"Morning Mood" (Norwegian: Morgenstemning; German: Morgenstimmung) is a composition belonging to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt suite. Used often in television commercials and motion pictures, the piece depicts the rising of the sun. Next to In the Hall of the Mountain King, Morning Mood is Grieg's most known work. Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. ... Peer Gynt is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. ... In the Hall of the Mountain King (Norwegian: ) is a piece of orchestral music, Opus 23, composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsens play Peer Gynt, which premiered in Oslo on February 24, 1876. ...

Contrary to popular belief, it was not meant to depict a sunrise over the Norwegian fjords. It was actually meant to depict a sunrise over the Sahara Desert. Lysefjorden in Norway A fjord (pronounced FEE-ord or fyord, SAMPA: [fi:3:d] or [faI3:d]; sometimes written fiord) is a glacially overdeepened valley, usually narrow and steep-sided, extending below sea level and filled with salt water. ... The Sahara is the worlds second largest desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), located in northern Africa and is 2. ...

In popular culture

• Several episodes of the cartoon series The Simpsons employs a musical arrangement very similar to "Morning Mood" for short morning/sunrise sequences.
• "Morning Mood" was used in many episodes of the animated series Ren and Stimpy.
• In the 1957 made-for-television musical adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the music is played when the village awakens to find that the Piper has destroyed the rats which were plaguing Hamelin.
• 1998 "Ocean of Light" by In-Mood feat. Juliette is based on "Morning Mood"
• The main title of Day of the Tentacle uses this song.

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External links

• Free edition of Grieg's 'Morning Mood' (Sheet Music)
• Peer Gynt Suite No.1: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.