Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King

In the Hall of the
Mountain King CD Edvard Grieg:
"In the Hall of the
Mountain King"
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In the Hall of the Mountain King (1875) is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg as incidental music for the sixth scene of Act 2 in Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play Peer Gynt. The piece is in the overall key of B minor. The simple theme begins slowly and quietly in the lowest registers of the orchestra, played first by the cellos, double basses, and bassoons. After being stated, the main theme is then very slightly modified with a few different ascending notes, but transposed up a perfect fifth (to the key of F-sharp major, the dominant key, but with flattened sixth) and played on different instruments. The two groups Sheet Music is below: