In the Hall of the Mountain King

Edvard Grieg

For clarinet and piano

Written in E minor, range E3 to G5

Peer Gynt, the hero of Ibsen’s play, has ended up in the hall of the troll king. The trolls creep closer, faster and louder, wanting to kill him, until the whole hall erupts. Grieg himself wrote that he could hardly bear to listen to it.

Also as a duet for two tubas

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