Sigurd Jorsalfar (Grieg) a melody for the first violins; the work ends with a recapitulation of the movement's first section. Incidental music, Op. 22: Sigurd Jorsalfar (Grieg) Sigurd Jorsalfar is a work of incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway. The incidental music, published as Op. 22, was first performed in Christiania on 10 April 1872. An orchestral suite compiled by Grieg from the main work and published as Op. 56 was premiered in Oslo on 5 November 1892 and revised by the composer the same year. The full work consists of
Lyric Suite (Grieg) from Book IX, Op. 68. Lyric Suite (Grieg) 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. Grieg wrote the six "Lyric Pieces" of Book V for piano in 1891. The original order was: In 1894, Anton Seidl, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, orchestrated four of the pieces for his orchestra to