No doubt you’ve heard Edvard Grieg’s music from “Peer Gynt,” with hits such as “Morning Mood” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” now part of pop culture. (Think Bugs Bunny and the movie, “Trolls.”) The two suites that the Norwegian composer arranged from his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s play are a staple of orchestral concerts.
Maybe you’ve read Ibsen’s sprawling verse play of 1867 based in Norwegian folklore, a mixture of fantasy and reality. The episodic scenario…
