Product Description
Peer Gynt Suite Opus 55 for Easy Piano
Arranged
for Novice Pianists by SilverTonalities!
Colored Noteheads for Quick and Accurate Reading!
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Ingrids
Lament, the Abduction of the Bride
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Arabian Dance,
the Salute to Peer
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Peer Gynts
Return Home, the Home Coming
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Solvejgs Song,
the Heroine
Griegs
Peer Gynt Suite was written as Incidental Music in 1875 to a play of the same
name by a Norwegian playright Henrik Isben, which was based on Norse Fairy
Tales
The
plot concerns a young Norwegian "Peer Gynt" who dreams of becoming Emperor of
the World. His adventures include
abducting a bride to be during her wedding, later abandoning her for another
woman and being tormented and chased by gnomes and trolls. He travels to
Morocco where he poses as a "Prophet", where is double crossed by an Arabian
Princess. Finally, he returns to Norway to the land of the Trolls and the Old
Man of Dovre, whose daughter and Kingdom he wants for himself
In
1888 and 1891, Grieg combined eight pieces into two Suites with four pieces
each, the first Suite being Opus 46
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