Morning Mood (Peer Gynt Suite) – Edvard Grieg – Piano

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"Morning Mood" (Norwegian: Morgenstemning),[1] commonly referred to simply as "Morning", is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, and was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46. Music Written in E major, the melody uses the pentatonic scale and alternates between flute and oboe. Unusually, the climax occurs early in the piece at the first forte which signifies the sun breaking through.[2] The time signature is 68 and the tempo instruction is Allegretto pastorale. It is orchestrated for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and string section. A performance takes about four minutes. Setting The piece depicts the rising of the sun during act 4, scene 4, of Ibsen's play, which finds Peer Gynt stranded in the Moroccan desert after his companions took his yacht and abandoned him there while he slept. The scene begins with the following description: "Dawn. Acacias and palm trees. Peer [Gynt] is sitting in his tree using a wrenched-off branch to defend himself against a group of monkeys."[3] As the Peer Gynt suites take their pieces out of the original context of the play, "Morning Mood" is not widely known in its original setting, and images of Grieg's Scandinavian origins more frequently spring to the minds of its listeners than those of the desert it was written to depict.[4] See also Classical music portal Grieg's music in popular culture References ^ Grieg, Edvard. Peer Gynt Suite I, Opus 46, Partitur / Full Score (in German, English, and French). Frankfurt: Edition Peters. p. 3. ISMN 9790014011284. Nr. 2433. Retrieved 19 July 2025 – via Internet Archive. ^ Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) Vol. 4: Peer Gynt Suites; Orchestral Songs, Naxos Records, liner notes by Bjarte Engeset ^ Ibsen, Henrik (2016). "Act 4, Scene 4". Peer Gynt. Translated by Hill, Geoffrey. Penguin. ^ Jeal, Erica (2001-08-11). "Prom 27: Peer Gynt". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2012-01-02. one listened differently to 'Morning' on discovering that it doesn't illustrate dawn in the fjords but a hazy sunrise in the middle of the Sahara. 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