Symphony (1864)

Composer: GRIEG, Edvard
  • Grieg composed his only symphony in in 1864 as a young man.
  • Grieg composed this symphony at the request of Danish composer Niels Gade, a preeminent Scandinavian composer, whom Grieg met in 1863. Gade composer felt Grieg didn’t have enough composition experience, so he told him to write a symphony.
  • Grieg eventually recycled the two middle movements of this symphony (including this one) as Deux pieces symphoniques Op.14, a piano duet work.1

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.

Cut IDs

19769