Geirr Tveitt - Selected Works

Selected Works

The major part of Tveitt's scores are published by the Norwegian Music Information Centre, and the archives of the Society of Norwegian Composers.

• Baldur's Dreams - Music from the ballet
• Basun for tenor voice and orchestra (1971)
• Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Op. 5 (1927)
• Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra (This work exists only on a 1947 recording, with Tveitt himself playing the piano part.)
• Concerto No. 4 for piano and orchestra, Op. 130 - 'Aurora Borealis' (Nordljus / Northern Lights) (piano part reconstructed from full orchestral parts and a recording)
• Concerto No. 5 for piano and orchestra, Op. 156 (1954)
• Concerto No. 1 for Hardanger fiddle and orchestra
• Concerto No. 2 for Hardanger fiddle and orchestra - 'Three Fjords'
• Concerto No. 2 for harp and orchestra
• Dragaredokko, opera
• Fifty Hardanger Tunes, Op. 150 - arranged for piano
• Four-part Inventions in Lydian, Dorian, and Phyrgian, Op. 4 for piano
• Halldor Meland
• A Hundred Hardanger Tunes, Op. 151 - Suite No. 1
• A Hundred Hardanger Tunes, Op. 151 - Suite No. 2
• A Hundred Hardanger Tunes, Op. 151 - Suite No. 4
• A Hundred Hardanger Tunes, Op. 151 - Suite No. 5
• Jeppe, opera
• Nykken (The Water Sprite), symphonic poem for large orchestra
• Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 129, 'Sonata Etere'
• Prillar - Suite in Norwegian modes, 1931
• Sun God Symphony for orchestra (abridged version of Baldur's Dreams)
• Symphony No. 1 'Christmas', 1958. (Reconstructed for the 2008 Bergen Festival.)
• Telemarkin - Cantata for voice and orchestra
• The Turtle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. Text from Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
• Three-part Inventions in Lydian, Dorian, and Phrygian, Op. 3 for piano
• 12 Two-part Inventions in Lydian, Dorian, and Phrygian, Op. 2 for piano (1930)
• Variations on a Folk song from Hardanger, for two pianos and orchestra (1949)