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The Incidental music toPeer Gynt, Op. 23, was written in 1875 by Edvard Grieg for Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name. It premiered along with the play on 24 February 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo).
Later, in 1888 and 1891, Grieg extracted eight movements to make two four-movement suites:
- Suite No. 1, Op. 46 and
- Suite No. 2, Op. 55.
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Original score, Op. 23
For many years, the suites were the only parts of the music that were available, as the original score was not published before 1908, one year after Grieg's death, by Johan Halvorsen.[1]
Various recordings have been made of this music. Some recordings that claim to contain the complete incidental music have 33 selections[2], however, that conducted by Ola Kristian Ruud is split into 49 items.[3] However, both recordings include several verses from the drama, read by actors.
The original score contains 26 movements:[1] Movements in bold means they are extracted by Grieg into two suites.
- Act I
- Prelude - At the Wedding (I Bryllupsgården)
- Halling
- Springar
- Act II
- Prelude - The Abduction of the Bride/Peer and Ingrid (Bruderovet/Ingrids klage)
- Peer Gynt and the Herd-Girls (Peer Gynt og Sæterjentene)
- Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green (Peer Gynt og den grønnkledde)
- Great folk may be known by the mounts... (På ridestellet skal storfolk kjennes)
- In the Hall of the Mountain King (I Dovregubbens hall)
- Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter (Dans av Dovregubbens datter)
- Peer Gynt hunted by the trolls (Peer Gynt jages av troll)
- Peer Gynt and the Boyg (Peer Gynt og Bøygen)
- Act III
- The Death of Åse - Prelude and 4th scene (Åses død, forspill til akt III og i 4. scene)
- Act IV
- Prelude - Morning Mood (Morgenstemning)
- The Thief and the Receiver (Tyven og heleren)
- Arabian Dance (Arabisk dans)
- Anitra's Dance (Anitras dans)
- Peer Gynt's Serenade (Peer Gynts serenade)
- Peer Gynt and Anitra (Peer og Anitra)
- Solveig's Song (Solveigs sang)
- Peer Gynt at the Statue of Memnon (Peer Gynt ved Memnonstøtten)
- Act V
- Prelude - Peer Gynt's Homecoming. Stormy Evening on the Sea (Peer Gynts hjemfart. Stormfull aften ved kysten)
- Shipwreck (Skipsforliset)
- Solveig sings in the hut (Solveig synger i hytten)
- Night Scene (Nattscene)
- Whitsun Hymn (Pinsesalme)
- Solveig's Cradle Song (Solveigs vuggevise)
Suite No. 1, Op. 46
- Morning Mood (Morgenstemning)
- Aase's Death (Åses død)
- Anitra's Dance (Anitras dans)
- In the Hall of the Mountain King (I Dovregubbens hall)
Suite No. 2, Op. 55
- The Abduction of the Bride. Ingrid's Lament (Bruderovet. Ingrids klage)
- Arabian Dance (Arabisk Dans)
- Peer Gynt's Homecoming (Stormy Evening on the Sea) (Peer Gynts hjemfart (Stormful aften på havet))
- Solveig's Song (Solveigs Sang)hear performance
Adaptations
'In the Hall of the Mountain King'
- The melody of 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' was used in Fritz Lang's early classic suspense thriller M (1931), as the tune that the child murderer (played by Peter Lorre) whistles constantly.
- It was 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.
- Duke Ellington recorded a jazz version with his orchestra in 1960.
- Progressive rock band Egg used the melody in their Symphony No. 2 on their first album in 1970.
- The Electric Light Orchestra recorded a version of the tune 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 the melody for his album Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
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- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow recorded the piece with Ronnie James Dio on vocals on their 1995 'Stranger in us all' - album.
- The duo Erasure included an electronic version on their album The Circus (1987).
- 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).
- The melody was used in the computer game Manic Miner.
- In 2009 the metal band Epica released a recording of 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' on their live CD The Classical Conspiracy.
- The tune has become the unofficial theme tune for England's Alton Towers theme park on numerous advertisements.
- 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' was used in to opening sequence of the 2009 film 'Dead Snow'.
'The Death of Åse'
- The tune was used as the melody for A Mother's Lament, sung by a grieving mother searching for her child, who does not know that the Piper has led away the children in the 1957 made-for-TV musical The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Lyrics were by Hal Stanley and Irving Taylor; the song was sung by Kay Starr.
- In 1974 the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote a short piano piece Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra 'La morte d'Åse' da Grieg.
- Extracts from 'Aase's Death' are played in The Simpsons episode 'Coming to Homerica', while the Norwegian workers are leaving their town.
- In 1974, the Dutch progressive rock band Trace adapted this peace of music and renamed it 'Death of Ace'.
'Solveig's Song'
- The melody is sung (with new lyrics) by Van Johnson in the 1957 film The Pied Piper of Hamelin, as the Piper muses over how greedy the Mayor and his Councilors are.
- 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 song 'Forever', in the melodic-power metal band Kamelot's fifth album Karma, is loosely based on 'Solveig's Song'
- Folk metal band Týr wrote a song called 'Valkryjan' which used the melody for the intro and solo of the song.
- Nordic Folk metal band Midnattsol's final track on their album Where Twilight Dwells, Tapt av håp, is based upon 'Solveig's Song'
- Los Angeles based group Sweetbox issued in 2001 an album named Classified (Sweetbox album). On that album, the song 'Trying To Be Me' is an adaptation of Solveig's Song.
- Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann included an arrangement of the Grieg composition on his 1997 release, Classical (album).
'Anitra's Dance'
- The piece was converted into a song, 'Feats of the Piper', in the 1957 made-for-TV film The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Sung by Van Johnson (as the Piper) and the townspeople, in a scene in which he tries to convince them of his magic abilities.
'Morning Mood'
The melody was adapted very loosely into an instrumental waltz in The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957), played when the townspeople are celebrating the disappearance of the rats from Hamelin.
'Arabian Dance'
In the 1957 The Pied Piper of Hamelin, this piece became 'The Emissary's Song', sung by the townspeople to welcome the arrival of the King's Emissary (Jim Backus).
See also
References
- ^ ab Edvard Grieg - Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis, ed. by Dan Fog, Kirsti Grinde and Øyvind Norheim. Henry Litolffs Verlag Frankfurt/Main Leipzig London New York 2008
- ^Classics Online
- ^BIS Records
External links
- www.kreusch-sheet-music.net - Free Score of the complete work