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WorksheetsPeer Gynt Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Where did Edvard Grieg live?
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Who was Norway's greatest playwrite?
Peer Gynt
Henrik Isben
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt is basically about...
a anti-hero's fall and redemption
Grieg and Isben's adventures in Norway
Codfish
The story of Peer Gynt is based on...
Norwegian fairy tales and stories
A real person named Peer Gynt
Edvard Grieg's childhood
Who studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory?
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt
Henrik Isben
When did Peer Gynt premiere?
1870
1876
1873
What did Edvard Grieg later do with the music of Peer Gynt?
Combined his favorite 4 movements into a suite
Burned it
Made it his personal theme music
What kind of person is Peer Gynt?
A musical genius
A scoundrel and womanizer (not a very nice guy)
A well-mannered Norwegian prince
What is happening in The Hall of the Mountain King?
Peer Gynt is carried into the troll kingdom and escapes by running away
He is gallivanting around the deserts of Morocco
He is attending a troll wedding
Henrik Isben wanted some of Peer Gynt's music to draw on traditional melodies of different places in the world. Edvard Grieg wanted...
to write music from his own head.
to travel to those places and learn how to compose that kind of music.
to use music he had already written.
to write music for codfish.
