This unusual modernist work is divided into only two movements:
Tempo giusto — Adagio non troppo
Allegro — Presto — Andante un poco tranquillo —Allegro
The work premiered in Copenhagen in January 1922, with the composer conducting.
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 was written by Carl Nielsen.
Carl Nielsen released Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 on Tue Jan 24 1922.
While Nielsen did not provide much background on what he intended the work to be about, he did write in a letter:
I’m rolling a stone up a hill, I’m using the powers in me to bring the stone to the top. The stone lies there so still, powers are wrapped in it, until I give it a kick and the same pow...
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