Grieg's "Lyric Pieces" are among the most popular piano pieces ever written. Works such as "Papillon", "Fairy-Dance" and "To Spring" have become 'cult pieces' in the repertoire of domestic music-making. It is a delightful challenge for the modern performer to realize the delicate musical balance between a simple folk tradition and the Romantic urge of expressiveness.
SKU: HL.49041721
ISBN 9783254083753. German.
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a celebrated figure in the European music scene in his own lifetime. Warmly welcomed and recommended by Liszt and highly esteemed by Brahms and Tchaikovsky, he took the concert halls by storm with his compositions, influenced by the late-Romantic spirit and advancing as far as musical Impressionism, such the Piano Concerto, the music of Ibsen's Peer Gynt and numerous songs. His Lyrical Pieces delighted all piano-playing music lovers.Grieg had studied at the Leipzig Conservatoire and once called himself 'musically speaking, entirely German'. After his return to his home country, he listened with rapt attention to the songs and dances of the Norwegian farmers and developed his characteristic style on the basis of this music. To him, that was not only a musical, but also a political issue. Grieg, a master of poetry in music, was both an active democrat and a patriot, his ideals being justice and humanity.
SKU: BR.EB-8832
ISBN 9790004183960. 12 x 9 inches.
The Romantic character piece for piano is crucial to a group of works in Edvard Grieg's complete oeuvre. At the request of his publisher, the composer filled an entire 10 volumes with Lyric Pieces, a total of 66 individual works. The titles and characters of many pieces reflect the influence of the musical and literary folklore of Grieg's Norwegian homeland. The experienced church musician Klaus Uwe Ludwig made a selection of the most appropriate pieces from the collection and adapted these for organ. - Cross section of the whole subject range of the Lyric Pieces - Welcome enhancement to the Romantic organ repertoire - Arrangements based on the Edvard Grieg complete edition guarantee a reliable music textNordic organ romantic.
