In 1888 Grieg arranged four pieces from his incidental music for Ibsens verse drama Peer Gynt to form an orchestral suite (Op. 46). This was followed in 1891 by a second orchestral suite (Op. 55) ...

There are few pieces of music that are more instantly recogniseable than ‘Morning Mood’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. But everything in the two complete ...

Playwright Henrik Ibsen pressured composer Edvard Grieg to write incidental music for his play, "Peer Gynt," but Grieg thought the play was a totally unmusical subject. Grieg's music turned out to be ...