Composer

Edvard Grieg

1843–1907

3,721 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 60 of 78

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46

Lyrical Pieces Op.43 No. 2 - Einsamer Wanderer

Lyrical Pieces Op.43 No. 1 - Schmetterling

Lyrical Pieces Op.38 No. 2 - Volksweise

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 8 - Faedrelandssang

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 7 - Stambogsblad

Lyrical Pieces Op.43 No. 5 - Erotik

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 5 - Folkevise

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 4 - Elverdans

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 1 - Arietta

Lyrical Pieces Op.12 No. 2 - Vals

Lyric Pieces Book IX, Op. 68

Swan, The, Op. 25, No. 2

String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27

Lyric Pieces Book III, op. 43

Lyric Pieces Book I, Op. 12

Four Album Leaves, Op. 28

Lyric Pieces Book X, Op. 71

Lyric Pieces Book VIII, op. 65

Lyric Pieces Book VII, Op. 62

Lyric Pieces Book VI, Op. 57

Lyric Pieces Book V, Op. 54

Lyric Pieces Book IV, Op. 47

Lyric Pieces Book II, Op. 38

Lyrical Pieces Op.38 No. 1 - Berceuse

Lyrical Pieces Op.38 No. 8 - Canon

Song of Hope, Op. 26, No. 1

Humility, Op. 18, No. 6

The First Meeting, Op. 21, No. 1

Four Piano Pieces, Op. 1

Four Humoresques, Op. 6

Twenty-five Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op.17

Two Brown Eyes, Op. 5, No. 1

Melodies of the Heart, Op. 5

Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63

My Thoughts Are As the Mighty Hills, Op. 5, No. 4

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

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

Four Norwegian Dances, Op. 35

Strolling Minstrel's Song, Op. 25, No. 1

Wandering in the Woods, Op. 18, No. 1

Departed, Op. 25, No. 5

19 previously unprinted Norwegian Folksongs, Op. 66

With a Waterlily, Op. 25, No. 4

Album-Rhyme, Op. 25, No. 3

With a Violet, Op. 26, No. 4

One Summer Night, Op. 26, No. 2

Mother Sorrow, Op. 15, No. 4