DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

242 GRIEPENKERL GRIESBACH
note, and the dominant of the key, that can be
traced in some form or other in an extraordinarily
large number of his compositions, though
perhaps nowhere so prominently as in the
pianoforte concerto. (Many of the above par-
ticulars of Grieg's life are taken from a lecture
delivered in Elgin by the late Rev. W. A.
Gray, and reported in the Elgin Cmirant of
May 27, 1890. In the course of the lecture a
' Funeral Hymn,' in memory of the composer's
father, for four voices, was sung from MS. It
does not appear among the published works.)
Grieg's published compositions are as fol-
lows :
1. Four ClavierstUcke.
2. Four Songs for alto voice.
3. Tbree Poetieche Tonbildsr, pf.
4. Six Sonpa. ^
5. Four SoDgs, ' Melodien dea Herzens,' to wordB by H. C. Jindereen.
6. HuTnorealieii, pf. >
7. Pianoforte Sonata. E miuur.
8. Sonatas, pf. and vln.. F.
9. KomaDzen und Bailaden, pf.
' 10. Four Songs. Romanzen.'
11. Concert-overture, ' Ira Herbst.' orch. (and pf., 4 hands).
12. Lyrische Stilckchen. pf.
13. Sonata, pf. and vln., G.
14. Two Sj-mphonische StUcke, pf., 4 hands.
15. Roraanzen, pf,
16. Concerto, pf, and orch,, A minor,
17. Norwegische Volkslieder und Tanze, arranged for pf.
18. Eight Songs.
19. Bilder aus dem Volksleben, Huraoresken, pf,
20. ' Vor dem Klosterpforte.' solo, female choir and orch.
21. Four Songs.
22. 'Sigurd Jorsalfar,' pf.. 4 hands (see op. 56); the number 22
transferred to two choruses for male voices,
' 23. Peer Gynt,' suite No, 1, pf. , 4 hands.
24. Ballade, pf,
25. Five Songs,
26. Four Songs,
27. String quartet. G minor,
28. Albumblatter. pf.
29. Ijnprovisata on two Norwe^an songs, pf.
30. Album for male choir.
' 31. Landerkennung.' male choir and orch.
' 32. Der Einsame' (' Bergentrilckte'). baritone voice and orch.
33. Twelve Songs.
34. Two Elegiac Melodies for string orch.
35. Norwegische Tiinze, orch., and for pf, solo and daet,
36. Sonata, pf. and vcejio.
37. Walzer-Capricen, pf. solo and duet,
38. Neue Lyrische Stilckchen, pf,
39. Twelve Songs, •
40. ' AUB Holbergs Zeit," suite, pf, solo or string orch.
41. Transcription for pf. of his own songs.
' 42. Bcrgliot." hallad for declauiation with orch.
43. Lyrische Stilckchen, pf,
44. Songs, * Aus Fjeld und Fjord,'
45. Sonata, pf, and vln,, C minor.
46. Peer Gynt,' suite No. 1, orch.
47. Lyrische StUcke. pf,
48. Six Sengs,
49. Six Songs,
'
50. Scenes from Bjomson's Olav Trygvaaon,' solo, choir, and orch.
51. Romance and variations for 2 pf.
IS2. Transcription, pf,, of six songs.
53. Two Melodien for string orch.
54. Lyrische StUcke, pf,
• 65, Peer Gynt,' suite No, 2. orch.
' 66, Sigurd Jor8.alfar,' orch,
57. Lyrische StUcke, pf,
58. Five Songs-
59. Six Songs.
60. Five Songs.
61. Seven Children's Songs.
62. Lyrische Stilcke. pf.
63. Two Noriiische Weisen, string orch,
64. Symphonic Dances, pf. , 4
65. Lyrische StUcke. pf.
66. Norwegian Melodies, for pf.
'
67. Song-cycle. Garborg's Haugtussa.'
bands, and for string orch.
"Without opuB-number.
second pianoforte part to four sonatas of
(See also Musical Times, Feb. 1894 and Feb.
1898, p. 123.) M.
GRIEPENKERL, Friedrich Conrad, professor
at the Carolinum College in Brunswick,
born at Peine, near Hanover, in 1782 ; long
tutor in the Fellenberg Institution at Hofwyl in
the Canton of Berne ; died at Brunswick, April
6, 1849. He wrote Lehrhudi der .-Esthaik
(Brunswick, 1827), in which he applied Herbart's
philosophical theory to music and was the
;
author of the prelace to the excellent edition of
J. S. Bach'sinstrumental compositions, edited by
himself and Roitzsch, and published by Peters of
Leipzig. This work has made his name familiar
to many in England.
His son Wolfgang Robert, born May 4,
1810, at Hofwyl, studied at Brunswick and
Leipzig, was also an enthusiastic amateur, and
an ardent admirer of Meyerbeer's ' '
Huguenots
and the later works of Berlioz. He was teacher
of literature at the Military School of Brunswick
' from 1840 to 1847. He wrote Das Musikfest,
'
Oder die Beethovener' (18.38 and 1841) ; Ritter
Berlioz in Braunschweig' (1843); 'Die Oper
der Gegenwart' (1847); and two dramas,
'Robespierre' and 'Die Girondisten,' to which
Litolff composed overtures. He died at Bruns-
wick, Oct. 17, 1868. r. o.
GRIESBACH, John- Hexrt, bom at 'Wind-
sor, June 20, 1798, was eldest son of Justin
Christian Griesbach, violoncellist in Queen Charlotte's
band, and nephew to Friedrich Griesbach,
the oboe player. He studied music under his
uncle, George Leopold Jacob Griesbach, and at
twelve years of age was appointed violoncellist in
the Queen's band. He then studied for some
years under Kalkbrenner. On the breaking up of
Queen Charlotte's hand at her death he came to
London and appeared at concerts as a pianist.
In 1 822 he composed a symphony and a capriccio
for pianoforte and orchestra, and shortly afterwards
a second symphony for the Philharmonic
Society. Although he was after this time prin-
cipally engaged in tuition he found time to produce
mumerous compositions of various kinds,
and also to attain to no mean skill in astronomy,
painting in water-colours, entomology, and
mathematics. His principal compositions were
' Belshazzar's Feast, ' an oratorio, written in 1835
with a view to stage representation, but such
performances being interdicted he some years
afterwards remodelled the worlf, and it was per-
the Sacred
by fornjed, under the title of ' Daniel, '
Harmonic Society on June 30, 185'i ; Overture
and Music to Shake.speare's ' Tempest ' ;
' James
the First, or, The Roj-al Captive, ' operetta ;
' The
Goldsmith of West Cheap,' opera ;
' Eblis, ' opera
(unfinished); ' Raby Ruins,' musical drama;
several ovS-tures and other instrumental pieces,
anthems, songs, cantatas, etc. He also wrote
An Analysis of Musical Sounds (published),
and The Fundamental Elcnunts of Counterpoi7it,
The Acoustic Laws of Harmony, and
Tables showing the Variations of Musical Pitch
from the time of Handel to 1859 (unpublished).
He was fourteen times a director of the Philharmonic
Society. He died at Kensington,
Jan. 9, 1875. w. h. h.