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In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Norwegian: I Dovregubbens hall, lit. 'In the Dovre man's hall') is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875 as incidental music for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen 's 1867 play Peer Gynt .
The album's title was a nod to Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and to a Portobello Road cafe called The Mountain Grill (now closed), frequented by the band and their contemporaries from the Ladbroke Grove scene in the early 1970s.
In the Hall of the Mountain King (I Dovregubbens hall) Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter (Dans av Dovregubbens datter) Peer Gynt hunted by the trolls (Peer Gynt jages av troll) Peer Gynt and the Boyg (Peer Gynt og Bøygen) Act III Prelude: Deep in the Forest (Dypt Inne I Barskogen) Solveig's Song (Solvejgs sang) The Death of Åse (Åses ...
The Pied Piper is first spotted working magic in Hamelin by a disabled boy, Paul, and playing his signature tune "In the Hall of the Mountain King."Paul tells his best friend, the schoolteacher Truson (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Piper), who is skeptical.
The 1957 made-for-TV movie musical The Pied Piper of Hamelin uses Grieg's music almost exclusively, with "In the Hall of the Mountain King" being the melody that the Piper (Van Johnson) plays to rid the town of rats.
The follow-up, "In the Hall of the Mountain King", by Edvard Grieg, reached No. 48 on the chart, [4] with guitarist Joe Moretti having replaced Green who had joined Georgie Fame's Blue Flames. [2] It was not broadcast on BBC radio, because of the Corporation's policy, initiated by Sir Arthur Bliss, of banning pop versions of classical tunes. [1]
The second disc consists primarily of a show at The California Hall on July 28, 1966 that had first seen release in 1984 as Cheaper Thrills, with the final track "Hall Of The Mountain King" taken from a KQED TV broadcast on April 25, 1967. [1] [2]
Mountain King may refer to: "In the Hall of the Mountain King", a musical composition by Edvard Grieg "The Mountain King" , 2008; Mountain King, 1983; Mountain King Studios, a video game developer; King asleep in mountain, a character archetype in folklore and mythology