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In the Hall of the Mountain King — right-hand melody

Play Grieg’s famous creeping troll melody and contrasting middle episode from Peer Gynt in A minor with your right hand.

Next stepsEdvard Grieg · 16-bar theme in A minor · piano one handPiano · One hand · A minor · 4/4

108 beats per minute. Changing speed stops playback; press Play to start again.

Composed by Edvard Grieg (1875); source edition by Mutopia Project. Public domain composition and source edition. Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic. · www.noteplaymusic.com

Try it at the keyboard

  1. Start slowly and detached, like footsteps tiptoeing through a dark cave.
  2. Watch out for bar 2 and bar 6: the first three notes use D♯ and B, then the second half shifts down to D natural and B♭.
  3. In bars 9–12, shift up to E4–B4 for the troll king’s answering phrase before returning to the main A minor theme.

About this score

Transposed from B minor to A minor across a 16-bar A–A–B–A structure so the main theme uses white keys with chromatic inflections.

Composed by Edvard Grieg (1875); source edition by Mutopia Project. Public domain composition and source edition. Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic.

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