Many a TV advertisement (or, dare we say it, telephone on-hold service) has used the opening movement, Morning from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1 to create a musical mood. The fourth movement depicting ...

'I’ve done something about the Hall of the Old Man of Dovre,’ Grieg declared in a letter of 1864, ‘and I literally can’t bear to listen to it, it is so full of cow-turds and Norse-Norsehood!’ Indeed, ...

Symphonic Dances, Op. 64: IV. Andante - Allegro molto e Risoluto Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46. Incidental music to Peer Gynt by Ibsen: I. Morning Mood Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46. Incidental music ...

In 1888 Grieg arranged four pieces from his incidental music for Ibsens verse drama Peer Gynt to form an orchestral suite (Op. 46). This was followed in 1891 by a second orchestral suite (Op. 55) ...

There are few pieces of music that are more instantly recogniseable than ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. But everything in the two complete ...

Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...

Grieg's music drew on the Norwegian folk tunes of his homeland. He wrote many songs and piano miniatures. He was a leading composer of the Romantic era and brought the music of Norway to an ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra closes its two-year journey away from Powell Hall this weekend at Stifel Theatre with a fully staged production of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The project reunites ...

In the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, Peer wakes up in the Arabian desert, robbed and abandoned. He suffers from his mother's death, is seduced by an Arabian dance and, in the Hall of the Mountain ...