Sigurd Jorsalfar (Grieg)
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Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; it was revised by the composer in 1892. The work was first performed in Christiania in 1872.
The suite is in three movements. The first, titled "In the King's Hall", is a prelude which opens with a bassoon and clarinet theme played against plucked strings. This part returns after a trio section. The second movement, "Borghild's Dream", is an intermezzo contrasting a sensitive string melody with an agitated section. The last movement, "Homage March", opens with trumpet fanfares before presenting its main subject, a martial theme, on four cellos. The middle part, again a trio, is dominated by a melody for the first violins; the work ends with a recapitulation of the movement's first section.
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- David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.
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