Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16
Urtext
[pno,orch] duration: 30' solo: pno – 2(picc).2.2.2 – 4.2.3.0 – timp – str
Description
The “piano concerto in a minor” stands out in Edvard Grieg’s oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg’s lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto’s size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Günter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death.
EB 10719
piano reduction
(equal to HN 719)
EAN: 9790201807195
72 pages / 23.5 x 31 cm / 293 g / softbound
PB 15164
study score
EAN: 9790004215906
108 pages / 16.5 x 22.5 cm / 222 g / softbound
OB 15152-15
violin 1
EAN: 9790004344057
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 70 g / stapled
OB 15152-16
violin 2
EAN: 9790004344064
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 70 g / stapled
OB 15152-19
viola
EAN: 9790004344071
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 70 g / stapled
OB 15152-23
violoncello
EAN: 9790004344088
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 66 g / stapled
OB 15152-27
double bass
EAN: 9790004344095
8 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 49 g / stapled
OB 15152-30
wind parts
EAN: 9790004344101
144 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 616 g / folder
Description
Description
The “piano concerto in a minor” stands out in Edvard Grieg’s oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg’s lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto’s size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Günter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death.
Table of contents
| 1. | Allegro molto moderato |
| 2. | Adagio |
| 3. | Allegro moderato molto e marcato – Quasi presto – Andante maestoso |