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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Craddle Song

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 2 - Vals - Piano

Berceuse Op.38 No. 1 - Piano

Melody Op.38 No. 3 - Piano

Leaping Dance Op.38 No. 5 - Piano

Waltz Op.38 No. 7 - Piano

Rosenknoppen Op.18 No. 8 - Score

Lyric Pieces Book 5, op. 54, no. 1: Shepherd's Boy, piano

Lyric Pieces Book 8, op. 65, no. 5: Ballade

Lyric Pieces Book 10, op. 71, no. 7: Remembrances

Lyric Pieces Book 4, op. 47, no. 7: Elegy

Lyric Pieces Book 2, op. 38, no. 6: Elegy

Lyric Pieces Book 3, op. 43, no. 2: Einsamer Wanderer

Lyric Pieces Book 9, op. 68, no. 6: Melancholy Waltz

In My Native Country Op.43 No. 3 - Piano

My Land. 6. Spring Dance

My Land. 12. March of the Dwarfs

Wedding-day at Troldhaugen - Violin 1 - Violin 1

Old Mother, The

Princess, The

Norwegische Tänze Op.35 No. 1 - Primo

Norwegische Tänze Op.35 No. 3 - Primo

Peer Gynt Suite Op.55 No. 3 - Peer Gynts Hjemfart - Piano

Arietta Op.12 No. 1 - Preface

Watchman's Song Op.12 No. 3 - Preface

Folk Tune Op.12 No. 5 - Piano

Album-leaf Op.12 No. 7 - Piano

Way of the World, The

Peer Gynt Suite I Op.46 No. 4 - In the hall of the mountain-king - Piano

A Little Friend

French Serenade - Score

In the Swing of the Mountain King - Oboe

Swingin' in the Halls of the Mountain King - Clarinet 3

My Land. 1. Waltz

Erotic Poem Op.43 No. 5 - Piano

Two Norwegian Dances - Oboe

Peer Gynt Suite no. 1: In the Hall of the Mountain King

Three Melodies - Horn in F

Anitra's Dance from "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46" - Score

Anitra's Dance from "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46" - Score and Parts

Holberg Suite, op. 40, no. 2: Sarabande

Norwegian Dances for Orchestra, op. 35, no. 1 in D minor

Butterfly Op.43 No. 1 - Piano

Solveig's Song, from Six Song Transcriptions, Op. 52, no. 4

Two Elegiac Melodies, op. 34, no. 1: Herzwunden

Morning - Score and Parts

Morning - Cello

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - Violin 3