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In the Hall of the Mountain King — right-hand melody

Play Grieg’s famous creeping troll melody from Peer Gynt in A minor with your right hand.

Next stepsEdvard Grieg · Opening eight-bar theme in A minor · piano one handPiano · One hand · A minor · 4/4

108 beats per minute. Changing speed stops playback; press Play to start again.

Try it at the keyboard

  1. Start slowly and detached, like footsteps tiptoeing through a dark cave.
  2. Watch out for bar 2: the first three notes use D♯ and B, then the second half shifts down to D natural and B♭/G♯.
  3. Once every note is secure, try increasing the tempo slightly on a repeat — just like Grieg’s accelerando.

About this score

Transposed from B minor to A minor so the main theme uses white keys with only two chromatic bars.

Composed by Edvard Grieg (1875); source edition by Mutopia Project. Public domain composition and source edition. Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic.

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