Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music

Featuring

Mina Miller
Carl August Nielsen

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Recording & Production

This album features the first recorded versions of Carl Nielsen's entire piano music based on a critical revision completed by the performer, Mina Miller, in 1982.

Performer Biography

Mina Miller, the pianist on this recording, is also a noted scholar who edited the critical edition of Carl Nielsen's complete piano music and authored "Carl Nielsen: A Guide to Research."

Compositional Technique

Carl Nielsen's piano works, while largely traditional in form, include advanced and original harmonic and tonal techniques, especially in his later compositions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Carl Nielsen, the composer, believed that art based on emotion becomes redundant unless it is universal in time, and sought a balance between lyrical/subjective and epic/artistic elements in his music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Nielsen's lifelong admiration for Mozart, the classical composer, reveals a classical orientation and a penchant for values emphasizing music's essential structure, interval, and rhythm.

Composer Biography

During his lifetime, Carl Nielsen held an important position in Denmark's musical and cultural life, and his dominance influenced later generations of Danish composers.