The Symphony No. 5 (Op. 50, FS 97) by Danish composer Carl Nielsen was completed on 15 January 1922 and first performed in Copenhagen on 24 January 1922 with the composer conducting. It is one of two of Nielsen's six symphonies lacking a subtitle.
The Fifth Symphony is noted for its unusual structure - two movements instead of the customary three or four - and for the modernity of its language. As Nielsen's previous symphonies, its subjects are contrast and opposition, concerning the struggle between light and darkness, navigatism and affirmation, violence and humanity.
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