Agnete and the Merman, Op.3 (Gade, Niels)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	8 songs
Composition Year	1842 ca,
Genre Categories	Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For voice, female chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring female chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; Danish language; For violin, piano (arr); For 2 players (arr); Scores featuring the violin (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)
Related Works	The 1849 work Agnete og Havfruerne is a different piece based upon 2 of the 8 songs.

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Publisher. Info.	Holograph manuscript, 1842.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Translator	Nicolai Christian Levin Abrahams (1798-1870), German text
Publisher. Info.	Copenhagen: C.C. Lose & Delbanco, n.d.(1845). Plate 2113.
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Arranger	Hans Sitt (1850-1922)
Publisher. Info.	Copenhagen: Hansen, n.d.[1894]. Plate 11304.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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Work Title	Agnete and the Merman
Alternative. Title	Agnete og Havmanden
Composer	Gade, Niels
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.3
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ING 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	8 songs
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1842 ca,
Librettist	Hans Christian Andersen (1805−1875)
Language	Danish
Dedication	A.P. Berggreen (vocal score)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, chorus, orchestra
Related Works	The 1849 work Agnete og Havfruerne is a different piece based upon 2 of the 8 songs.
External Links	DKB article (Danish) Wikipedia article (Dutch): Sange af Agnete og havmanden

Grove Music classifies this as "incidental music". Although other sources, including some Gade biographies, refer to it as a "lyrical drama", it is not a lyrical drama in the French sense, i.e. opera. According to this article, "Gade wrote the music for eight songs, some for a choir, in which each person is characterized by particular combinations of instruments. The piece thus glides into the ballad opera tradition with a mixture of song and spoken dialogue". Categorization might be contentious, but Grove Music's classification is probably the closest.
The original work was not terribly successful. Gade re-worked portions of it as Agnete and the Mermaids, and "Agnete's Berceuse" became probably the most popular selection from the original work, with many arrangements being made of it.