Volume 39, Number 17 · October 22, 1992
Great Dane
By Robert Craft
Niels Lyhne
by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson
Fjord Press, 217 pp., $19.95
The Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885) is little known in America, except among musical people, and largely through Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (1900–1911), a German-language setting of Jacobsen's Gurresange ballad. Some concert audiences have also heard Jacobsen's shorter poems in songs by his compatriot Carl Nielsen and by Frederick Delius, whose last opera, Fennimore and Gerda, was an adaptation of the two main episodes of Jacobsen's novel Niels Lyhne.[1]
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