Edvard Grieg ‒ Piano Sonata, Op.7

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Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), Piano Sonata, Op.7 (1865)

Performed by Einar Steen-Nøkleberg

00:00 - No. 1 Allegro moderato
04:31 - No. 2 Andante molto
08:58 - No. 3 Alla Menuetto, ma poco più lento
12:22 - No. Finale: Molto allegro

Early on in his career, before discovering his talents for miniatures, songs, and incidental music, Edvard Grieg tried his hand at more traditional concert music in its then-rigidly codified styles and forms. Indeed, the list of Grieg's almost entirely unplayed early compositions reads like a text of essential concert music varieties: a symphony, some chamber sonatas, an abandoned string quartet, a piano concerto. The first of all these standard concert works to be completed was the Sonata for piano in E minor, Op. 7 (1865, revised 1887), a work so obscure that one can dig through book after book without catching a single reference to it and plunder shelf after shelf without finding either a copy or a recording.

And yet, for all that obscurity -- and despite Grieg's admitted discomfort with such works -- the Piano Sonata in E minor is, in its own way, quite an appealing work, like a colorful and clever, but admittedly underdeveloped child. The first of its four movements, Allegro moderato, rides forth on a vital theme that seems to want to plumb the very depths of the earth; if the figurations that surround it and the manner in which it is built up over the course of the movement seem somewhat juvenile, the same might be said of many a more-famous sonata composer's earliest efforts. The Andante molto second movement has just a touch of the same time-stands-still magic that graces the slow movement of the composer's Piano Concerto (written some three years later). The third movement -- Alla minuetto, ma poco più lento -- may be uncomfortably heavy-handed, but its peculiar Nordic flavor and odd dissonances at least add novelty. The finale gallops forth in 6/8 meter and has a chorale-like second subject which, during the recapitulation, achieves the happy E major in which the sonata closes.
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Horowitz, as a young student, played a lot of Grieg's music. It's been said that he loved Grieg's music greatly. It's music to please the soul, not necessarily to astound an audience. That could be why Horowitz stopped performing Grieg. Photos of Edvard Grieg always show a calm and pleasing countenance. To compose such music as "At Your Feet", or "Notturno", or "Phantom" (three of my favorites), Grieg absolutely had to be of a higher consciousness. I bow to Grieg from my heart.

palmerplantagenet
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As a concert pianist, I have always loved performing Grieg's Concerto but haven't performed the sonata yet. I'm in love with it. Gorgeous writing.

SpencerMusicSchool
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Grieg’s melodies are beautiful. Simple yet incredibly marvelous.

Dylonely
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I thought Grieg was a great composer and now I think he's better then I thought because of this piece

thecanadianpianist
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This is one of my favourite Grieg compositions. This Sonata sounds like a fusion of Mendelssohn and Chopin with also that Scandinavian touch.

dracorex
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Edvard Grieg:e-moll Zongoraszonáta Op.7
1.Allegro moderato 00:05
2.Andante molto - L'istesso tempo 04:33
3. Alla menuetto, ma poco piú lento 08:58
4.Finálé:Molto allegro 12:23
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg-zongora

davidrehak
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The second movement is absolutely stunning...

Daves_PianoAndPipes
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I just visited Troldhaugen and attended to a lunchtime concert where the pianist played the 2nd movement of this sonata. I am carefully listening to it now and I love it so much already

renatoargh
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WHY am i just now hearing this? WONDERFUL! Bravo Grieg!

mrbrianmccarthy
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The great Norwegian composer reached his height in the concrrto.
I fear his creativity was hampered by sonata form trying to win recognition. The Grieg Concetto will stand out like Everest forever. It is a pinnacle of inspired melody from first note to last. I bow before Edward Grieg for his immortal concerto. Though it it is well constructed, melody, the goddess of music, reigns supreme.

stevehinnenkamp
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Grieg transcende ! Sua obra, rica em beleza e cor o eleva a um dos 10 maiores compositores de todos os tempos !

CarlosLima-oewn
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A youth - and unique - beautiful sonata of Grieg for piano solo. Grieg will mainly write miniatures during his career. The influence of Schumann is obvious here. In turn, Grieg will greatly influence SInding, who wrote a lot of albums in the style of Grieg (among which the very famous "Rustles of Spring" and an unique sonata in H, clearly also under Liszt's influence, a too much underrated masterwork masterwork in the genre of sonatas in one movement. A concert with the Grieg and Sinding sonatas would be a great event.

gerardbegni
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I love the little references to peer gynte and his first piano concerto

officialmozart
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I'M PLAYING IT, THATS AMAZING! I DIDNT EVEN KNOW, THAT IT WILL GET GREATER

annaruffer
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Grieg himself recorded the full third movement and partially the fourth. And I think his interpretation is the one for anybody who wants to play this sonata.

kaleidoscopio
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피아노 전공생이엿는데 쇼팽베토벤은 어느정도면 따라하기가 가능하지만 그리그는 쉬워보여도 곡이해도랑 테크닉 박자 다 완벽해야 제대로 소리가들리는곡 ㅠㅠㅠㅠ 음표하나하나가 엄청중요한곡

lzyskxz
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I'm learning this for a recital. It's beautiful but certainly more difficult than I had intended my rep to be!

hollowcliche
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Griegs piano sonata op 7 in e minor was strongly influenced by Niels W Gades piano sonata in the same key op 53. Grieg met Gade in Copenhagen as a fatherly friend and asked for some advice how to do to become famous as a composer. Gade told Grieg "write a symphony", and Grieg did so by writing his symphony in c minor which was strongly influenced by Gades symphony Nr 1 in exactly the same key. But Grieg imitated also Gades piano sonata, which Gade had dedicated to Franz Liszt. Griegs piano sonata is much harsher than that by Gade, which shows strong influences from Gades teacher Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Grieg wanted to honour his master Gade but at the same time mark the distance between the more raw and crude Norwegian sound and the mild Danish sound influenced from German romanticism.

olavtryggvason
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I didnt know that einstein was a composer

piotrkulczewski
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喜愛古典音樂的樂友都一定知道葛利格的鋼琴協奏曲是「家喻戶曉」級的名曲, 但我現在才驚覺葛利格是很早期的作曲家😅 ! !? ) ! 這首奏鳴曲是首次聆賞, 我感覺葛利格很擅長用單音就描寫出發射到天空的光芒, 我真的很喜歡這首曲子的末樂章 !

tomlin