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類型专辑
年份1960
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Peer Gynt(Grieg)
Peer Gynt,Op.23, is theincidental musictoHenrik Ibsen's 1867play of the same name, written by the Norwegian composerEdvard Griegin 1875. It premiered along with the play on 24February 1876 inChristiania(now Oslo).
Grieg later created twosuitesfrom his Peer Gynt music. Some of the music from these suites has received coverage in popular culture; seeGrieg's music in popular culture.
Background
Edvard Grieg(1843-1907) was one of the definitive leaders of Scandinavian music and his influence was great. Although composing many short piano pieces and chamber works, the work Grieg did forHenrik Ibsenstood out. Originally composing 90 minutes of orchestral music for the play, he later went back and extracted certain sections for the suites. Peer Gynt's travels around the world and distant lands are represented by the instruments Grieg chooses to use.
When Ibsen asked Grieg to write music for the play in 1874, he reluctantly agreed. However, it was much more difficult for Grieg than he imagined. "Peer Gyntprogresses slowly," he wrote to a friend in August 1874, “and there is no possibility of having it finished by autumn. It is a terribly unmanageable subject.”
Letter from Henrik Ibsen to Grieg, January 23, 1874.
"The more he saturated his mind with the powerful poem, the more clearly he saw that he was the right man for a work of such witchery and so permeated with the Norwegian spirit,"his wifewrote of him and his music.[4]Even though the premiere was a "triumphant success", it prompted Grieg to complain bitterly that the Swedish management of the theatre had given him specifications as to the duration of each number and its order: "I was thus compelled to do patchwork... In no case had I opportunity to write as I wanted... Hence the brevity of the pieces," he said.
For many years, the suites were the only parts of the music that were available, as the original score was not published until 1908, one year after Grieg's death, byJohan Halvorsen.