Ballade in the Form of Variations

Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song in G minor, Op. 24, is a large scale work for piano by Edvard Grieg. It is in the form of theme and variations, the theme being the Norwegian folk song Mountain Song. A performance usually lasts around 20 minutes.

The Ballade was one of the works played by Percy Grainger at his 1901 London debut at Steinway Hall. This was four years before he met Grieg, who was to become Grainger's greatest champion.

The Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt made an arrangement of the Ballade for orchestra, which, thought to be lost for several years, was found in the early 1990s.

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