Peer Gynt

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 691 words | Copyright

Peer Gynt. Play by Ibsen for which Grieg comp. 23 items of incidental mus., Op.23, 1874–5, f.p. Christiania, Feb. 1876. Later arr. for pf., 4 hands, then as 2 orch. suites: No.1 (Op.46, 1874–5, rev. 1888): 1. Morning, 2. Death of Aase, 3. Anitra's Dance, 4. In the Hall of the Mountain King; No.2 (Op.55, 1874–5, rev. 1891 and 1892): 1. Abduction of the Bride and Ingrid's Lament, 2. Arabian Dance, 3. Peer Gynt's Homecoming, 4. Solvejg's Song. Additional items sometimes perf. are Wedding March, Solvejg's Cradle Song, Prelude, Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter. Incidental mus. also comp. by Saeverud, 1947 (2 orch. suites pubd.). Also opera by Egk (Berlin 1938).

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