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 42 of 78

Departed, Op. 25, No. 5

The Young Man

Twenty-five Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op.17

The Odalisk

The First Meeting, Op. 21, No. 1

One Summer Night, Op. 26, No. 2

Lyrical Pieces Op.54 No. 3 - Troldtog - Piano

Peer Gynt Suite I Op.46 No. 2 - Aases Doed - Piano

Norwegische Tänze Op.35 No. 2 - Secondo

Norwegische Tänze Op.35 No. 4 - Secondo

Peer Gynt Suite II Op.55 No. 1 - Ingrids Klage - Piano

Fairy-dance Op.12 No. 4 - Preface

norwegian Melody Op. 12 No. 6 - Preface

National Song Op.12 No. 8 - Preface

Folk Melody Op.38 No. 2 - Preface

Halling Op.38 No. 4 - Preface

Elegy Op.38 No. 6 - Preface

Canon Op.38 No. 8 - Preface

Solitary Traveller Op.43 No. 2 - Preface

Little Bird Op.43 No. 4 - Preface

Sarabande - Score

Hytten Op.18 No. 7 - Score and Parts

Swingin' in the Halls of the Mountain King - Clarinet 1

My Land. 4. Folksong

My Land. 10. In My Native Land

Aase's Death - Cornet 2/Trumpet 2

Anitra's Dance - Euphonium

Lyrical Pieces Op.62 No. 6 - Hjemad - Piano

Peer Gynt Op.23 No.23 - Solvejgs vuggesang - Piano

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 6 - Norsk - Piano

Last Spring, No. 2 from "Two Elegiac Melodies", Op. 34 - Cello

Preludes: Andante

Valse Melancolique

No.1 In C-sharp Minor

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Trombone

Peer Gynt Suite no. 1: Anitra's Dance

No.1 In D Minor

2 Elegische Melodien Op.34 No. 1 - Herzwunden - Piano 1

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

Lyrical Pieces Op.47 No. 3 - Melodie - Accordion

Morning - Violin 3

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

Elegy [Jacob, Gordon]

[Unknown]

To the spring Op.43 No. 6 - Preface

8 Lyric Pieces Op.12:

Scherzo [Goldschmidt, Berthold]

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