Edvard Grieg
15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, widely regarded as the leading figure of Norwegian Romantic music. He drew on Norwegian folk music in works such as the Piano Concerto in A minor, the Lyric Pieces for piano, and the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt.
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Life events
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen into a merchant family; his mother, a pianist, gave him his first music lessons.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgOn the recommendation of violinist Ole Bull, the fifteen-year-old Grieg enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg spent formative years in Copenhagen, where composers Niels Gade and Rikard Nordraak encouraged his interest in a distinctly Nordic musical style.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg married his first cousin, the soprano Nina Hagerup, who became the foremost interpreter of his songs.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg wrote his only piano concerto, which premiered in Copenhagen in 1869 and became one of the most popular concertos in the repertoire.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, including 'Morning Mood' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King', premiered in Christiania (Oslo).
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg wrote the Holberg Suite, originally for piano and later arranged for string orchestra, to mark the bicentenary of the writer Ludvig Holberg.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg and his wife settled at Troldhaugen, the villa outside Bergen that remained his home for the rest of his life and is now a museum.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrieg died at a hospital in Bergen at the age of 64 after a long decline in health; his ashes were interred in a cliff tomb at Troldhaugen.
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