Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46 (Arranged for Piano by the Composer)

Grieg composed “Peer Gynt Suite – In the Hall of the Mountain King”. It was used as incidental music for the play “Peer Gynt”. In this piece of music, Peer steals the bride at a wedding. The angry guests chase him and Peer falls, hitting his head on a rock.

He wakes up in a mountain surrounded by trolls. The music represents the angry trolls taunting Peer, and gets louder each time the theme repeats. The music ends with Peer escaping from the mountain