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	Geirr Tveitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geirr (Nils) Tveitt (October 19, 1908–February 1, 1981) was one of Norway's most distinguished composers in the 20th century.
		Tveitt was born in Bergen, where his father briefly worked as a teacher.
		Tveitt was a dedicated collector of the folk music along the Hardanger Fjord in western Norway, much of which he arranged/adapted for piano as well as orchestra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geirr_Tveitt (1060 words)

	Geirr Tveitt - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5
		Geirr Tveitt (1908-81) was, along with Harald Sæverud (1897-1992), the most important Norwegian composer of his generation.
		Unfortunately, Tveitt's achievement is difficult to assess since so little of his prolific output survived a fire in his home in 1970 (of a corpus of over 300 works, around 90 are known to have survived).
		The Piano Concerto No. 1 (1927) written when Tveitt was a 19-year-old student in Leipzig is a remarkably assured work There's a touch of Rachmaninov in the swelling finale, but the quiet coda is ineffably Norse.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Tveitt.html (479 words)

	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Geirr Tveitt - Biography
		Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) was born in Bergen where his father was a teacher.
		Geirr Tveitt received his musical education abroad at the State Academy in Leipzig.
		Unfortunately, all of the authentic folk music notations recorded by Tveitt were destroyed in a tragic fire at the farm in 1970.
	www.mic.no /mic.nsf/doc/art2002100719240618765850 (363 words)

	Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) - famous Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) Classics hit collection and Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) Music ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Geirr Tveitt was born on 19 October 1908 in Bergen, Norway, where his father was teaching for a short period of time.
		Tveitt wrote music in all different kinds of formats, from snatches of songs to concertos, ballets and operas.
		Geirr Tveitt, once described as "an unstoppable waterfall" in Norwegian musical life, died a reduced man, after a period of illness, on 1 February, 1981.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/1064.htm (995 words)

	Nettbiblioteket - musikkavdelingen - komponister - Geirr Tveitt
		Familien kom frå Hardanger og Tveitt var på slektsgarden i mange ferier.
		Tveitt laga songar til dikt og tekstar av desse og mange andre spanande forfattarar som Jakob Sande, Tarjei Vesaas og Aslaug Låstad Lygre.
		I følgje Tveitt sjølv, gjekk det ikkje meir enn rundt fem minuttar frå han såg diktet fyrste gong til tonen var ferdig.
	www.nettbiblioteket.no /musikk/komponist/geirr_tveitt.html (580 words)

	Geirr Tveit ble født i Bergen 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Geirr Tveitt was born in Bergen, Norway 19 October 1908, where his father worked as a teacher.
		After a short period in Vienna, Geirr Tveitt settled down in Oslo, Norway, where he had his breakthrough as a composer.
		As a pianist Tveitt became very popular, but in light of the war, his national style as a composer was often criticised in the press.
	home.online.no /~trold/biotveitt_e.htm (496 words)

	classical music - andante - revelations at the bergen festival
		Tveitt was an extreme-case Nordic nationalist, born in 1908 under the long shadow of Grieg (who had died the year before) but quick to dismiss the composer of Peer Gynt and the Holberg Suite as too cosmopolitan a voice — in other words, not Nordic enough.
		No doubt Tveitt saw himself as a Norwegian Mussorgsky holding out against Grieg's Norwegian Tchaikovsky; what we know of his music certainly suggests the primitive ruggedness for which Mussorgsky was once criticized by composers keen to "improve" his orchestration, although these days that rough quality tends rather to mark Mussorgsky as An Original.
		Tveitt's house burned down in 1970 and most of his manuscripts were destroyed in the fire.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=17207&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (1452 words)

	Geirr Tveitt - Wikipedia
		Tveitt såg sjølv på dette som eit justismord.
		Den rådgivende nemd for opprydding i kunstnerorganisasjoner gjekk gjennom saka og uttalte at Tveitt ikkje hadde forrådd Noregs sak, men at han hadde lete personlege interesser gå føre omsynet til ei verdig nasjonal haldning, fordi han hadde teke mot kunstnarløn i perioden 1941–1945.
		Tveit fekk etter kvart stor interesse for det norske og norrøne, og skifta namn til dei meir norrønklingande Geirr Tveitt i 1930-åra.
	nn.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geirr_Tveitt (498 words)

	TVEITT Two piano concertos
		Tveitt had published very little, mostly by his own choice, since he liked to revise and tweak.
		As a modern Norwegian nationalist, Tveitt consequently had to deal with the facts of Grieg and Johansen.
		But Tveitt has more compositional skill than Grieg His own German training (in Grieg's Leipzig, by the way) seems to have helped him produce works that convince over the long haul.
	classicalcdreview.com /tveitt.htm (2355 words)

	MIC Artikkel: Tveitt, Geirr
		Geirr Tveitts navn er uløselig knyttet til orkestersuitene "Hundrad Hardingtonar".
		Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) ble født i Bergen hvor hans far var lærer.
		Allerede som 17-åring tok Geirr Tveitt til å skrive ned folkemusikk, et arbeid han for alvor skulle ta fatt på i 1942 da han bosatte seg på slektsgården.
	www.ballade.no /nmi.nsf/doc/art2002070913500851195239 (314 words)

	Music
		Tveitt lived in the Hardanger region of western Norway on a farm that had been in his family for more than six centuries.
		Because Tveitt did not bother with the publication of his works, close to 90 percent of his life’s output was lost to this world.
		Tveitt said of himself, "If a leaf grows on a birch tree, it necessarily becomes a birch leaf." He became the song in the roar of the Hardanger waterfalls, or in other words, a source of folk music himself.
	www.crisismagazine.com /november2001/music.htm (1131 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt might be said to resemble Bartók, in that he evolved an obviously modern musical idiom that's steeped in the folk music of his native country but never sounds merely imitative.
		Tveitt's Piano Concerto No. 4 "Aurora Borealis", actually a tone poem in three movements for piano and orchestra, is a sort of northern take on Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
		Tveitt's program is: (1) The Northern Lights awakening above the autumn colors; (2) Glittering in the winter heavens; and (3) Fading away in the bright night of spring.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=5894 (547 words)

	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Geirr Tveitt: The Soul of Folk Music
		Hardly anyone realised that there was such an overwhelmingly rich treasure trove of folk music in Hardanger before Geirr Tveitt presented the results of his collection, which began when he was only 16 years old.
		The Hardanger fiddle was Geirr Tveitt's favourite instrument and primary source of inspiration.
		Tveitt proved his familiarity with the slått in two concertos for Hardanger fiddle and orchestra, the first performed for the first time by Magne Manheim at the Bergen International Festival in 1956 and the second,
	www.mic.no /mic.nsf/dd65a517d148132241256724004cc87a/a2c5e00c6ea18f2ac1256c3f003ca818?OpenDocument (615 words)

	Record box
		I feel that the Norwegian Geirr Tveitt, like so many composers, was the archetypal creative musician writing in a community which may support him, not financially but musically.
		Tveitt's ancestors were familiar with it, so his interest in its characteristics and quality undoubtedly were the impulse for these two concertos for the fine player, Arve Moen Bergset.
		So, with both concertos and a 'symphonic painting' -- a title understood by virtue of its origin through the influence of a painting, Tveitt can be partially understood and admired for his language and the structures that arose from his skills [listen -- track 3, 0:45-1:45].
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/04/tveitt.htm (429 words)

	Geirr TVEITT - Prillar [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tveitt's fortunes as a composer have stood much higher over the last five years.
		We have read many times the tragic story of the loss of Tveitt’s manuscripts in a catastrophic fire at his farmhouse in 1970.
		There is even a hint of the barbaric triumph of a Williams or Rózsa score mixed with the angular storms and upheavals of Jon Leifs.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Oct03/tveitt_prillar.htm (591 words)

	Amazon.com: Tveitt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5: Music: Geirr Tveitt,Bjarte Engeset,Royal Scottish National ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tveitt was a fine pianist and a subtle, individual orchestrator, so the piano concerto was a natural form for him.
		Håvard Gimse, a fine player with a clear feeling for Tveitt's idioms, has already recorded the 50 Folkatonar and the Two-Part Inventions for Marco Polo, but – though his actual tempos are often faster – he sometimes sounds a mite careful compared to Knardahl's generous, chunky abandon.
		Although the Fifth Concerto was published in Tveitt's lifetime, as a performer his view of it remained fluid, and this Naxos recording, like Aurora's, represents a compromise between the published score and tapes of the composer's own (very different) performances.
	www.amazon.com /Tveitt-Piano-Concertos-Nos-5/dp/B000058UU2 (1795 words)

	Geirr Tveitt \| THG Lexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tveitt, der ursprünglich Nils mit Vornamen hieß und sich selbst später in Geirr umbenannte, kam schon in seiner Kindheit mit Musik, insbesondere der Volksmusik der norwegischen Bauern, in Berührung.
		Danach erreichte Tveitt nie wieder seine frühere Produktivität und konnte sich bis zu seinem Tod von diesem schweren Schlag nicht mehr erholen.
		Tveitt meinte sogar alle Kirchentonarten auf alte skandinavische Tonleitern zurückführen zu können, was er in seiner 1937 in Oslo veröffentlichten Studie "Tonalitätstheorie des parallelen Leittonsystems" publik machte.
	www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Geirr_Tveitt (646 words)

	Om KBB : Vélkomne med Æra : Geirr Tveitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I 1828 dro Geirr Tveitt til Leipzig for å studere komposisjon og piano.
		Uansett, brannen som ødelagte hans slektsgård og som ødela rundt 80% av hans musikalske produksjon fratok Geirr Tveitt viljen til å leve.
		Geirr Tveitt, ofte omtalt som Norges musikklivs "ustoppelige fossefall", døde som en redusert mann.
	www.kbb.no /default.asp?id=382 (763 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tveitt - Prillar; Sun God Symphony: Music: Geirr Tveitt,Ole Kristian Ruud,Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Geirr Tveitt wrote it as a graduation piece from the Leipzig Conservatory.
		Tveitt's son found it in a barn a decade after his father's death.
		Three or four other great tunes follow, enhanced by orchestration and development that shows Tveitt was already a master.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tveitt-Prillar-Sun-God-Symphony/dp/B00009VGWE (272 words)

	Geirr Tveitt - Piano Concerto No. 4 [TM]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sometimes known as the ‘Bartók of the North’ due to his almost obsessive collecting of folk tunes from the Hardanger region of Norway, Geirr Tveitt studied in Leipzig, Vienna and Paris, then became a teacher, critic and government music consultant in Oslo during the early years of World War Two.
		Much of his music derives from folk themes, and he uses ancient modes (which explains the oriental and barbaric feel of his music in places) and texts from the Norse sagas.
		Among his collection of Norwegian music, Tveitt gathered well over a hundred Hardanger folk tunes, and one of them forms the basis for the first work on this disc, which is a single movement concerto for two pianos in all but name.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Nov02/Tveitt_PianoConcerto4.htm (607 words)

	Bjarte Engeset - Conductor
		These two suites are largely collections of short movements (15 apiece),brilliantly scored, of folk-like tunes and dances from Tveitt's native region, although, as David Gallagher points out in his excellent accompanying essay, it is a highly moot point precisely where real folksong ended and Tveitt's own invention began.
		Engeset's new account is a delight from start to finish, revealing Tveitt's delicate yet robust invention without a hint of the twee, though with a suggestion of Khachaturian in the finale.
		If you're interested in Tveitt's music, try out this budget CD; the music is entertaining enough to fully justify the minimal outlay, and you can't go wrong with Engeset's strongly committed readings of both suites.
	www.proarte.no /eng/eng_rw_1.4.htm (1533 words)

	GEIRR TVEITT ANNIVERSARY 2008
		Whether or not there were in fact ever a hundred written we will never know, and the Third Suite was among the works destroyed in the terrible fire in 1970 that claimed so much of this fine artist's work.
		Anyone expecting from Tveitt a folksy cuteness a la Grieg is in for a shock.
		Toss into the pot brilliant orchestral accompaniments under the sympathetic baton of Bjarte Engeset, as well as vibrant recorded sound, and you have the perfect disc to convince yourself that yes, there still is great music out there that has yet to see the light of day.
	www.proarte.no /tveitt/tveitt.htm (1528 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The rediscovery of the music of Geirr Tveitt remains one of the more exciting things happening in the world of classical music recordings, and this new release may be the most fascinating find of all.
		Baldur's Dream is "A symbolic play for dance and orchestra in three acts", some 90 minutes of music with parts for singers who vocalise or apparently sing in the composer's own concept of ancient Norwegian (in other words, the text doesn't mean anything we need to worry about and largely adds color).
		Tveitt, on the other hand, uses an invented style largely based on pentatonic modes, so that much of the music has an exotic, Eastern flavor or even brings to mind Miklos Rosza in his "biblical epic" mode (e.g.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7303 (628 words)

	classical music - andante - revelations at the bergen festival
		But the past few years have seen Geirr Tveitt (pronounced "gayer tvay-it") climb back into the public eye and ear.
		Surviving scores have made it onto disc (on Naxos and Bis), and lost scores have been reconstructed out of flened fragments rescued from the conflagration — with some help from tapes found festering in the archives of Norwegian Radio.
		Without the sun the world sinks into winter, and the story is revealed as a fertility myth about the passing seasons.
	andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=17207&highlight=1&...&lstKeywords= (1452 words)

	Premiere Music Distributors - Norwegian Heartland — The Romantic Orchestral Heritage 2SACD
		In 2005 it seems appropriate to look back and give a coherent musical image of the national consciousness that was prevailing before and around 1905, and had great impact on the generations to come.
		From Svendsen, Grieg and Halvorsen to Sæverud and Tveitt: it is the sound of Norwegian stone, mountains, soil and landscapes.
		Each disc is planned as a mini-recital, with longer works interspersed with extracts from Geirr Tveitt's wonderful Hardanger folk-song arrangements.
	www.premieremusic.net /catalog/cd.php?cd=PSC1260 (892 words)

	Geirr Tveitt Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Geirr Tveitt Info - Bored Net - Boredom
		Geirr Tveitt, (October 19, 1908- February 1, 1981),was a Norwegian composer born in Bergen.
		He studied in Leipzig and Paris, and returned to live in Norheimsund, Hardanger in 1942.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/g/ge/geirr_tveitt.html (143 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Tveitt, Saeverud, Monrad Johansen and Valen are composers of course that are not well-known to the international audience and I really think that's a good thing to do - for a Norwegian artist to present this music, which is very good, very wonderful music, to a broader audience.
		"Geirr Tveitt's Hardangertaner are tunes from the Hardanger area of western Norway.
		Tveitt thought that Grieg's handling of the folk music wasn't real enough, it was made too pretty, he thought, so these are more direct.
	www.iclassics.com /featureArticle?contentId=465 (767 words)

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