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Collection of short piano pieces by Edvard Grieg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lyric Pieces (Norwegian: Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 (Op. 12) to 1901 (Op. 71). The collection includes several of his best known pieces, such as Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen), To Spring (Til våren), March of the Trolls (Trolltog), and Butterfly (Sommerfugl).
The theme of the first piece in the set, Arietta, was one of the composer's favorite melodies. He used it to complete the cycle in his last lyric piece, Remembrances (Efterklang) — this time as a waltz.
The first complete recording of the Lyric Pieces was recorded and released in the Soviet Union by Alexander Goldenweiser in the 1950s. In 2002, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes recorded a CD with 24 of the lyric pieces on Grieg's own 1892 Steinway grand piano at Troldhaugen, the composer's residence. Among other notable pianists to have made recordings of the collection are Daniel Gortler, Håkon Austbø, Aldo Ciccolini, Andrei Gavrilov, Walter Gieseking, Emil Gilels, Stephen Hough, Eva Knardahl, Juhani Lagerspetz, Daniel Levy, Irina Mejoueva, Isabel Mourão, Gerhard Oppitz, Javier Perianes, Sviatoslav Richter and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. A few recordings and piano rolls of Grieg himself performing also exist, and they have been published by the Norwegian record label Simax.
Four of the six pieces from Book V, Op. 54, were orchestrated under the title of Lyric Suite. Both Grieg and Anton Seidl had a hand in the orchestrations. Grieg also orchestrated two of the pieces from Book IX, Op. 68.
Even though it was published in several volumes, some publishers, such as Edition Peters, have numbered the pieces as a whole, thereby numbering the 66 pieces in order, instead of numbering each volume individually. The movement list is as follows:
Book I, Op. 12 (composed 1866-7?; published 1867):
Book II, Op. 38 (composed 1883 except where noted; published 1883):
Book III, Op. 43 (composed probably 1886; published 1886; ded. Isidor Seiss):
Book IV, Op. 47 (composed 1886-8 except where noted; published 1888):
Book V, Op. 54 (composed 1889–91; published 1891; Nos. 1–4 later orchestrated as Lyric Suite):
Book VI, Op. 57 (composed 1890?–3; published 1893):
Book VII, Op. 62 (composed 1893?–5; published 1895):
Book VIII, Op. 65 (composed 1896; published 1897):
Book IX, Op. 68 (composed 1898-9; published 1899; Nos. 4 and 5 were orchestrated in 1899):
Book X, Op. 71 (composed and published 1901):
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