Edvard Grieg: Sheet music to download and print Piano music by Edvard Grieg to download and print: Lyric Pieces, Four Pieces, Poetic Tone-Pictures, Humoresques, Total pieces by Grieg: 84
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[quote author=frigo link=topic=27535.msg317281#msg317281 date=1194872695]
Can you tell me some of the best Grieg compositions for piano solo?
If you please, describe some characteristics like: are they too small or too long? Are they very hard to play for a regular-non-professional piano player?
And everything else you want to coment about the musics you post...
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The sonata in e minor is very diverse in character, is fairly short (for a Romantic period sonata), and is moderate in difficulty - perhaps advanced for the typical non-professional. It contains an alberti-like bass figure that spans a tenth which may cause difficulty for some. |
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Years ago, I used to be rather sniffy about Grieg's music, which fact says far more about my ignorance of some of it at the time than it can possibly tell about Grieg. I still find the piano concerto largely tiresome (even after having heard some pretty convincing performances of it), with its persistent 2- and 4- bar phrases glued together, but there's much finer Grieg than this. The Lyric Pieces, for example, owe more to Schumann than to Chopin, but they're none the worse for that and there's no end of characterful and skilful writing there, even though it's hardly destined to set the world alight. I actually wrote a set of piano variations on [i]Åse's Death[/i] from the [i]Peer Gynt[/i] music years ago (which, if you'll forgive the shameless advertising, gets its next performance in Esbjerg, Denmark at the hands of Jørgen Hald Nielsen on 13 November this year; it's been recorded by Donna Amato on Altarus - AIR-CD-9021 - along with some shorter works including Ronald Stevenson's transcription of Grieg's song [i]Den Bergtekne[/i]).
Best,
Alistair |
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