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unusual facts about Carl Nielsen



Guy Woolfenden

Woolfenden has conducted three productions with the Scottish Opera, as well as the first British productions of Nielsen's Saul and David, Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans and Liszt's Don Sanche.

Nancy Dalberg

Her father, a well-off industrialist, refused her wish to study at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen and in the end she took private composition lessons from Johan Svendsen, Fini Henriques and Carl Nielsen.


see also

My Childhood

Min Fynske Barndom (1927), by Carl Nielsen, translated into English as My Childhood or as My Childhood Symphony