Franz Neruda in memoriam, CNW 109 (Nielsen, Carl)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	Prologue
Composition Year	1915 September
Genre Categories	Secular cantatas; Cantatas; For narrator, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring a narrator; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices with orchestra; Danish language

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Editor	Kirsten Flensborg Petersen
Publisher. Info.	Vaerker, Series III, No.3 Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2008. Made available by courtesy of DCM.
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Work Title	Franz Neruda in Memoriam
Alternative. Title
Composer	Nielsen, Carl
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	CNW 109 ; FS 74
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ICN 71
Key	C major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	Prologue
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1915 September
First Performance.	1915-10-11 in Copenhagen, Odd Fellow Palæet (The Music Society). Carl Nielsen, conductor
Librettist	Julius Clausen (1868-1951)
Language	Danish
Average DurationAvg. Duration	5 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	Voice: reciter Orchestra: 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (A), 2 bassoons 4 horns (F), 2 trumpets (C), timpani, strings
External Links	Nielsen catalogue BNF data

Following Franz Neruda's death in March 1915, Nielsen was appointed as his successor as conductor of The Music Society (Musikforeningen). Nielsen interrupted the work on his Fourth Symphony in order to compose a work commemorating Neruda. Clausen's text was finished on 1 September and sent to Nielsen, and the first performance took place on 11 October.
In the preface to The Carl Nielsen Edition, this is referred to as a cantata, so it is tagged as such.