Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

. He is widely considered one of the foremost

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composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of

Norwegian folk music Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pil ...

in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a

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, much as

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did in

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and

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in Bohemia. Grieg is the most celebrated person from the city of

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

, with numerous statues which depict his image, and many cultural entities named after him: the city's largest concert building (

Grieg Hall Grieg Hall ( no, Grieghallen) is a 1,500 seat concert hall located on Edvard Griegs' square in Bergen, Norway. Grieghallen was named in honor of Bergen-born composer Edvard Grieg, who served as music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ...

), its most advanced music school (

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) and its professional choir (Edvard Grieg Kor). The Edvard Grieg Museum at Grieg's former home

Troldhaugen Troldhaugen is the former home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg. Troldhaugen is located in Bergen, Norway and consists of the Edvard Grieg Museum, Grieg's villa, the hut where he composed music, and his and his wife's ...

is dedicated to his legacy.

Background

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in

, Norway (then part of Sweden–Norway). His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and the British Vice-Consul in Bergen; and Gesine Judithe Hagerup (1814–1875), a music teacher and daughter of solicitor and politician Edvard Hagerup. The family name, originally spelled Greig, is associated with the Scottish Clann Ghriogair (Clan Gregor). After the Battle of Culloden in Scotland in 1746, Grieg's great-grandfather, Alexander Greig (1739-1803),Nils Grinde
"Grieg, Edvard"
Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, accessed 11 November 2013 travelled widely before settling in Norway about 1770 and establishing business interests in Bergen. Grieg's paternal great-great-grandparents, John (1702-1774) and Anne (1704-1784), are buried in the abandoned churchyard of the ruinous Church of St Ethernan in

Rathen, Aberdeenshire Rathen is a parish and hamlet near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In Scottish Gaelic, its name means ''fort on the river''. Edvard Grieg was raised in a musical family. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play when he was aged six. He studied in several schools, including

Tanks Upper Secondary School Tank Upper Secondary School ( no, Tanks videregående skole) was an upper secondary school in the centre of Bergen, Norway. The school opened in 1850 as Tank School (''Den Tankske Skole''), funded by an endowment established by merchant Hans T ...

. During the summer of 1858, Grieg met the eminent Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, who was a family friend; Bull's brother was married to Grieg's aunt. Bull recognized the 15-year-old boy's talent and persuaded his parents to send him to the

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, the piano department of which was directed by

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. Grieg enrolled in the conservatory, concentrating on piano, and enjoyed the many concerts and recitals given in

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. He disliked the discipline of the conservatory course of study. An exception was the organ, which was mandatory for piano students. About his study in the conservatory, he wrote to his biographer, Aimar Grønvold, in 1881: "I must admit, unlike

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, that I left Leipzig Conservatory just as stupid as I entered it. Naturally, I did learn something there, but my individuality was still a closed book to me." During the spring of 1860, he survived two life-threatening

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and

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. Throughout his life, Grieg's health was impaired by a destroyed left lung and considerable deformity of his thoracic spine. He suffered from numerous respiratory infections, and ultimately developed combined lung and heart failure. Grieg was admitted many times to spas and

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both in Norway and abroad. Several of his doctors became his friends.

Career

During 1861, Grieg made his debut as a concert pianist in

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, Sweden. In 1862, he finished his studies in Leipzig and had his first concert in his home town, where his programme included

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's '' Pathétique'' sonata. Edvard en Nina Grieg 1899

In 1863, Grieg went to

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, Denmark, and stayed there for three years. He met the Danish composers J. P. E. Hartmann and

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. He also met his fellow Norwegian composer

Rikard Nordraak Rikard Nordraak (12 June 1842 – 20 March 1866) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known as the composer of the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". Biography Rikard Nordraak was born and grew up in Oslo, Norway. His family ...

(composer of the Norwegian national anthem), who became a good friend and source of inspiration. Nordraak died in 1866, and Grieg composed a funeral march in his honor. On 11 June 1867, Grieg married his first cousin, Nina Hagerup (1845–1935), a lyric soprano. The next year, their only child, Alexandra, was born. Alexandra died in 1869 from meningitis. During the summer of 1868, Grieg wrote his

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while on holiday in Denmark.

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gave the concerto its premiere performance on 3 April 1869 in the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen. Grieg himself was unable to be there due to conducting commitments in Christiania (now Oslo). During 1868, Franz Liszt, who had not yet met Grieg, wrote a testimonial for him to the Norwegian Ministry of Education, which resulted in Grieg's obtaining a travel grant. The two men met in

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in 1870. During Grieg's first visit, they examined Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 1, which pleased Liszt greatly. On his second visit in April, Grieg brought with him the manuscript of his Piano Concerto, which Liszt proceeded to sightread (including the orchestral arrangement). Liszt's rendition greatly impressed his audience, although Grieg said gently to him that he played the first movement too quickly. Liszt also gave Grieg some advice on orchestration (for example, to give the melody of the second theme in the first movement to a solo trumpet, which Grieg himself chose not to accept). In the 1870's he became friends with the poet

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguishe ...

who shared his interests in Norwegian self-government. Grieg set several of his poems to music, including ''Landkjenning'' and ''Sigurd Jorsalfar''. Eventually they decided on an opera based on King Olav Trygvason, but a dispute as to whether music or lyrics should be created first, led to Grieg being diverted to working on incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play '' Peer Gynt'', which naturally offended Bjørnson. Eventually their friendship was resumed. The incidental music composed for ''Peer Gynt'' at the request of the author, contributed to its success, and has separately become some of the composer's most familiar music arranged as orchestral Suites. Grieg had close ties with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Harmonien), and later became Music Director of the orchestra from 1880 to 1882. In 1888, Grieg met

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in Leipzig. Grieg was impressed by Tchaikovsky. Lamb cites David Brown's ''Tchaikovsky Remembered'' Tchaikovsky thought very highly of Grieg's music, praising its beauty, originality and warmth. On 6 December 1897, Grieg and his wife performed some of his music at a private concert at

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for

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and her court. Grieg was awarded two honorary doctorates, first by the

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in 1894 and the next from the

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in 1906.

Later years

The Norwegian government provided Grieg with a pension as he reached retirement age. During the spring of 1903, Grieg made nine 78-rpm

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ings of his piano music in Paris. All of these discs have been reissued on both LPs and CDs, despite limited fidelity. Grieg recorded

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music rolls for the Hupfeld Phonola piano-player system and

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reproducing system, all of which survive and can be heard today. He also worked with the

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for its 'Autograph Metrostyle' piano roll series wherein he indicated the tempo mapping for many of his pieces. In 1899, Grieg cancelled his concerts in France in protest of the

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, an antisemitic scandal that was then roiling French politics. Regarding this scandal, Grieg had written that he hoped that the French might, "Soon return to the spirit of 1789, when the French republic declared that it would defend basic human rights." As a result of his statements concerning the affair, he became the target of much French

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of that day. During 1906, he met the composer and pianist

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in London. Grainger was a great admirer of Grieg's music and a strong empathy was quickly established. In a 1907 interview, Grieg stated: "I have written Norwegian Peasant Dances that no one in my country can play, and here comes this Australian who plays them as they ought to be played! He is a genius that we Scandinavians cannot do other than love." Edvard Grieg died at the Municipal Hospital in Bergen, Norway, on 4 September 1907 at age 64 from heart failure. He had suffered a long period of illness. His last words were "Well, if it must be so." The funeral drew between 30,000 and 40,000 people to the streets of his home town to honor him. Obeying his wish, his own '' Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak'' was played with orchestration by his friend

Johan Halvorsen Johan Halvorsen (15 March 1864 – 4 December 1935) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Life Born in Drammen, he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life. He r ...

, who had married Grieg's niece. In addition, the ''Funeral March'' movement from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 was played. Grieg was

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in the first Norwegian

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opened in Bergen just that year, and his ashes were entombed in a mountain crypt near his house, Troldhaugen. After the death of his wife, her ashes were placed alongside his. Edvard Grieg and his wife were Unitarians and Nina attended the Unitarian church in Copenhagen after his death. A century after his death, Grieg's legacy extends beyond the field of music. There is a large sculpture of Grieg in

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, while one of the largest hotels in Bergen (his hometown) is named Quality Hotel Edvard Grieg and a large crater on the planet Mercury is named after Grieg.

Music

Some of Grieg's early works include a symphony (which he later suppressed) and a

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. He wrote three

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and a

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. Grieg composed the incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play '' Peer Gynt'', which includes the excerpts "

In the Hall of the Mountain King "In the Hall of the Mountain King" ( no, I Dovregubbens hall, , In the Dovre man's hall, link=no, italic=no) is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875 as incidental music for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen's 1867 ...

" and "

Morning Mood "Morning Mood" ( no, Morgenstemning i ørkenen, translation=Morning mood in the desert, link=no, italic=no) is part of Edvard Grieg's ''Peer Gynt'', Op. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, and was als ...

". In an 1874 letter to his friend Frants Beyer, Grieg expressed his unhappiness with "Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter", one of the movements in the '' Peer Gynt'' incidental music, writing "I have also written something for the scene in the hall of the mountain King – something that I literally can't bear listening to because it absolutely reeks of cow-pies, exaggerated Norwegian nationalism, and trollish self-satisfaction! But I have a hunch that the irony will be discernible." Grieg's ''

Holberg Suite The ''Holberg Suite'', Op. 40, more properly ''From Holberg's Time'' (Norwegian: ''Fra Holbergs tid''), subtitled "Suite in olden style" ( no, Suite i gammel stil, links=no, italics=no), is a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century ...

'' was originally written for the piano, and later arranged by the composer for string orchestra. Grieg wrote songs in which he set lyrics by poets Heinrich Heine,

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, Henrik Ibsen, Hans Christian Andersen,

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and others. Russian composer

Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; pl, Mikołaj Miąskowski, syn Jakóbowy; 20 April 18818 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is som ...

used a theme by Grieg for the variations with which he closed his Third String Quartet. Norwegian pianist

Eva Knardahl Eva Knardahl Freiwald (10 May 1927 – 3 September 2006) was a Norwegian pianist, with a noted career both as a child prodigy and adult performer. Her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12, in which she played three conce ...

recorded the composer's complete piano music on 13 LPs for BIS Records from 1977 to 1980. The recordings were reissued during 2006 on 12 compact discs, also on BIS Records. Grieg himself recorded many of these piano works before his death in 1907. Pianist

Bertha Tapper Bertha Johanne Feiring Maass Tapper (25 January 1859 - 2 September 1915) was a Norwegian composer, pianist, and teacher, best known for editing the piano works of Edvard Grieg for publication in America. She published under the name Bertha Feirin ...

edited Grieg’s piano works for publication in America by Oliver Ditson.

List of selected works

* Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7 * Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8 *Concert Overture ''

In Autumn ''In Autumn'', Op. 11, is a concert overture written by Edvard Grieg in 1865. History On a visit to Copenhagen, Grieg showed his overture to Niels Gade, who told him: "This is trash, Grieg; go home and write something better." So he arrange ...

'', Op. 11 * Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13 *

, Op. 16 * Incidental music to

's play ''

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'', Op. 22 * Incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ''Peer Gynt'', Op. 23 *'' Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song'' in G minor, Op. 24 * String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 *'' Two Elegiac Melodies'' for strings or piano, Op. 34 *Four ''Norwegian Dances'' for piano four hands, Op. 35 (better known in orchestrations by

Hans Sitt Hans Sitt (born Jan Hanuš Sitt on 21 September 1850, Prague – 10 March 1922, Leipzig), was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin. Most of the orches ...

and others) * Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36 *''

'' for piano, later arr. for string orchestra, Op. 40 * Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 * ''Peer Gynt'' Suite No. 1, Op. 46 *'' Lyric Suite'' for orchestra, Op. 54 (orchestration of four ''

Lyric Pieces ''Lyric Pieces'' ( no, Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 ( Op. 12) to 1901 (Op. 71). The collection includes several of his best known pieces, ...

'') * ''Peer Gynt'' Suite No. 2, Op. 55 *Four '' Symphonic Dances'' for piano, later arr. for orchestra, Op. 64 *'' Haugtussa'' Song Cycle after

Arne Garborg Arne Garborg (born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg) (25 January 1851 – 14 January 1924) was a Norwegian writer. Garborg championed the use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk, or New Norwegian), as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into ...

, Op. 67 *Sixty-six ''

'' for piano in ten books, Opp. 12, 38, 43, 47, 54, 57, 62, 65, 68 and 71, including: ''Arietta'', ''To the Spring'', ''Little Bird'', ''Butterfly'', ''Notturno'', '' Wedding Day at Troldhaugen'', ''At Your Feet'', ''Longing For Home'', ''March of the Dwarfs'', ''Poème érotique'' and ''Gone''. *In The Hall of the Mountain King

References

Notes Bibliography *

External links

Grieg 2007 Official Site for 100th year commemoration of Edvard GriegThe Grieg archives at Bergen Public LibraryTroldhaugen Museum, Grieg's home
*
Edvard Grieg statue
by Sigvald Asbjørnsen

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*Films about Grieg's life
''What Price Immortality?'' (1999)Edvard Grieg picture collection at flickr commons
''Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography''

Recordings by Grieg

Papillon – Lyric Piece, Op. 43, no. 1
as recorded by Grieg on piano roll, 17 April 1906, Leipzig
Info

Recordings of Grieg works

Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 1 in F major, I. Allegro con brio – Gregory Maytan (violin), Nicole Lee (piano)

Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 1 in F major, II. Allegretto quasi Andantino – Gregory Maytan (violin), Nicole Lee (piano)

Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 1 in F major, III. Allegro molto vivace – Gregory Maytan (violin), Nicole Lee (piano)

Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 3 in C minor, I. Allegro molto ed appasionato – Gregory Maytan (violin), Nicole Lee (piano)

Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 3 in C minor, II. Allegretto espressivo all Ramanza – Gregory Maytan (violin), Nicole Lee (piano)

Edvard Grieg, Sonata No. 3 in C minor, III. Allegro animato – Gregory Maytan (violin), Nicole Lee (piano)

Music scores

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