Instrumentation : 2Pf/4h Edition in accordance with Edvard Grieg: Complete Works (volume 7) edited by the Edvard Grieg Committee, Oslo

Grieg's Holberg Suite takes up a special position in the composer's overall work: If his previous works had been characterized primarily by a close connection with his Nordic home country he now trod completely new paths by falling back on Baroque forms. This work is juxtaposed by the orchestral suite 'Sigurd Jorsalfar' the content of which could hardly be more Norwegian. Grieg wrote the music of the textual piece of the same name which is based on a saga of two Norwegian kings who were brothers.

Instrumentation : 2Pf/4h Edition in accordance with Edvard Grieg: Complete Works (volume 7) edited by the Edvard Grieg Committee, Oslo

from Edvard Grieg: Complete Works, edited by the Edvard Grieg Committee, Oslo / Classique / Partition /

VÃ¥ren (Last Spring; Op.32 No.2) was the second in a collection of twelve songs originally for solo Voice and Piano published in 1881. It takes its lyrics from a poem by the Norwegian poet Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818-1870). Is has been arranged for SSAA Female Voices by Emil Nielsen.Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was born in Bergen Norway and studied Piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became interested in Norwegian folksong and began to employ it as a source of musical material and inspiration in his compositions. He was soon established as a major composer. Despite his success Grieg was of a retiring disposition and spentmost of his time at his house in Troldhaugen near Bergen avoiding visitors and shunning public acclaim.

Grieg's only piano Sonata the Sonata in E minor Op.7 is a beautiful and sincere work strongly echoing the music and harmonies of Norwegian folk-music from which the composer was strongly influenced. Availablehere is a highly authoritative Urtext edition of Grieg's Sonata in E minor Op.7 as edited by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann and fingered by Einar Steen-Nokleberg.

Par ANDERSEN / GRIEG / NOVI. Le plus beau des contes d'Andersen ! Une histoire d'amour magnifique, cruelle et lumineuse, mariée à  la musique intemporelle de Grieg interprétée par l'ensemble Agora (quintette à  vent et harpe). L'interprétation de Natalie Dessay en récitante mi-ange, mi-sorciêre est inoubliable. Un conte musical délicieusement poignant ! / / Livre / Livres

Mark Freeh’s arrangement of five of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are taken from the orchestral adaptations from the composer himself. Grieg wrote 66 piano miniatures all referred to as lyric pieces. Brass Band Grade 5: 1st Section Duration: 12 minutes

'Here we have a good selection of music....giving a good taster of Grieg's style.' Music Teacher Magazine.Grade: 4 - 6.