peer gynt

     

Go "trolling" with this Edvard Grieg suite that shares its name with an Ibsen work

Trivia about peer gynt

  • This 1867 Edvard Grieg work was first published as a piano duet but later divided into 2 suites
  • The title character of this Ibsen play is based on a Norwegian folk hero
  • In 1874 Ibsen asked Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for this play
  • A summer festival at Vinstra honors this Ibsen & Grieg character based on folklore
  • In a ballet about this Norwegian folk hero, he insults the Mountain King's daughter & must descend quickly

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