March of the Trolls (Trolltog), Op. 54 No. 3 by Edvard Grieg: play it with falling notes in your browser, on your computer keys, a touch screen or a MIDI keyboard. It is part of Klaviero Premium, and 49 pieces are free. The chart has 2,184 notes over 3:13, peaks at 16.4 notes per second, and Klaviero rates it tier 5 of 5.
Troldtog, also spelled Trolltog and translated as March of the Trolls, is No. 3 in Book V of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces, Op. 54; the edition this chart comes from calls it March of the Dwarfs. The Lyric Pieces are 66 short works for solo piano, published in ten books between 1867 (Op. 12) and 1901 (Op. 71), and March of the Trolls is one of the best known of them, with Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, To Spring and Butterfly. Book V was composed between 1889 and 1891 and published in 1891. Its six pieces are Shepherd's Boy, Norwegian March, March of the Trolls, Notturno, Scherzo and Bell Sound, and the first four were later orchestrated as the Lyric Suite, with Grieg and Anton Seidl both involved. The chart is 2,184 notes over 3:13. It averages 11.3 notes per second and the busiest 25 seconds, 2:34 to 2:59, reach 16.4. The right hand plays 61% of the notes. The range runs from A1 to B6, and 40 notes fall outside a 61-key keyboard.
March of the Trolls, Op. 54 No. 3, one of the best known of Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
It runs at about 11.3 notes per second and peaks at 16.4. The right hand plays 61% of the 2,184 notes and the left 39%. The notes run A1 to B6, 5.2 octaves, which is past what a 61-key board reaches at one end or the other. Klaviero rates it tier 5 of 5.
Composer
Edvard Grieg
Title
Troldtog (March of the Dwarfs) · Op. 54, No. 3
Catalogue
Op. 54, No. 3
Period
Romantic
Notes
2,184
Length
3:13
Peak density
16.4 notes per second
Difficulty
tier 5 of 5
Access
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