Notes, letters, etc.


 

The original documents are to be found at the Royal Library, unless otherwise stated.

Abbreviations:
RLP + nr. = kept in the Rued Langgaard Private Archive, (shelf number: Utilg. 554).
RLS + nr. = kept in the Rued Langgaard Collection, Music Department.

Scanning carried out by the Royal Library, 1996.





Notes, etc. by Rued Langgaard


Chronological order.

Section of note with signatures. Loose, undated scrap of paper (c. 1911). RLP 1. (59 Kb)

From notes on the work, 'Vaarbrud' (Spring) (Symphony No. 2); p.3 entitled "(III)" dated 24.10.1914. RLP 4. (50 Kb)

Note "Musik er Haandværk..." ("Music is a craft..."). From a notebook dated 1925, labelled "...Vedrørende 'Antikrist' (Citater)" ("... Concerning 'Antichrist' (Quotations)"). RLP 3. (135 Kb)

"Fremtidens Frelser..." ("The Coming Saviour..."). Manuscript [1922]. RLS 139a,1. Title page (65 Kb)

"Jesu musikalske Selskab..." ("The Musical Society of Jesus..."). Manuscript [1922]. RLS 139a,1. Section of preface p. I (230 Kb) p. 18 (59 Kb) p. 19 (56 Kb) p. 33 ("Alle Tings Musik" ("The Music of All Things"))(122 Kb) p. 34(191 Kb)

Letter to the editor addressed to Louis Glass concerning Carl Nielsen. Draft dated 27.8.1925. From a notebook entitled "...Bagsværd Sommer 1925" ("...Bagsværd Summer 1925"), RLP 3. (143 Kb)

Note entitled "From Turen" ("From the Trip"). Loose sheet of paper dated Whit Sunday 1933. RLP 1. p. 1 (86 Kb) p. 2 (79 Kb)

Note "Jeg er No 1 herhjemme i Musik..." ("I am No. 1 in Denmark as regards music..."), dated 19.11.1933. RLP 4. (40 Kb)

List of accounts. Loose sheet of paper dated 1933 and 1934. RLP 2. (193 Kb)

Note concerning "Komposition..." ("Composition..."). Loose scrap of paper dated 19.1.1934. RLP 1. (109 Kb)

Section of a loose title page for a score, entitled "Nirvana..." dated 1934. RLP 1. (32 Kb)

Note "Være det Paradoxale selv..." ("Be the essence of paradox..."). Undated (1936). From a small, untitled block with a brown cover, RLP 3. (67 Kb)

Call slip from The Royal Library bearing the suggested title, "Finisterre" and other things. Undated RLP 1. (237 Kb)

Note "Jeg vil være Organist..." ("I will be an organist..."), dated 30.3.1937. From an untitled notebook with a brown cover, RLP 2.(72 Kb)

Manuscript entitled "Laub kontra Jesu-Lignelserne" ("Laub contra the Parables of Jesus"), dated 9.4.1940. RLS 139,18. (399 Kb)

Note "Det kan ikke nytte noget..." ("It is to no avail...") (about Ixion and other matters). Loose sheet of paper, dated 1944. RLP 4. (122 Kb)

List of his favourite dishes (?). Loose sheet of paper, undated. RLP 4. (44 Kb)

Note concerning Symphony No. 6/Carl Nielsen (1944). RLS 19,1. (63 Kb)

Note concerning "Min Begravelse" ("My burial"). Written on the back of a postcard to RL, dated 6.3.1946. RLP4. (65 Kb)

List bearing the title, "1948", concerning scores sent to Danish Radio and other places. Loose sheet of paper. RLP 4. (163 Kb)

Note "Vedrørende 'dansk Musik' 1890-1947" ("Concerning 'Danish music' 1890-1947"). Written on a rejected title page, RLS 45,5. (150 Kb)

"Efterskrift" ("Postscript"), dated 1949. Attached to a letter to to Axel Bruun. 3 pages. RLP 6. p. 1 (99 Kb) p. 2 (93 Kb) p. 3 (72 Kb)

Note "Livet vil drukne..." ("Life will drown..."). Loose scrap of paper dated 4.11.1951. RLP 1. (181 Kb)

Note dated June 1952, pasted into the score of Symphony No. 11, RLS 27,1. (45 Kb)



Notes, etc. by Siegfried Langgaard



Notebook entitled "Siegfried Langgards Tankeoptegnelser" ("Siegfried Langgaard's notes on thoughts"), the beginning, dated August 1884. Section of page, not numbered, with an addendum by RL. New Royal Library Collection 4328, 4º (file 3). (56 Kb)

Siegfried Langgaard: Om Kunstarternes Samklang i Verdensharmonien (On the Concord of the Arts within the Harmony of the Universe). Title page. New Royal Library Collection 2549, 2º (file 2). (64 Kb)



Letters from Rued Langgaard


Chronological order.

Letter to Kaj [Rohweder] dated 11.6.1909. Pages 1+4 (sample). RLP 7. (84 Kb)

Letter to Niels W. Gade's widow dated 11.6.1912. Privately owned (reproduced with permission). p. 1 (58 Kb) p. 2 (37 Kb) p. 1 large format (253 Kb) p. 2 large format (115 Kb)

Letter to Kaj [Rohweder] dated April 1913 (sample). RLP 7. p. 1 (37 Kb) p. 2 (24 Kb)

Unfinished letter to Louis Glass [July 1916]. First page (sample). RLP 7. (44 Kb)

Letter to Emma Langgaard from Amsterdam dated 23.10.1920. RLP 8. (46 Kb)

Telegram to Emma Langgaard from Berlin dated 11.5.1922. RLP 8. (37 Kb)

Telegram to Emma Langgaard from Karlsruhe dated 15.1.1923. RLP 8. (36,5 Kb)

Unaddressed letter concerning Siegfried Langgaard's monographs dated May 1928. New Royal Library Collection 2549, 2º (file 3). (78 Kb)

Letter to Alexander Glazunow. Draft in Danish dated 5.1.1933. RLP 6. (87 Kb)

Letter to Launy Grøndahl dated 28.12.1937. RLP 6. (62 Kb)

Letter from the state broadcasting service to RL dated 17.11.1938, returned by RL with comments. Danish Radio Archives (reproduced with the permission of DR). (48 Kb)

Letter from the state broadcasting service to RL dated 2.3.1945, returned by RL with comments. Danish Radio Archives (reproduced with the permission of DR). (68 Kb)

Letter from the state broadcasting service to RL dated 11.6.1948, returned by RL with comments. Danish Radio Archives (reproduced with the permission of DR). (33 Kb)

Unaddresed postcard with "Marsch" dated 8.10.1949. RLP 7. Back, with text (60 Kb) Front (front of the organ in Ribe Cathedral) (39 Kb)

Letter to Launy Grøndahl dated 29.1.1949. RLP 6. (142 Kb)



Letters from other people



Alphabetic order according to the name of the writer

Letter from Alexander Glazunow to RL dated 11.3.1933. RLP 6. (91 Kb)

Letter from Edvard Grieg to Emma Langgaard dated 7.4.1905. 3 pages. New Royal Library Collection 4328, 4º (file 2). p. 1 (60 Kb) p. 2 (67 Kb) p. 3 (58 Kb)

Letter from Fini Henriques to RL dated 26.10.1932. RLP 4. (86 Kb)

Letter from Emma Langgaard to Hans von Wolzogen dated 16.12.1912. 4 pages. New Royal Library Collection 4328, 4º (file 1). p. 1 (75 Kb) p. 2 (78 Kb) p. 3 (81 Kb) p. 4 (81 Kb)

Letter from Siegfried Langgaard to RL dated July 1912. First page. RLP 7. (86 Kb)

Letter from Franz Liszt to Siegfried Langgaard dated 7.5.1886. New Royal Library Collection 4328, 4º (file 2). (154 Kb)



Other documents



Front page of "Diplome d'Honneur" (bipartition of the title, "professeur honoraire") dated 29.6.1951. RLP 4. (62 Kb)

 


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