Music and Philosophy

Abstract

Danish society, which for good or ill provided the foundation for Carl Nielsen's existence as man and artist, was, like any other society in what was then called 'the civilised world', a social formation on the way towards bourgeois democracy, industrialisation and the total dominance of the capitalist system of production. This development pursued its own particular paths in Denmark; of relevance here was the fact that our social economy, and the country's well-being as a whole, was dependent on agriculture in a different way from any other nation.