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Popular „powdered wig piece“. Grieg’s Holberg Suite in an up-to-date Urtext edition

Edvard Grieg
From Holberg’s Time for String Orchestra op. 40.
Bärenreiter Urtext. Edited by Christoph Rinne-Schroeder.Bärenreiter-Verlag 2022. BA08830. Score € 24,95, Stings each € 4,50.

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To celebrate the 200th birthday of the Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg in 1884 Edvard Grieg was commissioned to write an open-air cantata for the ceremony. But he also refers to Holberg in his instrumental music. The result was a “powdered wig piece” (as Grieg wrote to his publisher) that hearkens back to Holberg’s era – a historicising suite of baroque dances for piano, ranging from an exhilarating prelude and several dance numbers to a Bachian “air” and an impetuous “rigaudon”. Later Grieg arranged his suite for string orchestra. This version became one of his most popular compositions. For the new scholarly-critical Urtext edition (Bärenreiter-Verlag) Christoph Rinne-Schroeder has meticulously examined the original print and compared it with previously neglected performance material annotated by Grieg himself.

Edvard Grieg
From Holberg’s Time for String Orchestra op. 40.
Bärenreiter Urtext.  Edited Christoph Rinne-Schroeder.
Bärenreiter-Verlag 2022. BA08830. Score € 24,95, Stings each € 4,50.



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