Edvard Grieg plays Berceuse Op. 38 No. 1 in a 1906 recording

Around 1917, the American Piano Company licensed a number of significant early reproducing piano recordings from Ludwig Hupfeld AG in Leipzig, Germany, including this April 1906 Hupfeld recording of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, made just over a year before his death in September 1907. Grieg plays a very gentle selection, Berceuse, or “Cradle Song.“ It is the first of his Op. 38 “Lyric Pieces,“ published in 1883. In 1917 Ampico issued this recording as # 53933-H, with the expression translated for their then relatively new reproducing piano system. This video shows an original 1917 Ampico A roll heard on a 1929 Mason & Hamlin 5’8“ Ampico B that was restored in 2013 at Historic Pianos. Please visit for more information.