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Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.

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Grieg was born in Bergen and studied in Leipzig 1858-1862, then worked as a pianist and conductor in his home country (he founded a music association in Oslo in 1871), from the 1880s also abroad since he has been internationally regarded as a composer.

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His production includes a large number of lyrical pieces for piano, songs, orchestral suites, music for plays such as Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, the often played piano concerto in A minor, the melodrama Bergljot and chamber music. There is a weightlessness and a twist in Grieg’s music that makes it go straight in. Good examples are the hit songs from Peer Gynt: Anitra’s dance, Morning mood, Solveig’s song, In the Hall of the Mountain King… it’s hard to sit still.

After a successful career, he had to step down for health reasons and when his heart could no longer bear it, he past away. His funeral in 1907 was worthy of a national saint and gathered tens of thousands of people.

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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) had a divine sens

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The Many Musical Moods of Edvard Grieg

Oh, the many moods and stories Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg conjures in my mind, my heart. There’s the transcendent “Morning Mood” from his Peer Gynt Suite, the haunting yet hopeful “Last Spring.” I’ve sat in my car and wept to the wintry longing in his “Nocturne.” There’s the “March of the Dwarves” that evokes a Warner Bros cartoon so clearly I can almost see three mischievous rabbits bounding through a garden, an angry farmer running after them with his pitchfork. As a ballet dancer, I performed to Grieg’s “Holberg Suites,” which brought forth a story within a story. Then there’s his Piano Concerto in A minor, which is massive, thrilling, stirring, so much of a good thing, we’ll divide Grieg’s music into two essays and save the Piano Concerto for later.

My most unforgettable Grieg-induced mood and memory took place in 1985, in Africa. I was a new Peace Corps trainee, based in Lambaréné, Gabon, and we had a day off training to visit the famed Schweitzer Museum. Two dozen of us, trainees and teachers, loaded into four motor-powered pir

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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and pianist, and he composed 25 Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op. 17 in 1869. Grieg was an ardent supporter of Norwegian music, and he used Norwegian folk songs and dances as the basis for many of his compositions. He was raised in a musical family, and his mother, a pianist, taught him how to play the piano. When the internationally renowned Norwegian violinist Ole Bull heard Grieg play the piano, Ole Bull strongly encouraged Grieg’s parents to send their talented son to the prestigious Leipzig Conservatory. A few months later, Grieg was sent to study music at the Leipzig Conservatory (Grieg was 15 years old at the time).

Although Grieg studied with fine teachers at the Leipzig Conservatory, while he was there, his music and compositional style were largely shaped by German and Danish musicians. When Grieg was in his early 20s, he spent a summer with the violinist Ole Bull. Ole Bull was a strong advocate of Norwegian folk music, and under his tutelage, Grieg became very interested in Norwegian folk songs and Norweg