Musical scores

 

The original manuscripts are to be found in the Royal Library, unless otherwise stated.

Abbreviations:
RLS + nr. = serial number of the manuscript in the Rued Langgaard Collection, Music Department.
BVN + nr. = number of the work in Bendt Viinholt Nielsen: Rued Langgards Kompositioner. Annoteret værkfortegnelse (Rued Langgaard's Compositions. An annotated catalogue of works). Odense University Press, 1991.

Scanning carried out by the Royal Library in 1996. Copyright-owners are stated.

 

Opera

Antikrist (Antichrist) (BVN 170)
Fragment RLS 5,1. Beginning of "Forspil" ("Prelude"). (79 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.



Orchestral music

Symphony No. 4 (BVN 124)
Fair copy of score RLS 14,2 (1916/1920). Section at cfr. YY [bell section]. (71 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Symphony No. 6 (BVN 165)
Fair copy of score RLS 19,1 (loose leaf). Note on the symphony/Carl Nielsen. (63 Kb)
Fragment RLS 19,4. Section, beginning of [Fugue]. (38 Kb)
Piano draft RLS 19,5. Section. (99 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Symphony No. 11 (BVN 303)
Fair copy of score RLS 27,1. Section, theme p. 5. (38 Kb)
Same manuscript. Note pasted into the score. (45 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Symphony No. 12 (BVN 318)
Fair copy of score RLS 28,1. Note added on the penultimate page of the score. (32 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Symphony No. 16 (BVN 417)
Piano draft RLS 32,2. Beginning of "Finale". (98 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Piano Concerto (after Siegfried Langgaard) (BVN B29)
Rejected title page RLS 45,5. Note "Concerning 'Danish Music'...". (150 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.



Chamber music

String Quartet No. 3 (BVN 183)
Fair copy of score RLS 62,1. Section of 1st movement. (77 Kb)
Same score. End of 3rd movement. (74 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

String Quartet No. 5 (BVN 189)
Fair copy of score RLS 64,3 (1925). Section, beginning of 2nd movement. (61 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Violin Sonata No. 3 (BVN 312)
Fair copy of score RLS 73,1. Title. (50 Kb)
Same score. Final date, 3rd movement. (19 Kb)
Draft RLS 73,3. Final date, sheet 3. (8 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

String Quartet (BVN U7)
Unfinished fair copy of score RLS 77,3. Note added after last bar. (30 Kb)
© The Langgaard Foundation


Piano

Blomstervignetter [I] (Flower Vignettes [I]) (BVN 56)
Fair copy RLS 82,22. Beginning of 4th movement. (28 Kb)
© Ries & Erler Musikverlag, Berlin.

Fantasi-Sonate (Fantasy Sonata) [1916 version] (BVN 121)
Fair copy RLS 83,1a. Begining. (41 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Fanfare-Polonaise (BVN 125) (four-hand piano)
In the Rued Langgaard Private Archive, The Royal Library, under the call number Tilg. 554,6.
Title page. (39 Kb) The whole composition (page 1). (67 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Insektarium (Insectarium) (BVN 134)
Fair copy RLS 83,3. Beginning of 6th movement. (29 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Afgrundsmusik (Music of the Abyss) (BVN 169)
Draft RLS 83,7. Preface. (46 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Piano Sonata No. 3 (BVN 268)
Fair copy RLS 80,1. Beginning of 3rd movement. (48 Kb)
Same manuscript. Section of the 3rd movement. (29 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Vanvidsfantasi (Fantasia of Madness) (BVN 327)
Fair copy RLS 85,14. Beginning of 1st movement. (69 Kb)
© Engstrøm & Sødring A/S.

Chiesa madre (BVN 367)
Fair copy RLS 91,15. Beginning of 4th movement. (36 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Le Béguinage (BVN 369)
Fair copy RLS 85,17. Beginning of 2nd movement. (49 Kb)
Same manuscript. Section of 2nd movement. (52 Kb)
© Engstrøm & Sødring A/S.

Hél-Sfærernes Musik (Music of the Hell-Spheres) (BVN 371)
Fair copy RLS 85,20. Beginning. (50 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.



Organ

Som Lynet er Kristi Genkomst (As Lightning Cometh Christ Again) (BVN 341)
First fair copy RLS 91,2. End. (34 Kb)
© Edition Egtved.

Store Bededag [II] (The Great Day of Prayer [II]) (BVN 348)
Fair copy/draft RLS 91,4. Section. (47 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Øde Gader (Deserted Streets) (BVN 373)
Fair copy RLS 91,20. Beginning. (42 Kb)
Same manuscript. Motto (title page). (23 Kb)
© Edition Egtved.

Dantes Helvede (Dante's Inferno) (BVN 421)
Fair copy RLS 91,59. End. (34 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.



Vocal music

Symphony No. 2 (BVN 53)
Fragment RLS 11,5. Section, beginning of Adagio. (55 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

The Star in the East (BVN 180)
Score RLS 129,1. Title. (33 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Symphony No. 8 (BVN 193)
Fragment of the score (4th movement) RLS 23,21. Date. (24 Kb)
Fragment (unused final movement) RLS 23,27. Beginning. (75 Kb)
Rejected title page RLS 23,36 bl. 3. Title (section). (86 Kb)
Same sheet. Note on the reverse. (78 Kb)
Rejected title page RLS 23,36 bl. 5. Title (section). (83 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Carl Nielsen, vor store Komponist (Carl Nielsen, Our Great Composer) (BVN 355b)
Score (incomplete) RLS 96,1. Title. (60 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

Symphony No. 15 (BVN 375)
Fair copy of score RLS 31,1. String section, beginning of the symphony. (85 Kb)
© The Society for the Publication of Danish Music.

 

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