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

Works page 40 of 78

Grieg: Selected Songs for Low Voice

Mother Sorrow, Op. 15, No. 4

Four Humoresques, Op. 6

Albumblatt , Op.28, No. 4

Albumblatt , Op.28, No. 1

Lyric Pieces Book 4, op. 47, no. 2: Feuille d'Album

Lyric Pieces Book 9, op. 68, no. 2: Grossmutters Menuett

Lyric Pieces Book 7, op. 62, no. 2: Gratitude

In Ola Valley, In Ola Lake

Norwegian Folksongs and Dances Op.17 No.4, Niels Tallefjoren the proud fellow, piano

Norwegian Folksongs and Dances Op.17 No.7, Halling , piano

Song of Hope, Op. 26, No. 1

Poetic Tone-Picture in E Minor - No. 6 from "Six Poetic Tone-Pictures" Op. 3

Lyric Pieces Book 7, op. 62, no. 1: Sylph, piano

Lyric Pieces Book 7, op. 62, no. 4: Little Brook, piano

Norwegian Folksongs and Dances Op.17 No.23, Peasant song , piano

A King Ruled in the East

Lyric Pieces Book 2, op. 38, no. 1: Berceuse

Dance No. 4 in D Major

My Song Shall Be Thine, Sweet Spring-time

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 5 - Folkevise - Piano

The Old Song, Op. 4, No. 5

Norwegian Folksongs and Dances Op.17 No.15, The Last Sunday Evening, piano

With a Waterlily, Op. 25, No. 4

norwegian Melody Op. 12 No. 6 - Piano

Lyric Pieces Book 3, op. 43, no. 6: An den Frühling

Norwegian Folksongs and Dances Op.17 No.19, Hölje Dale, piano

Norwegian Folksongs and Dances Op.17 No.20, Halling ,piano

Norwegische Tänze Op.35 No. 4 - Primo

Waltz Op.12 No. 2 - Preface

Fairy-dance Op.12 No. 4 - Piano

Quartet No. 1 - Violin 1 - Violin 1

Aase's Death - Cornet 1/Trumpet 1

Anitra's Dance - Horn in F

Lyrical Pieces Op.38 No. 8 - Canon - Piano

Lyrical Pieces Op.47 No. 4 - Halling - Piano

Lyrical Pieces Op.71 No. 3 - Smaatrold - Piano

Sigurd Jorsalfar Op.22 No. 1 - Borghild's Dream - Bass

Peer Gynt Op.23 No.13 - Morgenstemning - Full Score

Sigurd Jorsalfar Op.22 No. 4 - Triumphal March - Organ/Piano

I Love You Op. 5 No. 3 - Accordion

Lyrical Pieces Op.43 No. 3 - In der Heimat - Piano

Peer Gynt Suite I Op.46 No. 1 - Morgenstemning - Piano

Norwegische Tänze Op.35 No. 2 - Primo

The Wounded Heart, No. 1 from "Two Elegiac Melodies", Op. 34 - Cello

Good Morning, Op. 21, No. 2

2 Elegische Melodien Op.34 No. 2 - Letzter Frühling - Piano 1

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Cornet 2/Trumpet 2