Peer Gynt Suites
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Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 and Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, Op. 55 are two orchestral suites of extracted incidental music by romantic composer Edvard Grieg for Peer Gynt, a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Written in 1875, and premiered along with the play on February 24, 1876, the score to the play had a total of twenty-three movements, and later, in 1888 and 1891, Grieg extracted eight movements to make two four-movement suites.
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[edit] Suite No. 1, Op. 46
- Morgenstemning (Morning Mood)
- Åses død (Aase's Death)
- Anitras Dans (Anitra's Dance)
- I Dovregubbens hall (In the Hall of the Mountain King)
[edit] Suite No. 2, Op. 55
- Bruderovet. Ingrids klage. (The Abduction of the Bride. Ingrid's Lament)
- Arabisk Dans (Arabian Dance)
- Peer Gynts hjemfart (Stormful aften på havet) (Peer Gynt's Homecoming (Stormy Evening on the Sea))
- Solveigs Sang (Solveig's, or Solvejg's Song)
[edit] Adaptations
Duke Ellington recorded a jazz version with his orchestra in 1960.
The Electric Light Orchestra recorded a version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" for their 1973 album On the Third Day. It mixed the classical elements of the composition with contemporary rock instrumentation and quickly became one of their live features.
In 1974, former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman adapted, "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" for his album, "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth".
In 1974 the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote a short piano piece Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra “La morte d’Åse” da Grieg.
The duo Erasure included an electronic version on their album The Circus.
Extracts of Aase's Death are played in The Simpsons Episode Coming to Homerica, while the Norwegian workers are leaving their town.
The heavy metal group Apocalyptica, who play heavy metal using four cellos, recorded a highly modified version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in their album Cult (2000).
In 2001 a group of electronica music called "Operatica" made a new version of the popular song from Peer Gynt, "Solveig's Song", which is rearranged and performed in English.
The In the Hall of the Mountain King melody was used in the computer game Manic Miner. It was also used in the made-for-television film The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957), as the tune that the Piper plays when luring the rats out of the village and into the river. Part of Suite No. 1 'Morning' was also used.
Years earlier, the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King was eerily used in Fritz Lang's classic suspense thriller M (1931), as the tune that the child murderer (played by Peter Lorre) whistles constantly.
In the year 2009 the metal band Epica released a recording of In the Hall of the Mountain King on their live CD The Classical Conspiracy.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- www.kreusch-sheet-music.net - Free Score of the complete work
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