Book Description

This volumes presents Urtext editions of Grieg's Suite from Holberg's Time (Suite in the Old Style) Op. 40; Grieg's piano arrangements of his own songs opuses 41 and 52; and the Moods, Op.73. The piano pieces in op. 41 are transcriptions of Cradle Song, op.9 no.2; Margaret's Cradle Song, op.15 no.1; I Love Thee op.5 no.3; My Love Is So Pure, op.18 no.2; The Princess (without opus number); and To Spring, op.21 no.3. Opus 52 includes transcriptions of A Mother's Grief, op.15 no.4; The First Meeting, op.21 no.1; The Poet's Heart, op.5 no.2; Solveig's Song, op.23 no. 18; Love, op.15 no.2; and The Old Mother, op.33 no.7. These editions are taken from the autograph scores or first editions of the works, which were published in the composer's lifetime and approved by him.