To the Rising Sun by Trygve Torjussen

I found a little known piece in a very old book to play for my grade 8 exam, and it's definately one of my favourites, despite not being too flashy like say, my chopin etude. I hope you like it as much as I do

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Music

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• classical
• Craig
• Christensen
• piano
• Torjussen
• Norwegian
• 20th
• century
• Canada

[elsieandandrew]

I am playing this as my upcoming exam!

[RhonaYoga]

I hope to get the nerve to play it for my church. The imagery I will use is the first new water out of Jerusalem that will flow out to clean the rivers & oceans that will have been polluted and poisoned. This is prophesized in Apocalypse when Jesus returns to set up God's kingdom & divine government of justice, righteousness & 1000 years of peace.

awesome glory & brilliance in those cords just like

thy will be done

in heaven as it will be on earth

thy kingdom come

the power & glory

forever...

[ralphnerin]

I love this! It was the only piece of music my mom could still remember from when she was a child and she would play it for us kids when we were growing up. It's simple and beautiful and you did a wonderful job!

[hilledais]

The name of this piece as shown in misleading -- it should be "Morning Mood". That may inform your interpretation to modulate volume into an early morning, then the awesome arrival of all that comes with full morning. Love the piece!

[melodicinsomniac]

1885-1977

[andrew4549]

This is the first piano piece I truly fell in love with when I was 12 years old. It had a magical quality to it that absolutely bewitched me. In the ensuing 55 years since then, I have never grown tired of playing this piece. Thank you for bringing back a fond memory.

[evangelinefyre]

Those tiny little thirty-second notes at the end should be more of a small blip into the next note, much like a grace note.

[oksanna88]

Anyone know when Torjussen lived?

[middleC17]

I just found this in some of my grandmother's pieces and wanted to see how it goes. Now I'm trying it! It's funny, because in the margin at one point she wrote "retard" instead of "ritard." I don't think I'll tell her.

[rosiegurlie18]

im playing this as well !!! Its so beautiful !!!

I play it a tad faster.. also it seems you play it quite loud