Commotio (choir)
Commotio can refer to: * Commotio (Nielsen), ''Commotio'' (Nielsen), organ work composed 1930–1931 * Commotio cordis, heart injury * Commotio retinae, known as Berlin's edema * Commotio cerebri, medical name for concussion {{Disambiguation ...
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Commotio (Nielsen)
Carl Nielsen's ''Commotio'' or ''Commotio for Organ'', Opus 58, was composed between June 1930 and February 1931. The composer's last major work, it was first performed privately on 24 April 1931 in the chapel at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. Background ''Commotio'' was considered by Nielsen to be a particularly important work. In a letter to his son-in-law Emil Telmányi on 24 February 1931 he wrote: "None of my other works has demanded such great concentration as this: an attempt to reconstitute what is truly the only valid organ style, the polyphonic music that is especially suited to this instrument, which for a long time has been regarded as a kind of orchestra, which it absolutely is not." Nielsen also commented on the length of the piece: at 22 to 24 minutes, it was longer than any of Bach's organ works.Niels Bo Foltmann, "Carl Nielsen: Piano and Organ Works"Carl Nielsen Edition, ''Royal Danish Library''. Retrieved 6 November 2010. There was great interest in the ...
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