Per Nørgård's Hedda Gabler - Incidental Music and Suite (1993) for Viola, Harp and Piano. Programme note The music was composed for the BBC production of Henrik Ibsens´s famous play “Hedda Gabler”. For the production the director Deborah Warner changed the location from Bergen, Norway to Dublin – two cities with many things in common, both in size and atmosphere. All the movements are played attacca, as one movement, and the reason that I accepted this incidental music to be performed as a concert piece is that it has a unity – decided by Deborah Warner and me – always following the character of Hedda. In Fiona Shaw´s´ interpretation Hedda Gabler is just as ruthless as Ibsen created her – but also deeply felt, understood and shown as a victim of the suppressed role of women in the Victorian age. Therefore the associations to the salon music of the era are coloured with a strong expressionistic expression – the music being entirely created from the inner universe of the main character Hedda. Per Nørgård (1993)
| Arrangement | Harp, Piano, Piano Chamber, Viola |
| Genres | Film and TV, Post-1900 |
| Format | Score |
| Level | 4 |
| NumberOfPages | 46 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Edition Wilhelm Hansen |
| Contributors | Norgard, Per (Composer) |
| Language | Danish |
| ISBN | 9788759859650 |