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CHILDREN’S SPECIAL: TEN PIECES FEATURE Every month, we introduce one of the BBC’s ‘Ten Pieces’, each specially chosen to bring the wonders and joys of classical music to children of primary school age Cut-out and keep! ✁ JONTY CLARK ILLUSTRATION: Listen to Five great the music Part 4 Grieg facts! on your GRIEG cover CD! Grieg (below) was IN THE HALL OF THE Norwegian, but his family was originally Scottish MOUNTAIN KING He composed in a shed at the end of his garden, overlooking the sea CAN YOU IMAGINE a really horrible creature? No, not your headteacher. Worse even As a wedding anniversary than that. Think of something really, really hideous. Now picture yourself going to gift, his friends secretly meet him in a dark cave, surrounded by his nasty family and gruesome servants, hid a piano in his house who all want him to kill you. This is what happens to Peer Gynt, the dashing but Grieg wrote about big slightly naughty hero of a play by the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen, when he monsters, but he himself enters The Hall of the Mountain King. The Mountain King is a grim troll, a type of was very little Norwegian monster, whose daughter Peer Gynt wants to marry. Eek. Composer In 1974, the Wombles Edvard Grieg, who was also from Norway, wrote the music for a large orchestra to sang his music in ‘Hall of perform during Ibsen’s play, and he clearly had a lot of fun doing it. When Peer Gynt the Mountain Womble’! first goes into the cave, we hear him tiptoeing gingerly along, but as he gets closer and closer to the Mountain King, the music gets faster and faster and louder and louder until… Bang-crash! Bang-crash! It’s time to face the troll… Turn over for more! ➧ BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 65 CHILDREN’S SPECIAL: TEN PIECES FEATURE Cut-out and keep! Things to do! 1. Listen to the CD. At 0:17 a solo instrument plays the main ✁ tune. What is the instrument called? ................................................. .................................................................................................................................. 2. What happens to the music at 1:59?............................................. .................................................................................................................................. 3. See if you can find out more about the story of Peer Gynt. What else did he get up to? ........................................................ .................................................................................................................................. 4. Draw a picture of the Mountain King. Make him as hideous as possible! 5. How does this music make you feel? ................................................ Now explore other great music! Grieg Piano Concerto Sibelius Karelia Suite Olsen Åsgårdsreien After his music for Peer Gynt Someone else who liked writing Another Norwegian (below), Grieg’s most famous piece music about myths and legends composer is Ole Olsen (left), was his Piano Concerto. It begins was the Finnish composer who lived right up in the with a huge chord Sibelius (our cover very north of the in the piano, star this month). country. Brrr. His and ends with Try his Karelia Suite, exciting Åsgårdsreien the type of lively whose first part is about a wild Norwegian music sounds a little like hunt, as mythical that Grieg would an army riding characters ride have seen people triumphantly through the wind dance to at home. over a hill. and snow. How much did you like this music? I hated it! Not a lot… It was OK I liked it I loved it! 66 BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE.

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