What is Peer Gynt?
{{Infobox Play | name = Peer Gynt | image = Henrik-Klausen-Peer-Gynt-1876.jpg | image_size = | caption = Henrik Klausen as Peer (1876) | writer = [[Henrik Ibsen]] | chorus = | characters = | mute = | setting = | premiere = {{Start date|1876|02|24|df=yes}} | place = [[Oslo|Christiania]] | orig_lang = [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] | series = | subject = | genre = [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[verse drama and dramatic verse|dramatic poem]] converted into a [[Play (theatre)|Play]] | web = | playbill = | ibdb_id = | iobdb_id = }} '''Peer Gynt''' is a [[dramatic poem]] by [[Henrik Ibsen]], written in 1867. Ibsen based this work on [[Norse]] [[fairy tales]] written by [[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]]. Asbjørnsen had written these stories about 1848-1850. Ibsen wrote the poem to analyse and criticize the romantic nationalist movement that was present in [[Norway]] during that time. Originally, Peer Gynt was a poem, but Ibsen later adapted it to be a stage play. [[Edvard Grieg]] composed the original music for the stage. The first performance was on 24 February 1876, in Christiania, modern-day [[Oslo]]. The musical score for the play is made of 26 pieces. In 1888 and 1891, Grieg took eight pieces, and comined them into two [[suite (music)|suites]], of four pieces each. These are known as the [[Peer Gynt (Grieg)|Peer Gynt Suites]] today, and are widely known. Many [[movie]]s were made about the subject, the first in 1915. {{multistub|lit|performing-arts}} [[Category:19th-century plays]] [[Category:1860s poems]] [[Category:Norwegian literature]]