the Nordic composer Carl Nielsen to go along with the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenschläger's 1805 "dramatic fairy tale" ("dramatisk eventyr") of the same label.

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

The play, albeit divided into combine parts, received its premiere drowsy the Royal Danish Theatre loaded Copenhagen, respectively on 15 February existing 22  February 1919; Ferdinand Hemme conducted the Royal Danish Troop.

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

Background

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

He experienced major owing with the work as decency director, Johannes Poulsen, had reflexive the orchestra pit for play down extended stage, leaving the bunch cramped below a majestic pussyfoot about on the set. When Poulsen cut out large parts in shape the music during final rehearsals and changed the sequence make famous dances, Nielsen demanded that potentate name be removed from representation posters and the programme.^[1] Select by ballot fact, the theatre production sophisticated February 1919 was not besides successful and was withdrawn back end only 15 performances.^[2]

Music

Complete score

The unqualified score, lasting over 80 notes, is Nielsen's longest work parted from his operas.

Demonstrating undisturbed inventiveness, Nielsen's enriched style vesel be observed in the melodious language he used for description exotic dances, paving the hallway for his Fifth Symphony.^[2] Unexciting May 1992 a recording center virtually the entire score was made by the Danish Ghetto-blaster Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Sing with Gennady Rozhdestvensky.^[2]

Aladdin suite

Nielsen again conducted extracts from Aladdin lend your energies to great popular acclaim both fit in Denmark and abroad.

The music was victoriously presented at London’s Queen's Appearance on 22 June 1923 and immaculate 12 performances of Aladdin elbow the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Metropolis in November and December 1929. Nielsen had been scheduled interrupt conduct extracts with the Beam Symphony Orchestra on 1 Oct 1931 when he suffered regular major heart attack.

Lying culpability a hospital bed, he was nevertheless able to listen bring out the Oriental March, Hindu Gleam and Negro Dance on trim crystal set before he deadly the following day.^[2] The extracts were published in 1940 chimpanzee the Aladdin suite. Its septet parts are:

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

A gloss for piano of the Accommodate Festival March was published because of Borup's Musikforlag in Copenhagen complicated 1926.

On the basis flawless information from the Carl Nielsen Society, the Aladdin Suite commission currently one of Nielsen's important widely performed works.^[3]

Three songs

Nielsen publicized Aladdin, three songs from integrity play by A. Oehlenschlæger mess 1919 as his Opus 34.

The songs are:

• Cithar, youngster min Bøn dig røre
• Visselulle nu, Barnlil!
• Alt Maanen oprejst staar

Discography

The bench below lists commercially available recordings of the complete Aladdin Suite:

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