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Grieg, Edvard Hagerup : Klaverstykker efter egne sange  "Jeg elsker dig" Op.41-3

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Music ID : 21064
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:transcription
Total Playing Time:3 min 00 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Ueda, Yasushi

Last Updated: April 21, 2020
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Piano arrangement of 'I Love You' from the early song collection Melodies of the Heart, Op. 5-3 (composed in 1864). The original song was set to a poem from Andersen's lyrical poetry collection of the same name, and its first edition was published in 1865 in the poet's homeland, Copenhagen. Consequently, the lyrics of the original song are written in Danish. In this piano arrangement, the 22-bar section of the original song is arranged almost faithfully. The prelude features chromatic progressions reminiscent of Wagner. In the arrangement, this prelude is expanded from 3 bars to 6 bars. Following the section faithfully arranged from the original, the accompaniment transforms, paraphrasing the meaning of the lyrics, into arpeggiated figures resembling perpetuum mobile ('I think of you, always only of you'), and into a symphonic and grand sound ('However God may guide the fate of this life,' etc.), being completely recomposed into expressions unique to the piano.

Writer: Ueda, Yasushi
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