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Database: Notations / Scores
Category: Wind Band / Fanfare / Brass / Big Band
Sub category: Music from classical and romantic.
Art.-No.: 1294171
Title of composition: DANSE NORVEGIENNE NO. 2
Composer: GRIEG, EDVARD
Arrangeur: VILLERS, JEAN
Appearance year: 2004
Country: France (FR)
Grade of difficulty: 2 (Advanced)
Kind of orchestra: BLASORCHESTER
Publisher: MARTIN ROBERT EDITION
Duration: 2:00
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Additional information: THE NORVEGIAN COMPOSER EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG (1843-1907), IS A KEY CHARACTER IN THE HISTORY OF NORVEGIAN MUSIC. ANXIOUS TO ESCAPE THE INFLUENCE OF THE GERMAN ROMANTIC MOVEMENT, GRIEG TURNED TOWARDS THE POPULAR MELODY OF HIS COUNTRY. DUE TO HIS AUDACIOUS HARMONY FOR THE PERIOD, HE ALSO INFLUENCED COMPOSERS SUCH AS DEBUSSY, RAVEL, MACDOWELL, AMONG OHTERS. HIS WOKR MAINLY INCLUDES LIEDER AND SHORT PIECES FOR THE PIANO, BUT HE ALSO EXPRESSED HIS EXCEPTIONAL MUSICAL SENSITIVITY IN THE FORM OF SONATA AND IN COMPOSITIONS FOR THE ORCHESTRA. AS A CONDUCTOR HE OFTEN TRAVELLED ABROAD WHERE HE MET ARTISTS AND IN PARTICULAR LISZT WHO MADE HIS MUSIC KNOWN OUTSIDE NORWAY, IN 1870. HIS "NORVEGIAN DANCES" WERE COMPOSED FOR THE PIANO FOR 4 HANDS IN 1881. A SECOND VERSION WAS WRITTEN FOR TWO HANDS IN 1887.
THE ARRANGEMENT OF THESE TWO DANCES FOR WIND ORCHESTRAS PROPOSED HERE RESPECTS THE NATURE OF GRIEG'S MUSIC. IT IS TRANSLATED BY A CONTRASTED ORCHESTRATION DRAWING ADVANTAGE FROM THE FINESSES OF THE WIND ORCHESTRA, BUT ALSO FROM ITS POWER AND ITS VOLUME. THESE PIECES HAVE A SOLEMN CHARACTER WELL ADAPTED TO CHURCH CONCERTS.
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