Norwegischer komponist edvard grieg biography

  • He lived and worked at Troldhaugen, a villa outside of Bergen.
  • Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist.
  • Edvard Grieg, norwegischer Komponist, studierte am Leipziger Konservatorium und bei Niels Gade in Kopenhagen und erhielt entscheidende Anregungen von dem.

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    Edvard Grieg

    born: 15 June 1843

    died: 4 September 1907

    country: Norway

    Edvard Hagerup Grieg. Norwegian of Scottish descent. Studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Much influenced by Robert Schumann. Based between 1863 and 1867 in Copenhagen. Here he came into close contact with Niels Gade, Hans Christian Andersen and the short-lived Norwegian poet-composer Rikard Nordraak. With their encouragement, Grieg evolved a nationalist style of music with an intense awareness of his country’s history and folk-song heritage.

    As a composer, Grieg does not sit on the summit of Mount Olympus with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and their ilk, but he certainly merits a comfortable dwelling on the slopes. Unusually for a ‘Great Composer’, his reputation does not rely on lengthy operas, ballets, symphonies, oratorios and the like. Grieg is the miniaturist composer par excellence. Though he tried his hand at larger forms—there are sonatas for piano, violin and cello, a quartet,

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    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg

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    Edvard Grieg, ca. 1903. Foto: ukjent / Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek.

    Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) from Bergen is our most renowned and prominent composer. He was the first composer to place Norway on the musical world map.

    He lived and worked at Troldhaugen, a villa outside of Bergen.

    Edvard Grieg had his international breakthrough with his Piano Concerto in A minor, a work which is performed all over the world. He wrote more than 60 lyric pieces, most of them at Troldhaugen, and he published several collections of folk songs, dances and folk tunes.

    Edvard Grieg lived at Troldhaugen with his wife, singer Nina Grieg. They lived there in the summers, right up to 1907 when Grieg died. Nina Grieg passed away in 1935.

    Famous compositions: "Concerto in A minor", "In the Hall of the Mountain King", "Morning Mood", "The Holberg Suite".

    Edvard Grieg, 1854.. Foto: Carl Anderson / Bergen Offent

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    Norwegischer komponist edvard grieg biography

    Composers / Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) – a Norwegian composer, dirigent and pianist.

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    • The greatest representative of the Norwegian national school in music. He was born in Bergen, where at the age of six he began learning piano with his mother. For Grieg, one of the most important events in his musical life was a meeting, in the summer of 1858, in Landås, with the Norwegian violin virtuoso Ole Bull, who quickly spotted the boy’s talent and encouraged him to pursue further studies at the Leipzig Conservatory.

    Thus from 1858 to 1862, Grieg studied in Leipzig composition (Carl Reinecke), harmony and counterpoint (Moritz Hauptmann, Ernst Friedrich Richter) and piano (Ignaz Moscheles).

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