(String orchestra)
SKU: BA.BA08830
Composed by Edvard Grieg. Edited by Christoph Rinne-Schroeder. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Score. Opus 40. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA08830_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA08830).
ISBN 9790006567621. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Preface: Rinne-Schroeder, Christoph.
To celebrate the 200th birthday of the playwright Ludvig Holberg, a statue was erected in his honour in 1884. Edvard Grieg, who, like Holberg, was born in Bergen, was commissioned to write an open-air cantata for the ceremony. But he also refers to Holberg in his instrumental music. The result was a “powdered wig piece†(as Grieg wrote to his publisher) that hearkens back to Holberg’s era – a historicising suite of baroque dances for piano, ranging from an exhilarating prelude and several dance numbers to a Bachian “air†and an impetuous “rigaudonâ€.
Later Grieg arranged his “Suite in the Olden Style†for string orchestra. This version became one of his most popular compositions.
For our new scholarly-critical edition Christoph Rinne-Schroeder has meticulously examined the original print and compared it with previously neglected performance material annotated by Grieg himself.
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