Description

Grieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's drama "Peer Gynt" contains some of his best-known compositions, such as "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Grieg later extracted the most beautiful pieces to form two orchestral suites, arranging these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands.

During the preparation of our Urtext edition, we encountered a surprise - the second suite originally contained an additional movement, "Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter," which Grieg had deleted shortly after the initial publication. This charming dance is now included in the appendix of our edition, printed for the first time in 120 years. The Norwegian pianist and Grieg expert Einar Steen-Nøkleberg served as co-editor for our edition and also provided the new fingerings.