Arietta Op.12 No.1 by Edvard Grieg. Mariannet Navarro.

Edvard Grieg’s collection of 66 short Lyric Pieces includes some of his best known music. They were published in 10 volumes between 1867 and 1901 and because most are accessible to the intermediate player, they will always find a place in the pianist’s heart. This does not mean that the music is only for the amateur; on the contrary, many of the world’s greatest pianists have recorded and programmed them.
The theme of the very first piece of the collection, Arietta (Little Song), was one of Grieg’s favourite melodies. The middle element consists of broken harmony shared between the hands, similar in texture and design to Schumann’s Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands and People), the opening piece from Kinderszenen, op. 15. Balancing the texture is one of the main challenges of the piece.
As though to frame the collection, Grieg reuses the melody from Arietta in the very last of the Lyric Pieces - Efterklang (Remembrances), this time as a waltz.
I hope you emjoy this subtle, beautiful melody!

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