Biography
The defining voice of Norwegian musical nationalism, Grieg composed a single Piano Concerto in A minor (1868) that became one of the most beloved in the repertoire, as well as ten books of Lyric Pieces for piano. His harmonic language drew on Norwegian folk scales and modal inflections that influenced Debussy and the Impressionists. He championed Nordic musical identity at a time when German Romanticism dominated European concert life.
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Works (136)
From Holberg's Time (Holberg Suite), Op. 40
- From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: I. Præludium I. Præludium Key G major Difficulty
- From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: II. Sarabande II. Sarabande Key G minor Difficulty
- From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: III. Gavotte III. Gavotte Key G major Difficulty
- From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: IV. Air IV. Air Key G major Difficulty
- From Holberg's Time, Op. 40: V. Rigaudon V. Rigaudon Key G major Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 (Book 1)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 1 – Arietta No. 1 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 2 – Waltz No. 2 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 3 – Watchman's Song No. 3 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 4 – Fairy Dance No. 4 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 5 – Folk Song No. 5 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 6 – Norwegian Melody No. 6 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 7 – Album Leaf No. 7 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 No. 8 – National Song No. 8 Key E major Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 (Book 2)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 1 – Berceuse No. 1 Key G major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 2 – Folk Song No. 2 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 3 – Melodie No. 3 Key A major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 4 – Halling No. 4 Key D major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 5 – Springdans No. 5 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 6 – Elegy No. 6 Key B minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 7 – Waltz No. 7 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 No. 8 – Canon No. 8 Key A minor Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 (Book 3)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 1 – Butterfly No. 1 Key G major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 2 – Solitary Traveller No. 2 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 3 – In My Native Country No. 3 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 4 – Little Bird No. 4 Key B minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 5 – Erotik No. 5 Key C major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 6 – To Spring No. 6 Key A major Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 (Book 4)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 1 – Valse-Impromptu No. 1 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 2 – Album Leaf No. 2 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 3 – Melodie No. 3 Key B minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 4 – Halling No. 4 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 5 – Melancholy No. 5 Key B minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 6 – Springdans No. 6 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 47 No. 7 – Elegy No. 7 Key A minor Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 (Book 5)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No. 1 – Shepherd Boy No. 1 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No. 2 – Norwegian March No. 2 Key A major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No. 3 – March of the Dwarfs No. 3 Key B minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No. 4 – Notturno No. 4 Key C major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No. 5 – Scherzo No. 5 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 No. 6 – Bell Ringing No. 6 Key E minor Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 (Book 6)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 No. 1 – Vanished Days No. 1 Key F minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 No. 2 – Gade No. 2 Key G major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 No. 3 – Illusion No. 3 Key F major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 No. 4 – Secret No. 4 Key A major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 No. 5 – She Dances No. 5 Key B major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 57 No. 6 – Homesickness No. 6 Key E minor Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 (Book 7)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 No. 1 – Sylph No. 1 Key D major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 No. 2 – Gratitude No. 2 Key G major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 No. 3 – French Serenade No. 3 Key C major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 No. 4 – Brooklet No. 4 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 No. 5 – Phantom No. 5 Key B minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 No. 6 – Homeward No. 6 Key E major Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 (Book 8)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 No. 1 – From Early Years No. 1 Key F major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 No. 2 – Peasant's Song No. 2 Key F major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 No. 3 – Melancholy No. 3 Key D♭ major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 No. 4 – Salon No. 4 Key A♭ major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 No. 5 – In Ballad Style No. 5 Key G minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 No. 6 – Wedding Day at Troldhaugen No. 6 Key A major Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 (Book 9)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 1 – Sailor's Song No. 1 Key G minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 2 – Grandmother's Minuet No. 2 Key G minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 3 – At Your Feet No. 3 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 4 – Evening in the Mountains No. 4 Key E minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 5 – At the Cradle No. 5 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 68 No. 6 – Valse Mélancolique No. 6 Key C♯ minor Difficulty
Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 (Book 10)
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 1 – Once Upon a Time No. 1 Key F major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 2 – Summer Evening No. 2 Key E major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 3 – Puck No. 3 Key A minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 4 – Peace of the Woods No. 4 Key D major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 5 – Halling No. 5 Key A major Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 6 – Gone No. 6 Key G minor Difficulty
- Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 No. 7 – Remembrances No. 7 Key E major Difficulty
Miscellaneous Piano Works
- Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 No. 1 Key E minor Difficulty
- Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 No. 2 Key E major Difficulty
- Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 No. 3 Key A minor Difficulty
- Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 No. 4 Key D major Difficulty
- Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 No. 5 Key C major Difficulty
- Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3 No. 6 Key E major Difficulty
- Humoresques, Op. 6 No. 1 Humoresque, Op. 6 No. 1 Key E major Difficulty
- Humoresques, Op. 6 No. 2 Humoresque, Op. 6 No. 2 Key C major Difficulty
- Humoresques, Op. 6 No. 3 Humoresque, Op. 6 No. 3 Key G major Difficulty
- Humoresques, Op. 6 No. 4 Humoresque, Op. 6 No. 4 Key E major Difficulty
- Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song, Op. 24 Ballade in G minor, Op. 24 Key G minor Difficulty
Moods, Op. 73
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 1 – Resignation No. 1 Key F major Difficulty
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 2 – Scherzo-Impromptu No. 2 Key E major Difficulty
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 3 – A Rocking Cradle No. 3 Key C major Difficulty
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 4 – Night Ride No. 4 Key E minor Difficulty
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 5 – Stubbornness No. 5 Key E major Difficulty
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 6 – The Students' Serenade No. 6 Key A minor Difficulty
- Moods, Op. 73 No. 7 – Mountaineer's Song No. 7 Key A major Difficulty
Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 1 – Killingdans No. 1 Key A major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 2 – It is the greatest foolishness No. 2 Key G major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 3 – A King Ruled in the East No. 3 Key F major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 4 – The Siri Dale Song No. 4 Key D minor Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 5 – It was in my youth No. 5 Key A minor Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 6 – Cow Call and Lullaby No. 6 Key E major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 7 – Lullaby No. 7 Key A major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 8 – Sailors' Song No. 8 Key A minor Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 9 – He sank so pale No. 9 Key E minor Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 10 – Tomorrow you shall marry her No. 10 Key A major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 11 – There stood two girls No. 11 Key G major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 12 – Ranveig No. 12 Key E minor Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 13 – A little grey man No. 13 Key A major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 14 – In Ola valley No. 14 Key D major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 15 – Lullaby No. 15 Key E major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 16 – Little Astrid No. 16 Key A major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 17 – Lullaby No. 17 Key A major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 18 – I wander deep in thought No. 18 Key E major Difficulty
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 66 No. 19 – Gjendine's Lullaby No. 19 Key A major Difficulty
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (piano arrangement)
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 No. 1 – Morning Mood (piano arr.) No. 1 – Morning Mood Key E major Difficulty
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 No. 2 – Åse's Death (piano arr.) No. 2 – Åse's Death Key B minor Difficulty
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 No. 3 – Anitra's Dance (piano arr.) No. 3 – Anitra's Dance Key A minor Difficulty
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 No. 4 – In the Hall of the Mountain King (piano arr.) No. 4 – In the Hall of the Mountain King Key B minor Difficulty
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
- Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato I. Allegro molto moderato Key A minor Difficulty
- Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: II. Adagio II. Adagio Key D♭ major Difficulty
- Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato Key A minor Difficulty
Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7
- Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7: I. Allegro moderato I. Allegro moderato Key E minor Difficulty
- Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7: II. Andante molto II. Andante molto Key E major Difficulty
- Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7: III. Alla Menuetto III. Alla Menuetto Key E major Difficulty
- Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7: IV. Finale – Molto allegro IV. Finale – Molto allegro Key E minor Difficulty
Slåtter (Norwegian Peasant Dances), Op. 72
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 1 – Gibøen's Bridal March No. 1 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 2 – Jon Vestafe's Springdans No. 2 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 3 – Bridal March from Telemark No. 3 Key G major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 4 – Hailing Dance No. 4 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 5 – Peasant Dance No. 5 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 6 – Gangar from the Fairy Hill No. 6 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 7 – Røtnams-Knut's Halling No. 7 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 8 – Bridal March No. 8 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 9 – Nils Rekve's Halling No. 9 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 10 – Knut Luråsen's Halling I No. 10 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 11 – Knut Luråsen's Halling II No. 11 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 12 – Springdans No. 12 Key G major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 13 – Haavar Gibøen's Springdans No. 13 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 14 – Two Hallingar No. 14 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 15 – The Swain No. 15 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 16 – Springdans from Jølster No. 16 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 17 – Kivlemøyene No. 17 Key A major Difficulty