Peer Gynt (Grieg)

Peer Gynt
Incidental music and Suites by Edvard Grieg
Photograph of Grieg, 1888
Opus	23 46 (Suite No. 1) 55 (Suite No. 2)
Text	from Ibsen's Peer Gynt
Composed	1875 (1875)
Performed	24 February 1876 (1876-02-24) Oslo
Scoring	SATB soloists and choir orchestra

Peer Gynt, Op. 23, is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play Peer Gynt, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1875. It premiered along with the play on 24 February 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo).^[1]

Grieg later created two suites from his Peer Gynt music. Some of the music from these suites has received coverage in popular culture.