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Peer Gynt, Op. 23, is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play Peer Gynt, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1875. It premiered along with the play on 24 February 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo).
Peer Gynt: Peer Gynt: Incidental music to the play by Henrik Ibsen: Piano: Op. 24: 1875–1876: Ballade i form av variasjoner over en norsk folkevise i g-moll: Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song in G minor: Vocal: Op. 25: 1876: Sex Digte af Ibsens
Peer Gynt (/ p ɪər ˈ ɡ ɪ n t /, Norwegian: [peːr ˈjʏnt,-ˈɡʏnt]) [a] is a five-act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its title character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert and ...
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (/ ɡ r iː ɡ / GREEG, Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑʈ ˈhɑ̀ːɡərʉp ˈɡrɪɡː]; 15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.
The piece is played as the title character Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters "Dovregubbens (the troll Mountain King's) hall". The scene's introduction continues: "There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown and sceptre, surrounded by his children and relatives.
Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (17 April 1897 – 27 March 1992) was a Norwegian composer. [1] He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Rondo Amoroso, and the Ballad of Revolt (Norwegian: Kjempeviseslåtten). Sæverud wrote nine symphonies and a large number of pieces for solo piano.
Ibsen added considerable material, such as Per Gynt travelling to Africa, crossing the Sahara and meeting with a Bedouin princess – 19th-century themes far beyond the scope of the original fairy-tale. The play appeared on stage in 1876, accompanied by incidental music by composer Edvard Grieg, who later prepared the Peer Gynt Suites.
In 1968 he earned a magisters of Musicology at the Universitetet i Oslo, with the thesis "En studie i Harald Sæverud's scenemusikk til Peer Gynt" (A study in Harald Sæverud's incidental music to Peer Gynt). Solås was active as an actor and composer at the «Teater Neuf» (Student theater), and «Teaterverkstedet» in Oslo 1950–70.