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Most of you know this music, but probably don't know what it is or where it's from. Edvard Grieg composed incidental music to Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt", a story about a despicable human being who later finds a kind of redemption.

This is how Edvard Grieg composed this music and how it was meant to be performed. Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" was a grand spectacle, and Grieg composed music to enhance to mood, meaning, and intensity of Ibsen's words. For context, the main character, Peer Gynt, seduced the daughter of the Mountain King, and the trolls who live under the mountain are furious about this. These are they lyrics, Norwegian first, then English.

I Dovregubbens Hall
Slagt ham! Kristenmands søn har dåret
Dovregubbens veneste mø!
Slagt ham!
Slagt ham!

Må jeg skjære ham i fingeren?
Må jeg rive ham i håret?
Hu, hej, lad mig bide ham i låret!
Skal han lages til sod og sø?
Skal han steges på spid eller brunes i gryde?
Isvand i blodet!


In the Hall of the Mountain King

Slay him! The Christian man's son has seduced
The fairest maid of the Mountain King!
Slay him!
Slay him!

May I hack him on the fingers?
May I tug him by the hair?
Hu, hey, let me bite him in the haunches!
Shall he be boiled into broth and bree to me?
Shall he roast on a spit or be browned in a stewpan?
Ice to your blood!

Music of this quality is majestic and our heritage, and you can blame jews that we have lost it.