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 and arranged these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands. During the preparation of our Urtext edition, we discovered a surprise - the second suite originally contained an additional movement, the "Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter," which Grieg had deleted shortly afterwards. This charming dance appears for the first time in 120 years in the appendix to our edition. The Norwegian pianist and Grieg expert Einar Steen-Nøkleberg served as co-editor for our edition and provided the new fingerings.

Songs / Content

• Peer Gynt Suit no. 1 op. 46
• Morning Mood op. 46,1
• The Death of Åse op. 46,2
• Anitra's Dance op. 46,3
• In the Hall of the Mountain King op. 46,4
• Peer Gynt Suit no. 2 op. 55
• The Abduction of the Bride (Ingrid's Lament) op. 55,1
• Arabian Dance op. 55,2
• Peer Gynt's Return Home (Stormy Evening on the Coast) op. 55,3
• Solvejg's Song op. 55,4
• Appendix: Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter