FAIR COPY (AUTOGRAPH) OF SUITE FOR PIANO, OPUS 45
After the publication of the final volume of The Carl Nielsen Edition in 2009, two manuscripts in Nielsen’s handappeared in Sächsisches Staatsarchiv in Leipzig, namely the autographs of the String Quartet in F major, Opus
44 (vol. II/10) and the Piano Suite, Opus 45 (vol. II/12).
The circumstances related to these manuscripts are described in a short article in Carl Nielsen Studies 5(Copenhagen 2012), pp. 382-384.
Hardly any details in the published notation of The Carl Nielsen Edition would have looked different if these
two sources had lain before the editors in 2004 and 2006, but the discussions of filiation and source hierarchy
would naturally have been on safer ground.
Additions to the present List of Emendations and Editorial Readings in the two CNU volumes are published on
the errata list of CNU on the website: http://www.kb.dk/en/kb/nb/mta/cnu/errata.html.

DESCRIPTION OF SOURCE
Score, autograph, printing manuscript.
D-LEsta, 21070-5639
Title page: “Suite / für / Pianoforte / komponiert / von / Carl Nielsen / Op 45”.
Title on top of the first music page: “Suite / Carl Nielsen / Op 45”.
35,5x27 cm.
Paper type: No. 2, F. 10. 10 staves.
Sewn together, forming one binding.
Paginated 1-35.
Written in ink with instructions for the engraver added in pencil.
The source served as printing copy for Edition Peters’ printed score of 1923.
Including two typewritten pages, used as printing copy for the “Vorbemerkung” of the printed edition withnumerous pencil corrections in Nielsen’s hand, which later became part of the printed preface. The typescript
carries dating (“Kopenhagen, 24 April 1923”) and composer’s signature in ink.

EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS AND ALTERNATIVE READINGS
No. I
28pf.2

42pf.146

Lpz.: note 7: natural sign added in pencil
Lpz.: chord 3, inner part: b ’ missing
Lpz.: poco alargando

64

pf.2

Lpz.: dim crossed out in pencil

106

pf.2

Lpz.: second semiquaver: ten.

8

pf.2

Lpz.: lower part, notes 1-2: stacc. missing

16-18

pf.2

Lpz.: lower part: stacc. missing

No. II19

Lpz.: mf seems to be a later addition to the manuscript in CN’s hand with a different
pen41

pf.1

Lpz.: lower part: beginning of slur (open slur at change of system)

45

pf.1

Lpz.: upper part: end of slur on note 2 (the slur beginning in b.41)

47-48

pf.2

Lpz.: slur added in pencil

49

pf.2

Lpz.: treble clef added in pencil

57

pf.1

Lpz.: end of slur on chord 1 (slur beginning on the first note of the upper part of b.
56); chord 1: stacc. missing

60-62

pf.2

Lpz.: lower part: stacc. missing

74-79

pf.2

Lpz.: slur beginning on first note of b.74

75

Lpz.: più moto corrected in pencil (foreign hand) to più mosso

No. III
6pf.2

fourth quaver (note 1): ten. added by analogy with pf.1 and as in Lpz.

9-10

Lpz.: written on a piece of music paper glued on to the score

19

Lpz.: written on a piece of music paper glued on to the score

23

pf.2

23-24
24

Lpz.: chord 2: f, a, c’, f’
Lpz.: second half of b. 23 and b. 24 written on a piece of music paper glued on to thescore

pf.1

27

Lpz.: chord 4: c’’’ missing
Lpz.: rit. at seventh quaver, not at fourth quaver

No. IV
33
45

Lpz.: (sonare), brackets crossed out in pencil
pf.2

A, Lpz.: lower part: slur begins on note 3No. V
16-22

as in Lpz.

29

pf.2

49

pf.2

Lpz.: fourth semiquaver: f’, f’’, the lower f’ with an added question mark in pencil
Lpz.: grace note c’ added in pencil

69

pf.2

beginning of slur as in Lpz.

No. VI25

pf.1

Lpz.: note 1 of the glissando: marc.

45

pf.1

Lpz.: upper part note 2: 8va--- ends at second quaver

47

Lpz.: fz on first and third quaver

50

pf.2

Lpz.: note 1: marc.

85

pf.1

Lpz.: lower part notes 2-4: slur missing

87

pf.1

Lpz.: fourth quaver: stacc.

88

pf.1

Lpz.: lower part notes 2-4: slur missing

91

pf.1

Lpz.: fourth quaver: stacc.

131-134

pf.2

Lpz.: no stacc.

146

pf.2

Lpz.: lower part note 2: stacc.

159

pf.2

173

pf.2

Lpz.: note 3: d natural’ including a natural sign
Lpz.: note 2: d ’’ (clearly the composer’s mistake)

199

pf.1

Lpz.: m.s.

210

pf.1

Lpz.: lower part: 8va

216

pf.2

Lpz.: note 1: stacc.

226-232
233-236

Lpz.: written on a piece of music paper glued on to the score
pf.2

Lpz.: fz clearly referring to pf.2 only

248

Lpz.: calanto corrected in pencil in foreign hand to calando271-275

Lpz.: written on a piece of music paper glued on to the score

276

pf.2

Lpz.: chord 2: e’’, e’’’ (explicitly indicated to belong within the 8va mark)