In the Hall of the Mountain King

Edvard Grieg

For trumpet and piano

Written in F♯ minor, range F♯3 to A5

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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