Talk:Peer Gynt/Archive 1

Archive 1

Confusion

Wow! Peer Gynt does indeed meet three amorous dairy maids, but the identification of these presented in the article I've never heard of before. Bøygen, in particular, is a supernatural being trying to tempt Peer into choosing the easy path, not a dairy maid!

German/Norwegian lyrics

Does anyone know what language the sung parts are in? - Mark McCartney (talk) 02:53, 2005 Apr 30 (UTC)

Norwegian, presumably. – Smyth\^talk 20:41, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They were written in Norwegian but all too often are sung in German; though Grieg travelled and saw his works performed widely in Germany, the songs were ultimately written to be set for the intonation of Norwegian; I never can get used to Solveig's Song in German.Skookum1 21:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Åses død - is that the right spelling?

I've added the reference to Aase's Death, which is also widely featured in various soundtracks. My Norwegian's pretty rusty so I'm not sure that død (death) is the right word in the title.

I think Wedding Day at Troldhaugen is common in film too (although it's not formally part of the suites it's on a recording of music written for Peer Gynt); also Anitra's Dance.Skookum1 21:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Åses død is the correct Norwegian spelling. Sverre 23:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hindi Version

Recently done at National School of Drama, Delhi as Gappu Gope Gappangamdas( totally indianised).

The Son and mother relationship part is really overdone !!

The sorrow in his life seems very contrived in this latest depiction.

I just removed the reference to the hindi production entirely. It doesn't seem very notable, and was unclear both in grammar and content. It seemed to indicate that the production closed before it opened, which doesn't make any sense. --Squigish 01:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Split Grieg section

I suggested splitting the section on Grieg's music becauase most pieces of music of that amount of fame have their own articles, and the material on it could easily be expanded. Lbark 03:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Agree. SonoftheMorning 12:05, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree too...

I also agree Njál 02:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree. --Methegreat 01:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree. The reason stumbled upon this was because i was looking for info about the song itself!

Adaptation

The final entry (2007) in the Adaptations section appears to be more of a shameless encyclopedial plug rather than useful information... But I didn't want to delete it without any discussion. Patrick Lucas 23:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Peer Gynt, 21st Century Man

A film version was made in 2006 which appears to be a French-German production set in the modern day. Info via IMDB, trailer via YouTube. Asat 04:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

The Movements of the Suite?

I haven't found a complete list of the movements in the Peer Gynt suite in either the page about Grieg or Peer Gynt. I am not going to put them down myself because I am not sure if I have got it right, but this is what i think the movements are: 1. The Death of Ase 2. Morning (I'm pretty sure it's not morning mood, as the grieg page says... maybe I am wrong) 3. Anitra's Dance 4. In the hall of the mountain king —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.241.185 (talk) 14:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Television Version

I saw a version on Public TV (USA) in the 1970s. I don't recall anything else of this, other than it was filmed and performed on a sparse sound stage and that it was quite good, to my opinion. I only mention this because the article mentions that there had not been a television version, and this version was clearly for TV only.

198.150.12.31 18:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)dms