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	Grieg07 - English - Home
		1907 is the day when Edvard Grieg died, and in September the occation is marked by a two week long festival in Bergen, the hometown of the well-known composer.
		This will be the highlight of the official Edvard Grieg commemorational events in Norway, including the opening of the exhibition The Sound of Norwegian Spring, The Symposium Music and Identity, and ceveral concerts celebrating the composer.
		In connection with the celebration of Grieg's 164th birthday, MIC Norway and Grieg 07 arranged the seminar "Culture, humanism and politics".
	eng.grieg07.no (321 words)

	Grieg - MSN Encarta
		Born in Bergen on June 15, 1843, Edvard Hagerup Grieg was taught the piano by his mother, a professional pianist, and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory.
		Grieg was encouraged to write music by the Danish composer Niels Gade; his interest in Norwegian folk music was awakened by the Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak.
		Grieg's advocacy of a school of music based on Norwegian folk music met with opposition from conservative musicians and critics, and his own works were at first slow in gaining recognition.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573693/Grieg_Edvard_Hagerup.html (282 words)

	Edvard Hagerup Grieg - LoveToKnow 1911
		EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG (1843-1907), Norwegian musical composer, was born on the 15th of June 1843 in Bergen, where his father, Alexander Greig (sic), was English consul.
		The first and second of Grieg's violin sonatas are agreeable, so free and artless is the flow of their melody.
		Billow called Grieg the "Chopin of the North." The phrase is an exaggeration rather than an expression of the truth, for the range of the appeal in Chopin is far wider, nor has the national movement inaugurated by Grieg shown promise of great development.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GR/GRIEG_EDVARD_HAGERUP.htm (738 words)

	Edvard Grieg
		Grieg was not extremely renowned as a concert pianist during his time, though he was always favourable and welcomed in Europe.
		Grieg was primarily a miniaturist - his main strength is devoted to small forms with simple plots, as shown in most of his piano pieces.
		Grieg was often inspired by the rich cultural heritage of his beloved homeland, and he transferre such inspiration into pure, beautiful melodies.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/9981/grieg.html (526 words)

	Edvard Grieg - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843–September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.
		Grieg was born in Bergen, and was of partial Scottish descent.
		Edvard and Nina went to Rome and were invited to meet the enthusiastic Franz Liszt, who expressed his appreciation for Grieg's piano concerto, and even sight read it.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=9514 (619 words)

	Edvard Grieg — Biography of Norway's Greatest Composer
		Grieg's style was based on the German romantic tradition of music but bit by bit national awareness developed within him, coupled with a growing need to create a typical Norwegian style of music.
		The project was abandoned, but Grieg's dramatic talents were put to a new test when Henrik Ibsen asked him to write the incidental music to "Peer Gynt." This was no easy task for Grieg, but the music he wrote became one of the major works of the 1870s.
		Edvard Grieg's goal was to create a national form of music which could give the Norwegian people an identity, and in this respect he was an inspiration to other composers.
	www.mnc.net /norway/GRIEG.HTM (2282 words)

	Nettbiblioteket - Griegsamlingen - Intro
		Griegs boksamling, Omfatter musikkteoretisk litteratur, biografier, romaner, dikt; bla.
		Konsertprogrammer, fra konserter Grieg hørte i studietiden i Leipzig, og fra konserter hvor Edvard Grieg (og ofte Nina) selv opptrådte.
		Biografier og faglige publikasjoner om Edvard Grieg og musikken hans.
	nettbiblioteket.no /grieg-samlingen/grieg_samlingen_intro.html (500 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Edvard Hagerup Grieg
		Grieg was born was born in Bergen, Norway on June 15, 1843.
		Grieg was considered a lazy and indifferent pupil in school, and his compositions were ignored.
		Grieg composed 22 pieces for the play, which was performed in 1876.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Grieg.html (367 words)

	The Edvard Grieg Biography Page on Classic Cat
		Grieg was born in Bergen, and was of partial Scottish descent; the original family name was spelled "Greig".
		Grieg enrolled in the conservatory, concentrating on piano, and enjoyed the numerous concerts and recitals given in Leipzig.
		Edvard Grieg died in the autumn of 1907, aged 64, after a long period of illness.
	www.classiccat.net /grieg_eh/biography.htm (1054 words)

	Grieg, Edvard Hagerup. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Grieg developed a strongly nationalistic style which made him known as “the Voice of Norway.” He received piano lessons from his mother and later studied at the Leipzig Conservatory.
		Influenced by N. Gade, Grieg at first wrote in the idiom of German romanticism, but after 1864, when the composer Richard Nordraak (1842–65) introduced him to Norwegian folk music, he turned to the heritage of his own country.
		In 1869, Grieg established his fame as a leading composer with his Concerto in A Minor for piano and orchestra, appearing himself as the solo pianist in its first performance.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/Grieg-Ed.html (277 words)

	Edvard Grieg
		Grieg was the first international Scandanavian composer of genius, whose influence, although considerable, is but little appreciated today.
		The dedication to his brother, John Grieg, who was himself a keen amateur cellist, was doubtless intended as a reconciliation, for the two had not been on good terms for some time.
		The coda of the first movement quotes from the Concerto, and the basis of the second movement is the main theme from Grieg's 'Sigurd Jorsalfar' music of 1872; the nature of the finale is also presaged in the G minor String Quartet.
	www.guildmusic.com /composer/griege.htm (282 words)

	Edvard Grieg Society - About Edvard Grieg
		Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is the very symbol of Norway in the world of music.
		Edvard Grieg was born on June 15, 1843, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway and died in Bergen on September 4, 1907.
		From 1866 to 1874, Grieg resided in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, where he worked as a private teacher and a conductor and served as one of the co-founders of a short-lived Academy of Music.
	www.edvardgriegsociety.org /abouteg.html (472 words)

	Nettbiblioteket - Grieg Archives - Intro
		Grieg's score collection of his own and other composers' work; many with personal dedications to Grieg.
		Documentation of the 150th anniversary of Edvard Grieg's birth.
		Includes recordings of Edvard Grieg performing at the piano and recordings of his romances with texts in a number of languages.
	www.bergen.folkebibl.no /grieg-samlingen/engelsk/grieg_intro_eng.html (684 words)

	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Profile: Edvard Grieg
		Edvard Grieg was descended from Alexander Grieg, a Scotsman who settled in Bergen in the mid 18th century.
		Grieg's work was admired by composers as widely different as Liszt, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky — who met the Norwegian and described him as a man ‘of uncommon charm, blue eyes, not very large, but irresistibly fascinating.'
		Grieg was a musical patriot, and like many other nationalist composers, turned for inspiration to native folk song and dance, and this flavour flows steadily through nearly everything he wrote.
	www.lessontutor.com /bf_grieg.html (1556 words)

	Edvard and Nina Grieg
		Edvard Grieg (June 15, 1843-September 4, 1907), considered Norway's greatest composer, was the first to create an internationally celebrated body of musical works inspired by the folk-heritage and culture of Norway.
		Edvard was the fourth of five children born in Bergen, Norway to Alexander Grieg, a North Sea merchant, and Gesine Judith Hagerup, a concert pianist, piano teacher, composer, and playwright.
		Grieg began to accept that the difference between what he hoped to achieve as a composer and what he did in fact produce was not Nina's fault, but was conditioned by personal frailty and other unavoidable constraints upon his life.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/edvardgrieg.html (3446 words)

	Edvard Grieg
		Grieg was only 25 when he created one of his world famous masterpieces, the Piano Concerto in A Minor which can be heard in the soundtrack to Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958).
		Grieg's most advanced harmonies can be heard in his Norwegian Peasant Dances and Tunes, Op.
		Grieg's many volumes of Lyric Pieces all contain brilliant character studies that have found their way into a few films, such as the Lyric Pieces, Op.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P170572 (344 words)

	Grieg Society
		The Edvard Grieg Society was formed in early 2005 for the purpose of making the life and music of Grieg better know to the general public as well as to promote Nordic music in general.
		The first years’ programming included an all day Grieg Festival with Finn Benestad from Bergen, the foremost expert on Grieg, as one the highlights.
		Grieg, the man, and his relationship to folk music and folk culture.
	s142205239.onlinehome.us /Norway/index_files/Page447.htm (218 words)

	Edvard Grieg biography - 8notes.com
		Grieg attained numerous concerts in Leipzig, but disliked the dicipline of the conservatory and found it little inspiring.
		GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16 For Piano.
		Edvard Hagerup Grieg: Piano Concerto Composed by Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907).
	www.8notes.com /biographies/grieg.asp (837 words)

	Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edvard Hagerup Grieg began taking music lessons from his mother at the age of six.
		Grieg wrote his first set of miniature pieces for the piano, The Lyric Pieces in 1867.
		Ultimately, Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a great Norwegian composer who stuck to his own style and kept his distance from larger forms of musical expression like symphonies and operas, he stayed active throughout his lifetime up until his death.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/G/EdvardGrieg.html (469 words)

	Edvard Grieg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The idea of an art and especially of a music which fully expressed the national character reached its fullest prominence in the latter half of the 19th century, during which time a considerable body of Norwegian folk music was collected and published.
		Between 1858-62 Grieg studied at the music conservatory in Leipzig, and his earliest works clearly belong in the tradition of German Romanticism.
		Grieg participated actively in the musical life of Christiania (Oslo) and Bergen; and as a pianist, conductor and composer he undertook several highly successful concert tours of Europe.
	www.pluto.no /OFO/CD/Grieg_Bio.html (302 words)

	Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto In A minor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edvard Grieg: Piano concerto in A minor, op.
		One of the Romantic movement's most frequently performed concertos, it is the work of Grieg's youth (1868), strongly characterised by a sprightly rhythmic, melodic and harmonic imagination.
		Grieg's model was undoubtedly Schumann's piano concerto, a work which had made an "unforgettable impression" on him the first time he heard it, played by Clara Schumann, in Leipzig in 1858.
	www.pluto.no /ofo/CD/Grieg_PianoConcert.html (741 words)

	Edvard Hagerup Grieg Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen on June 15, 1843.
		In 1865 Nordraak and Grieg were among the founders of the Euterpe Society to promote the performance of new Scandinavian music.
		Grieg built a house at Troldhaugen in 1885 and there passed his later years almost entirely in composition.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/edvard-hagerup-grieg (725 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Grieg's own performances of Norwegian music, often with his wife, the singer Nina Hagerup, established him as a leading figure in the music of his own country, bringing subsequent collaboration in the theatre with Bjornson and with Ibsen.
		Grieg collaborated with the dramatist Bjornson in the play Sigurd Jorsalfar, for which he provided incidental music, and still more notably with Ibsen in Peer Gynt.
		Grieg's three violin sonatas remain a part of standard romantic repertoire, revealing his mastery of harmonic colour in the clearest of textures; the third of these, in C minor, was completed in 1887 and is particularly striking.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/grieg.html (473 words)

	Edvard Grieg
		The Grieg family were of Scottish origin, but the composer's grandfather a supporter of the Pretender, left his home at Aberdeen after Charles Edward's defeat at Culloden, and went to Bergen, where he carried on business.
		During the winters of 1865-66 and 1869-70 Grieg was in Rome.
		Bülow called Grieg the "Chopin of the North." The phrase is an exaggeration rather than an expression of the truth, for the range of the appeal in Chopin is far wider, nor has the national movement inaugurated by Grieg shown promise of great development.
	www.nndb.com /people/870/000024798 (711 words)

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