Peer Gynt: “Morning Mood”

Composer: GRIEG, Edvard

Main page for Grieg’s Peer Gynt

  • Morgenstemning (Morning Mood) is the introduction to Act 4 of Grieg’s incidental music (1874-75)1 to Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (1867).2
  • Fun fact: this music is not a depiction of Grieg’s Norwegian homeland. This scene in Peer Gynt takes place in the desert of Morocco.3

Sources

  1. John Horton and Nils Grinde, “Grieg, Edvard,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 16, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011757.
  2. Robert M. Adams, “Henrik Ibsen,” Encyclopædia Brittanica (May 19, 2019), accessed October 16, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Ibsen.
  3. Daniel M. Grimley, Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2006), 221.

Cut IDs

14807, 15218, 16868, 44654