Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson . The incidental music was first performed in Christiania on 10 April 1872. The suite was premiered in Oslo on 5 November 1892 and revised by the composer the same year.The suite is in nine parts three of which are more widely known than the remainder (these three are the only purely instrumental numbers).