This suite was written to commemorate the Danish/Norwegian history professor and playwriter Ludvig Holberg, born in the same town Bergen as Grieg, but in 1684. Holberg made an academic career in Denmark, since this was not possible in Norway at the time. He became a philosopher and historian, and he was the first to write comedies in the style of Molière in Danish and for a new theatre in Copenhagen - "Den danske Skueplads". When the theatre later was closed by a new king, Holberg concentrated on his job as professor for history and on philosophic writing. Grieg, coming from the same town as Holberg, wanted to raise a musical monument for Holberg. Since Holberg lived during the late Baroque era, Grieg tried to write a suite for strings with strong inspiration from this period, a suite inspired by Bach, Händel and Telemann. But still, this suite sounds very much Norwegian and quite little like the old Baroque masters.
I played this my Freshman Year as a Bass player in High School. I never knew how much joy it would bring untill now I miss playing this at 830 I was excited to wake up in the morning. Thank you Mr. Nunnally
This is one of my favorite pieces to listen to and play of all time. I mean it's such a well rounded piece of music. The key, the phrasing is just perfect. The Air is particularly beautiful and emotional. I just love everything about it. Glad to see I'm not alone.
This Suite is one of my most favourite pieces- I am transported to another time and place with my imagination running wild from every emotion possible : joy to sadness and tears and back again what a beautiful legacy Greig has bestowed upon us 😀😚😢😉😎
Observing something so artful can make you realize - and relax - the frustrations and stress you didn't even realize you had. Thank you to the composers and performers of such beautiful masterpieces.
This piece is so good, pieces like this are what make me reconsider whether or not I should major in music. It's so fun to listen to and even more fun to play, playing is like being a part of a beautiful, elegant machine, all parts moving with each other, understanding each other, and creating a masterpiece together. It's like having a really fun date with the girl of your dreams, but it's you and 60 other kids creating beautiful music. This piece will always be the epitome of the classical era for me, the composure is so well done, the music theory is so sound yet full of passion, carrying you through so many different emotions. This is art, this is what we show the aliens.
Majoring in music is 100% NOT a necessity when composing music. If you want to make beautiful art, nothing but your heart is needed. As you can see, and as corny as this may sound, you cant write heart without art. But obviously this information is also not a necessity when making music. Of course, if you go to a good school, a music major will do wonders. Apart from the musical education you'll get, (which won't make you any better at music, but will make you understand it better) it can serve as a great font of inspiration, you'll meet a lot of talented musicians and have many other amazing experiences. But the reality of it is, no level of knowledge of music can make you compose a masterpiece. A true masterpiece isnt created, it's simply brought into existence. It will have existed inside you ever since you had your first breath, and is born from a combination of you as a person and all of your experiences. You will simply master the art of bringing music out from you to the outside world. It's a beautiful thing, really.
@@J.R.Swish1ваше высказывание надо увековечить....настолько оно верное и правильное...у меня нет музыкального образования,к сожалению, но музыкой болею с детства,чувствую из нутри ее,не знаю,толи сердцем,толи душой..Григ это редкое явление в музыкальной культуре
My 8th grade chamber ensemble group played the Praeludium for the judges (at a slower speed). Keeping a simple but consistent pattern on a steady tempo without a conductor was harder than we thought.
Wow, same here! As a violist, one thing I can remember vividly from when I played this senior year was the very intense death glares we would get from time to time 😂 ESPECIALLY at 1:04- getting all 4 of us to play that perfectly together took us months! 😭
I randomly remembered this piece just now, years after playing it in orchestra (the 1st movement specifically). It took me forever but I finally remembered the name! 😭❤
What a delightful piece. Im so glad i got recommended this. Im always looking for more music channels. This is really great work. Subbed, thanks, and keep up the good work! 👍
Thank you very much indeed for putting the score with the music playing behind it,what a super piece of music this is,particularly the Gavotte and the Musette which are coupled together,good work and thank you again.
So is no one going to talk about the Air? I think I will never recover from the emotional damage it has caused me. Shit that was intense. Amazing but at the same time I think it got me depressed and scarred for life.
Grieg took inspiration from nkrwegian folk music when writing, so a lot of his music is based on dance forms, much like baroque era music, which also tends to be based around dances. Aside from that, this particular suite uses very old and out of fashion dance forms as inspiration, the Sarabande, Rigaudon and Gavotte, but that were very popular during the baroque period. In short, Grieg is dressing up ancient baroque styles with his norwegian folk melodic and harmonic approach, creating something that's both romantic and baroque. Hope I managed to clear things up :)
@@cxmxg In fact, the inspiration is in the original title: "From Holberg's time - Suite in old style". It was composed on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Ludvig Holberg, a poet and philosopher from Grieg's home country of Norway. Holberg lived from 1684 to 1754, almost exactly like Bach (1685-1750) - so hearing some baroque here is not surprising :)
On the night of its premiere, Grieg was so delighted with the response of the audience, he invited everyone to his home for supper!!! I'm sure his wife was delighted lol.
@@sunnyjim1355 Can we stop shaming people who don't know the correct terminology? What a fantastic way to reinforce the idea that classical music is elitist.
Absolutely love the piece Still don’t understand why he shifted everything by one beat in 3rd movement... it’s just impossible to feel the pulse that way
@@premanadiYou mean an anacrusis? An incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece is termed an anacrusis. I know because I am a violist in an amateur orchestra and have a musical background.
@@angelacooper2661 Sure, that's the fancy technical word, but hardly any professional musician bothers with it. It tends to sound pretentious to us. We just say "upbeat" or "pickup." I'm a professional musician with 45 years working experience. We all know what anacrusis means, but it is barely used.
I'd forgotten this existed, and although it's very familiar, I can't quite work out why. Was it on a CD I heard as a child? Did I play it while in am orchestra? Doesn't really matter, I'm glad to hear it again!
Can anyone tell me where I've heard the minor section (the first bit that gets repeated) of Air before (especially the cello / bass descent), it's annoying me but I've heard it before. A film? A TV show? A TwoSet video??
I am an amateur violist in a local orchestra but have never played this work, which is in G major except for the Air and middle section of the Rigaudon (G minor). However, Peer Gynt Suite 1 is a work that I played decades ago! I possess perfect pitch.
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This suite was written to commemorate the Danish/Norwegian history professor and playwriter Ludvig Holberg, born in the same town Bergen as Grieg, but in 1684. Holberg made an academic career in Denmark, since this was not possible in Norway at the time. He became a philosopher and historian, and he was the first to write comedies in the style of Molière in Danish and for a new theatre in Copenhagen - "Den danske Skueplads". When the theatre later was closed by a new king, Holberg concentrated on his job as professor for history and on philosophic writing. Grieg, coming from the same town as Holberg, wanted to raise a musical monument for Holberg. Since Holberg lived during the late Baroque era, Grieg tried to write a suite for strings with strong inspiration from this period, a suite inspired by Bach, Händel and Telemann. But still, this suite sounds very much Norwegian and quite little like the old Baroque masters.
😃
Norwegian where?
Bro wrote an essay 💀💀💀
Но это великолепно,да и Норвежского тут ничего нет,хотя и барокко совсем не пахнет, безумно хорошо...
Timecodes:
00:00 1 - Praeludium
02:40 2 - Sarabande
06:30 3 - Gavotte
09:45 4 - Air
15:38 5 - Rigaudon
Hope you enjoy! :)
Thanks
AltoClef lovely stuff !
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Oh hello big brother. How are you?
Been a while since I saw you!
The Air is so powerful in some bars. You can really feel that when you play. Amazing
I played this my Freshman Year as a Bass player in High School. I never knew how much joy it would bring untill now I miss playing this at 830 I was excited to wake up in the morning. Thank you Mr. Nunnally
I played this in my junior year as 3rd chair first violinist. I'm now a senior. I miss playing this too.
I played bass in this too, such trilling and fun music, playful too!
Im playing this for my 2nd concert in chamber as a freshman violin😭
This is one of my favorite pieces to listen to and play of all time. I mean it's such a well rounded piece of music. The key, the phrasing is just perfect. The Air is particularly beautiful and emotional. I just love everything about it. Glad to see I'm not alone.
This Suite is one of my most favourite pieces- I am transported to another time and place with my imagination running wild from every emotion possible : joy to sadness and tears and back again what a beautiful legacy Greig has bestowed upon us 😀😚😢😉😎
I know what you mean! The GPO short film- Mid summers day work- Priceless!!!
Observing something so artful can make you realize - and relax - the frustrations and stress you didn't even realize you had.
Thank you to the composers and performers of such beautiful masterpieces.
First time ever hearing this and I think the Praeludium might be the coolest thing I've heard in ages. That release from 1:39 to 1:59 is just divine.
Great comment Bradley
It's one of my favorite things to play on piano! I have a nice reduction. in one of my Grieg compilation books.
@@jillykobilly not a reduction in fact, you're playing the original! Grieg arranged for strings later 🙂
It sounds like kung fu panda music😂
I've never heard something so wonderful and sublime, the way it transported me on a wave of feelings and chills was incredible, like angels singing.
1:04 violas understand the struggle
frfr
....I’m a viola and you understand me.
Chen hao I always think it’s weird how we say we are a viola not we play the viola and I do it to 😂
@@alexmapes5923 we play so long we become a viola
KungFuViolist 😂
12:42 is my ALL TIME favourite passage. The way it builds is GORGEOUS and the way it resolved before 13:21 is beautiful.
i agree; i awlays tell my conductor that it is such a beatiful solo
This piece is so good, pieces like this are what make me reconsider whether or not I should major in music. It's so fun to listen to and even more fun to play, playing is like being a part of a beautiful, elegant machine, all parts moving with each other, understanding each other, and creating a masterpiece together. It's like having a really fun date with the girl of your dreams, but it's you and 60 other kids creating beautiful music. This piece will always be the epitome of the classical era for me, the composure is so well done, the music theory is so sound yet full of passion, carrying you through so many different emotions. This is art, this is what we show the aliens.
Majoring in music is 100% NOT a necessity when composing music. If you want to make beautiful art, nothing but your heart is needed. As you can see, and as corny as this may sound, you cant write heart without art.
But obviously this information is also not a necessity when making music. Of course, if you go to a good school, a music major will do wonders. Apart from the musical education you'll get, (which won't make you any better at music, but will make you understand it better) it can serve as a great font of inspiration, you'll meet a lot of talented musicians and have many other amazing experiences.
But the reality of it is, no level of knowledge of music can make you compose a masterpiece. A true masterpiece isnt created, it's simply brought into existence. It will have existed inside you ever since you had your first breath, and is born from a combination of you as a person and all of your experiences. You will simply master the art of bringing music out from you to the outside world. It's a beautiful thing, really.
@@J.R.Swish1ваше высказывание надо увековечить....настолько оно верное и правильное...у меня нет музыкального образования,к сожалению, но музыкой болею с детства,чувствую из нутри ее,не знаю,толи сердцем,толи душой..Григ это редкое явление в музыкальной культуре
As a violist, the part in the middle of praeludium before the pizzicato literally became my worst nightmare.
One day, I’ll have the gavotte-musette played at my wedding. I don’t care what else my wife wants, she’s walking down the aisle to Grieg.
My 8th grade chamber ensemble group played the Praeludium for the judges (at a slower speed). Keeping a simple but consistent pattern on a steady tempo without a conductor was harder than we thought.
I played the Holberg Suite my senior year in high school! It solidified my college music scholarship! Good times!
Wow, same here! As a violist, one thing I can remember vividly from when I played this senior year was the very intense death glares we would get from time to time 😂 ESPECIALLY at 1:04- getting all 4 of us to play that perfectly together took us months! 😭
@@gaylagrause 😂, I know the feeling! Lol
I'm so excited to find this. I played a piano reduction of this in high school. It was one of my favorite pieces I worked on.
That’s wasn’t a reduction; it was originally scored for solo piano and only later arranged for string orchestra by grieg
I randomly remembered this piece just now, years after playing it in orchestra (the 1st movement specifically). It took me forever but I finally remembered the name! 😭❤
I can’t believe my high school is playing this. Beautiful 🤩
탱로그씨 과제 하러 왔습니다
What a delightful piece. Im so glad i got recommended this. Im always looking for more music channels. This is really great work. Subbed, thanks, and keep up the good work! 👍
yep
This familiar masterpiece is comfortable to the ears and the mind
@@sunnyjim1355
Thank-you
Which is your country ？
Lovely warmth to the playing and acoustic. Thanks for posting. I am listening while reading Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'.
And that Rigaudon sounds very like some Swedish and Norwegian folk music that I play sometimes.
Sorry but how the f can you read while listening to this ? You’re doing both a discredit.
I just got assigned praeludium to play as a intro for my school orchestra and im really looking forward to playing this!
as an orchestra student who is not planning on joining BCMEA honour orchestra but is forced to play this, count your days Greig😭
7:46 this part always wakes up that little butterfly in my stomach
5:14 was stuck in my head today and it took me a while but I found it. love this piece
?!?!?!?
Im stuck in your head
@@noahs5914 bro what are you on?
@@kwilo your mom
Thank you very much indeed for putting the score with the music playing behind it,what a super piece of music this is,particularly the Gavotte and the Musette which are coupled together,good work and thank you again.
Timecodes:
00:00 Allegro vivace
02:40 Andante
06:30 Allegretto
09:45 Andante religioso
15:38 Allegro con brio
copy
the movements have names
So is no one going to talk about the Air? I think I will never recover from the emotional damage it has caused me. Shit that was intense. Amazing but at the same time I think it got me depressed and scarred for life.
You and me both 😂😭
I came here to get depressing music outta my head not in, damnit. Everywhere at the end of time is a bitch.
@@springtheory9245 fax
@@springtheory9245Everywhere at the end of time is a female dog? A bitch is the descriptive name for a female dog!
fun farms with gnembon
Yerpp!
I was wondering why I recognized this
I love all the comments !!!
Thank you AltoClef!
i played this junior year. it was so fun to play
I love him !
As a violist, the part in the middle before the pizzicato literally became my worst nightmare.
탱로그 교수님 과제하러 온 사람 🙋🏻♀️
Air is sooo underrated
So this is what Alex LaMotte was inspired by
Twoset Violin!
who is a legs lay moat?
I love the cello soli in sarabande, and my favorite movement is air
I have searched for this piece for suuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUCHALONGTIME!!!! Thank you, TH-cam algorithm :)
@@noahs5914 que idioma hablas, hermano...
Been looking for this piece for at least 2 years now. Finally found it.
2 years wasted how does it feel
I didn't remember which one Holberg Suite was. Glad I looked it up
Why does this sound a bit both classical and baroque? I don’t know much of Grieg yet
Love the overall romantic feeling tho
Grieg took inspiration from nkrwegian folk music when writing, so a lot of his music is based on dance forms, much like baroque era music, which also tends to be based around dances. Aside from that, this particular suite uses very old and out of fashion dance forms as inspiration, the Sarabande, Rigaudon and Gavotte, but that were very popular during the baroque period. In short, Grieg is dressing up ancient baroque styles with his norwegian folk melodic and harmonic approach, creating something that's both romantic and baroque. Hope I managed to clear things up :)
TheNeverEndingBeing Thank you so very much kind Being!
@@cxmxg In fact, the inspiration is in the original title: "From Holberg's time - Suite in old style". It was composed on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Ludvig Holberg, a poet and philosopher from Grieg's home country of Norway. Holberg lived from 1684 to 1754, almost exactly like Bach (1685-1750) - so hearing some baroque here is not surprising :)
Rhangaun Thank you so much! ❤️
On the night of its premiere, Grieg was so delighted with the response of the audience, he invited everyone to his home for supper!!! I'm sure his wife was delighted lol.
This song makes me want to make a farm that produces 10,000 items per hour.
@@sunnyjim1355 Ah, sorry bout that. 😅😅😅
Pigman joins in the chat
*sad squid kid noises*
Someone has been watching some Gnembon
@@sunnyjim1355 Can we stop shaming people who don't know the correct terminology? What a fantastic way to reinforce the idea that classical music is elitist.
I’m hearing quite a bit of super Mario galaxy inspirations in this! Anyone agree? Especially first movement
not really
i’m hearing it! but really only in vibe occasionally. i dont know if there are any melodic similarities
I remember waking up with this music playing in the background
are you being tortured?
Thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks for uploading this
awesome compositions , thanks for uploading it
Me: I use baritone clef
Everyone at the party:
Wait. That's illegal.
Which baritone clef? The one based off of the C clef or the F clef?
@@incoherentproductions992 C clef is more fun
@@eliasmazhukin2009 lol Why don’t you use the clefs that everyone uses like treble bass alto treble 8vb
@@eliasmazhukin2009 I agree it BASSically useless
@@kevinnguyen552 True. The soprano clef however is SUPER cool
J'y suis, c'etait le générique de Decaunes.
1:04 the viola part reminds me of beethoven 4
yesss!! the final movement right?
@@charliepotts5604 yep
Why you acting sus
Gnembon gang!
Some parts of the first movement reminded me of the Mozart Violin Concerto in G major.
Idk bro but sometimes I itch my forehead
Que cavalgada incrível pelos prados das planícies norueguesas, é a primeira imagem que me vem desse tema orquestra de abertura!
@@noahs5914 selvagem
Full of rustic beauty!
Absolutely love the piece
Still don’t understand why he shifted everything by one beat in 3rd movement... it’s just impossible to feel the pulse that way
That’s how a gavotte’s meter is. Check out Bach’s gavottes, for example in the French suites, and the fifth and sixth cello suites.
A gavotte always has a half bar upbeat.
@@scruffysean3640 thanks for the info! Leant something new
@@premanadiYou mean an anacrusis? An incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece is termed an anacrusis. I know because I am a violist in an amateur orchestra and have a musical background.
@@angelacooper2661 Sure, that's the fancy technical word, but hardly any professional musician bothers with it. It tends to sound pretentious to us. We just say "upbeat" or "pickup."
I'm a professional musician with 45 years working experience. We all know what anacrusis means, but it is barely used.
大好き！！
Welcome home, Moby.
Thanks, Annie.
Welcome home, Moby.
Thanks, Annie.
Wonderful
June 26th. What actually matters? Nothing does, get into the flow and stop thinking.
that prelude
Merci merci, merci !!!!
OH, et encore, merci ! 😊
Praeledium is my favourite!
agree
Very nice video & music!
The score is singing .
The score of the genius composer is beyond my imagination and beyond description
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Great comment my g
@@noahs5914
Thank-you
Good night！
I'd forgotten this existed, and although it's very familiar, I can't quite work out why. Was it on a CD I heard as a child? Did I play it while in am orchestra? Doesn't really matter, I'm glad to hear it again!
Maybe it was used in an ad or trailer, 'common' classical pieces are sometimes used for that.
*G N E M B O N*
i lost my notes so this helpes alot thanks!
Néo-classicime avant la lettre.
this goes so hard
that one part at B makes me wanna cry (viola) hopefully concert doesn't fall apart
1:00 viola excerpt
와 곡 좋다ㅜㅜ
Hi korean cat
Thanks.💗
1:45 personal timestamp for an audition
A wonderful piece. Good performance, though I thought the Riguadon was played too fast.
I hear a little classical symphony in this intro…
muy buen registro
0:03
I’m playing this for middle school orch rn
the dislikes r fron the people who hates alto clef
The dislikes are from Dr. Kondraki
I hate all clefs especially the chins
aka the entire cello group
the prelude gave me mozart vibes
You give me mozart vibes old man
Can anyone tell me where I've heard the minor section (the first bit that gets repeated) of Air before (especially the cello / bass descent), it's annoying me but I've heard it before. A film? A TV show? A TwoSet video??
Thank you
I suddenly feel like building some high performance farm.
2:15 Letter E part is excellent 🥹
really gets me in the mood to build an iron farm
I am an amateur violist in a local orchestra but have never played this work, which is in G major except for the Air and middle section of the Rigaudon (G minor). However, Peer Gynt Suite 1 is a work that I played decades ago! I possess perfect pitch.
welcome people who came here because they go to music school :))
Suite music !
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OH NO
Ayo a fellow SCP fan!
v i o l a
2:48 I've heard this piece from John Wick 3
I eat dogs
im not asian btw so its weird
13:00
Excelent
Así que de aquí sacó la idea el director de la Orquestita donde estoy, para hacernos sufrir 😂😉😢
C mamo
At one point Grieg must have heard Mozart.
5:45
1:00
Maravillosa,, música
14:47
wrong time its 11:11 am smh