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Edvard Grieg's ''Lyric Suite'' is an orchestration of four of the six piano pieces from Book V of his ''Lyric Pieces'', Op. 54. Both Grieg and the Austro-Hungarian conductor Anton Seidl had a hand in the orchestration. It consists of three pieces revised by Grieg from Seidl's arrangements, and one piece arranged by Grieg alone. ==History== Grieg wrote the six ''Lyric Pieces'' of Book V for piano in 1891. The original order was: * 1. ''Shepherd Boy'' (Gjætergut) * 2. ''Norwegian March'' (Gangar) * 3. ''March of the Dwarfs'' (Troldtog) * 4. ''Notturno'' * 5. ''Scherzo'' * 6. ''Bell-Ringing'' (Klokkeklang). In 1894, Anton Seidl, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, orchestrated four of the pieces for his orchestra to play. He gave the work the title of ''Norwegian Suite''. The four pieces he chose were: * 2. ''Norwegian March'' * 3. ''March of the Dwarfs'' * 4. ''Notturno'' * 6. ''Bell-Ringing''. Seidl died in 1898. In 1905, with the assistance of Daniela Thode (1860-1940; the daughter of Cosima Wagner by her first husband Hans von Bülow, and the grand-daughter of Franz Liszt), Grieg obtained the score of Seidl's arrangement but was dissatisfied with it in some respects. He wrote to Seidl's widow, saying that, while her late husband's work had considerable merit, it did not fully accord with his own conception of the pieces, and he had therefore revised Seidl's orchestrations.〔(Naxos )〕〔(Classical Archives )〕 Seidl had worked alongside Richard Wagner for a number of years, making the first copy of the score of ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', and conducting the ''Ring Cycle'' many times in Germany and America. He was undoubtedly influenced by Wagner's heavy Germanic instrumentation, which did not fit well with Grieg's lighter, more subtle and folkloristic approach. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lyric Suite (Grieg)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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