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This success received a blow in March 1789, when an opera, Holger Danske, which he had written, was received with heated controversy and a nationalist reaction against him ( as an associate of Germans ) set in.

He left Denmark in a rage and spent the next years in Germany, France and Switzerland.

He married at Bern in 1790, began to write in German and published in that language his next poem, Alpenlied.