About this work
The Death of Åse, the second number in the first Peer Gynt Suite, appears here as a piano piece marked Andante doloroso. The melody moves mainly by step above repeated chords, like a slow procession whose successive returns gain weight.
Grieg gradually thickens the middle register and directs the tension towards fuller chords. The final page then withdraws that intensity: dynamics fall to pianissimo and rests broaden the closing cadence.
Keep a regular pulse without turning the chords into isolated blows. Let the upper line breathe across several bars, shape each crescendo through the harmony and retain enough reserve for the return to quietness to sound genuinely distant.
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