Sørgemarsj (til minne om Rikard Nordraak)

Edvard Grieg composed this funeral march in memory of Rikard Nordraak who died i Berlin in 1866. The work present both pompous and magnificent thems as well as melancholic melodies. The solemn funeral march is a typical national romantic work. This instrumentation was written in 2018 in conjunction with the 175th Anniversary of Edvard Grieg’s birth.