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Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg

Label
Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg
Language
nor
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
drama
Main title
Peer Gynt
Oclc number
62253344
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Recorded in June 2003 at the Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
Responsibility statement
Edvard Grieg
Summary
Peer Gynt is the story of the wanderings of a fantasist and dreamer, a dandy, a drunkard, a liar, and a Don Juan figure. From the heights of the Norwegian mountains to the underground kingdom of the Trolls, to a lunatic asylum in Cairo, Peer chases his dream but never finds it. Finally, worn out with advancing age and broken in spirit, he returns to Norway, where he encounters both ominous warnings regarding the path he chose and redemptive love
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