Composer

Edvard Grieg

1843–1907

3,733 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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Seven Fugues for Piano

Slatter Op. 72 - Norwegian Peasant Dances

To brune

Piano Concerto-First Movement

Liden Kirsten/Margarethlein/Little Kirsten, Op. 60/1

23 Little Piano Pieces

Allegretto

Med en vandlilje/Mit einer Wasserlilie/With a Water-lily, Op. 25/4

Borte!/Geschieden!/Departed!, Op. 25/5

Der skreg en Fugl/Ein Vogel schrie/A Bird Cried Out, Op. 60/4

With a Primrose

Jaegersang

Old Mother

The Last Spring

Dedication [Op. 13, No. 1] Additional credits Ernst Von Dohnányi

Spillemaend/Spielmannslied/Fiddlers, Op. 25/1

Stambogsrim/Stammbuchsreim/Album Lines, Op. 25/3

En fuglevise/Ein Vogellied/A Bird-song, Op. 25/6

Den Be rgtekene/Der Bergentruckte/The Mountain Thrall, Op. 32

Zur Rosenzeit/ I Rosentiden/The time of Roses, Op. 48/5

Ein Traum/En Drom/ A Dream, Op. 48/6

Til Norge/An das Vaterland/To the Motherland, Op. 58/2

Moderen synger/Die Mutter singt/The Mother's Lament, Op. 60/2

Mens jeg venter/Im Kahne/On the Water, Op. 60/3

In the homeland, op. 43 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Sonata in E min

Dances of the Mountain King's Daughter Op. 55 No. 5

Larvikspolka

Canon a 4 voci

3 Piano Pieces

Agitato

In Der Halle Des Bergkonigs

Ave maris stella Performed by Edvard Grieg

2. The Primrose

In The Hall Of The Mountain King Performed by Edvard Grieg

Prinsessen/Die Prinzessin/The Princess

Eroticism, op. 43 Performed by Edvard Grieg

To the spring, op. 43 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Shepered boy, op. 54 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Norwegian peasant march, op. 54 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Procession of the gnoms, op. 54 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Notturno, op. 54 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Scherzo, op. 54 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Peals of bells, op. 54 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Slow Movement Performed by Edvard Grieg

Notturno Op.54 No.4 Performed by Edvard Grieg

Album-Leaf Performed by Edvard Grieg

First Movement From Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op.