The "definitive" version was defined by Edvard Grieg when he wrote the Peer Gynt suite.
You actually think that some wanky hair metal band using maybe 1% of the original and 99% wall of noise with weedly-weedly guitar is a "definitive" version of a piece of classical music?
No, I meant the definitive version of Savatage's song called Hall of the Mountain King is their studio version, the title track of the album cover I posted.
Yes, Peer Gynt is more wonderful to some people, I understand that.
My mother loved it & the elementary schoolteacher who taught my class about it loved it.
And yes, personally I 'd rather listen to the psycho METAL song with Jon Oliva's wall of synths & Chris Oliva's shtedding on guitar!!
Chris Oliva RIP
To you it's wheedly noise, to me it's beautiful.
...but don't worry about it, I'm INSANE. That's why this song is so appealing to me.
It's
INSANE too!!!