Composer

Edvard Grieg

1843–1907

2,693 works in the index

Era: Romantic
Nationality: Norway
Born in: Bergen

Grieg wrote almost nothing large and a great deal that is small and very good, which makes him unusually well suited to amateur players. The Lyric Pieces — ten volumes of short piano pieces written across his whole career — are the core of it.

Those pieces span a genuinely wide difficulty range, from things playable within two or three years of starting to concert repertoire, and they are published both complete and in selections. The Peer Gynt music exists in every arrangement imaginable, and the Piano Concerto is one of the most-played in the repertoire.

His harmonic language draws on Norwegian folk music, which is why the pieces sound distinctive without being difficult — a rare combination and the reason they have stayed in print for well over a century.

Catalogue

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In Autumn, Op.11

Peer Gynt Suite No.2 Op.55

March Of The Dwarfs

Melancholy, Op. 47, No. 5

Peace Of Woods, Op. 71, No.4

French Serenade, Op. 62, No. 3

Melancholy, Op. 65, No. 3

Scherzo, Op. 54, No. 5

Elves' Dance, Op. 12, No. 4

Album Leaf, Op. 47, No. 2

Canon, Op.38

Lonely Wanderer, Op.43

French Serenade, Op.62

"Waltz in A, Op. 12 No. 2"

Arietta, Op. 12, No. 1, From Lyric Pieces, Book 1

1. Ingrid's Lament

Guds Son har gjort mig fri, Op. 74

Folk-Song, Op.38 No.2

Klokkeklang (Glockengelaut), op. 54 Nr. 6

1. In My Native Country, Op. 43/3

Peer Gynt suite I

Margaret's Cradle Song

The First Primrose

To brune Ojne (Zwei braune Augen - Two Brown Eyes)

Illusion, Op. 57, No. 3

Zug Der Zwerge Op. 54 No. 3

Scherzo, Op.54

Remembrances, Op.71

It Is the Greatest Folly, Op. 66, No. 2

Lyric Pieces, Book VI - Illusion, Op. 57, No. 3

Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7

Grieg: Album Leaf

Solitary Traveller Op 43 #2

"Anitra's Dance (from 'Peer Gynt') (Festival for Flute, Book 1)"

Albumblatt op. 12 Nr. 7 -fur Klavier- Performed by Edvard Grieg

Pictures from Life in the Country Op. 19

Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt

Mountaineer's Song

1. So lokka me over den Myra , Op. 22/12

Solitary Wanderer [Op. 43, No. 2]

Elegy [Op. 38, No. 4]

Concerto Op.16 Theme

Seven Fugues for Piano

Grieg: Lyrics Pieces, Op. 12

Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 16

3 Orchestral Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar Op.56

Poetic Tone-Pictures Op.3

Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op.22