This composer switched between a 2/4 Allegro furioso and a 3/4 Andante at the beginning and end of one movement of a suite.
This composer switched between a 2/4 Allegro furioso and a 3/4 Andante at the beginning and end of one movement of a suite. The string orchestra version of one of this composer's works has violin and viola solos in its final "Rigaudon" movement. The last movement of one of his pieces starts as a 2/4 halling before shifting into 3/4 and then 4/4. That work opens with a timpani roll, followed by a dramatic chordal flourish beginning with a (*) falling minor second and major third in the solo part. A piece by this man begins with celli and basses plucking a sinister B minor theme, which is repeated in a constant crescendo. This composer wrote a suite "in olden style" called Holberg Suite and a Piano Concerto in A minor. For 10 points, name this Norwegian composer who derived "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from incidental music to an Ibsen play, Peer Gynt.
This composer switched between a 2/4 Allegro furioso and a 3/4 Andante at the beginning and end of one movement of a suite.
Edvard Hagerup Grieg