Morning Mood

'Morning mood in the desert')[citation needed] is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op.

23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, and was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No.

Unusually, the climax occurs early in the piece at the first forte which signifies the sun breaking through.

It is orchestrated for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and string section.

The piece depicts the rising of the sun during Act 4, scene 4, of Ibsen's play, which finds Peer Gynt stranded in the Moroccan desert after his companions took his yacht and abandoned him there while he slept.