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 ...

A Norwegian conductor really gets it when it comes to Grieg. He understands the folk tales, he gets the folk rhythms, and the odd characters, like trolls, aren't odd to him. Arild Remmereit is the ...

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) wrote his five-act allegorical drama Peer Gynt in 1867 while living in Italy. It tells the story of the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant anti-hero.

In the Fogg Lecture Room yesterday afternoon Dr. Schofield gave a critical analysis of Ibsen's dramatic poem, "Peer Gynt," with an explanation of the themes which Grieg used in his "Peer Gynt Suite." ...

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 ...

What child, having once heard the gruff bassoons barking out the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, could ever forget the menacing march of the troll ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Ibsen - Norway's greatest playwright - commissioned an untried 24-year-old to provide some music for Ibsen's new play Peer Gynt. Grieg wrote brillant stuff and, at the same time, introduced Peer to ...

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 ...

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) ...