''Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren'' (''Edvard Grieg. The Man and the Artist'') is a biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, written by

Finn Benestad Finn Benestad (30 October 1929, Kristiansand – 30 April 2012, Kristiansand) was a Norwegian musicologist and music critic. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1998, and is probably best known for his long-term research o ...

and

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe (10 December 1926 – 1 February 2013) was a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of professor. His research mainl ...

in 1980. The book treats the life and works of Edvard Grieg, and includes a comprehensive list of Grieg's works with

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Edition history

The book earned Benestad and Schjelderup-Ebbe the ''Edvard Grieg Prize'' in 1981. The biography, originally written in

Norwegian language Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regio ...

, was translated into Russian in 1986 by Nicolay Mochov. An English edition, ''Edvard Grieg. The Man and the Artist'', came in 1988, translated by William H. Halverson and Leland B. Sateren and published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln/London. A German edition was published in 1993. A second, revised edition was issued in 1990. Changes in the second edition include material based on a large collection of Grieg's manuscripts and letters rediscovered in

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in 1984, saved from

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in the 1930s.

References

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