The last hundred years have seen the composition of several high quality symphonies cycle, from that of Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) to that of Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959), through one of Alexander Glazunov ( 1865-1936), Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942), Charles Tournemire (1870-1939), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Hugo Alfvén (1872- 1960), Charles Ives (1874-1954), of Havergal Brian (1876-1972), from Natanael Berg (1979-1957), Jan van Gilse (1881-1944), Karl Weigl (1881-1949) Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), George Enescu (1881-1954), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973), Arnold Bax (1883-1953), Egon Wellesz (1885-1974), of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Ernst Toch (1887-1964), Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974), Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Prokofiev (1891-1953), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Jean Absil (1893-1974), Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), Walter Piston (1894-1976), Paul Hindemith (1895- 1963), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1895-1968), William Grant Still (1895-1978), Howard Hanson (1896-1931), Richard Flury (1896-1967), Roger Sessions (1896-1985) Jean Rivier (1896-1987), Alexander Tansman (1897-1986), Roy Harris (1898-1979), Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), Robert Casadesus (1899-1972), Carlos Chávez ( 1899-1978), George Antheil (1900-1959), Ernst Krenek (1900-1991), Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986), Conrad Beck (1901-1986), Vissarion Shebalin (1902-1963 ), Gavriil Popov (1904-1972), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963), Eduard Tubin (1905-1982), William Alwyn (1905-1985), Eugene Bozza (1905-1991), Benjamin Frankel (1906-1973), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) of course, but also of Paul Creston (1906-1985), Arnold Cooke (1906-2005), Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991 ), Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), Miloslav Kabelac (1908-1979), Vagn Holmboe of (1909-1996), William Schuman (1910-1992), Allan Pettersson (1911-1980), of Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Donald Gillis (1912-1978), Daniel Jones (1912-1993), Lloyd George (1913-1998), Humphrey Searle (1915-1982), Vincent Persichetti (1915 -1987), David Diamond (1915-2005), Isang Yun (1917-1995), Richard Arnell (born 1917), George Rochberg (1918-2005), Lex van Delden (1919 to 1988) , Cláudio Santoro (1919-1989), Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Galina Oustvolskaïa (1919-2006), Alexander Lokshin (1920-1987), Peter Racine Fricker (1920-1990), Robert Simpson (1921-1997), Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Francis Thorne (born 1922), Hans Werner Henze (born in 1926), of Einojuhani Rautavaara (born 1928), Avet Terterian (1929-1994), John Davison (born 1930), Aubert Lemeland (born 1932), David Morgan (born 1932), Jaan Rääts (born in 1932), of Easley Blackwood (born 1933), by Jacques Charpentier (born 1933), Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1934), Guia Kancheli (born 1935) Aulis Sallinen for (born 1935), Philip Glass (born in 1937), Valentin Silvestrov (born 1937), William Bolcom (born 1938), William Thomas McKinley (born 1938), Boris Tishchenko (born 1939), Leif Segerstam (born in 1944), of Péteris Vasks (born 1946), Jean-Claude Wolff (born 1946), or even of Kalevi Aho (born 1949), not to mention many isolated masterpieces. All the symphonies we left Carl Nielsen is one of the most important among them.
Carl Nielsen was born in 1865 in Nørre Lyndelse (Denmark). His father, a painter construction worker, was also very popular as a village musician, and he learned to play the violin to his children. In 1879, he left his family to occupy a place in the military band cornet Odense, where he will stay for four years before joining Copenhagen for his musical training. He died in 1931 in Copenhagen.
Among the major works of Lielsen, one can particularly note a "Symphonic Suite" for piano, as well as preludes for organ, two sonatas for violin and piano, five string quartets, a "Serenata In Vano" for clarinet, bassoon, horn, cello and double bass, a wind quintet, a violin concerto, a concerto for flute and a clarinet concerto, six symphonies, three operas, "Snefrid," "Saul and David" and "Maskarade" choral music and songs for solo voice.
