In the Hall of the Mountain King ( I Dovregubbens hall).By His mount You Shall Judge Him ( På ridestellet skal storfolk kjennes).Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green ( Peer Gynt og den grønkledde).Peer Gynt and the Herd-Girls ( Peer Gynt og seterjentene).Ingrid's Lament ( Bruderovet / Ingrids klage) The Bridal Procession ( Brudefylgjet dreg forbi).Prelude: At the Wedding ( I brudlaupsgarden).The original score contains 26 movements: Movements indicated in bold were extracted by Grieg into two suites. Both recordings include several verses from the drama, read by actors. Some recordings that claim to contain the complete incidental music have 33 selections the recording conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud is split into 49 items. Various recordings have been made of this music. įor many years, the suites were the only parts of the music that were available, as the original score was not published until 1908, one year after Grieg's death, by Johan Halvorsen. In no case had I opportunity to write as I wanted. Įven though the premiere was a "triumphant success", it prompted Grieg to complain bitterly that the Swedish management of the theatre had given him specifications as to the duration of each number and its order: The more he saturated his mind with the powerful poem, the more clearly he saw that he was the right man for a work of such witchery and so permeated with the Norwegian spirit. Nina Grieg, his wife, wrote of Edvard and his music: Letter from Henrik Ibsen to Grieg, January 23, 1874. "Peer Gynt" progresses slowly, and there is no possibility of having it finished by autumn. However, it was much more difficult for Grieg than he imagined, as he wrote to a friend: When Ibsen asked Grieg to write music for the play in 1874, he reluctantly agreed. Peer Gynt's travels around the world and distant lands are represented by the instruments Grieg chooses to use.
Originally composing 90 minutes of orchestral music for the play, he later went back and extracted certain sections for the suites. Although composing many short piano pieces and chamber works, the work Grieg did for Henrik Ibsen stood out. Some of the music from these suites has received coverage in popular culture see Grieg's music in popular culture.Įdvard Grieg (1843–1907) was one of the definitive leaders of Scandinavian music. Grieg later created two suites from his Peer Gynt music.
It premiered along with the play on 24 February 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo). 23, is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1875. Edvard Grieg, in a photograph taken in 1888, by Elliott & Fry
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