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	Rikard Nordraak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rikard Nordraak (June 12, 1842–March 20, 1866) was a Norwegian composer, born in Christiania (now Oslo).
		He set music to his cousin Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's Ja, vi elsker dette landet, which was adopted to Norwegian national anthem in 1864.
		Nordraak died in Berlin, Germany, only 23 years old.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rikard_Nordraak (81 words)

	Rikard Nordraak -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rikard Nordraak (June 12, 1842–March 20, 1866) was a (A Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway) Norwegian composer, born in Christiania (now (The capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast) Oslo).
		He set music to his cousin (Click link for more info and facts about Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's (Click link for more info and facts about Ja, vi elsker dette landet) Ja, vi elsker dette landet, which was adopted to Norwegian (A song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation) national anthem in 1864.
		Nordraak died in (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) Berlin, (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany, only 23 years old.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/rikard_nordraak.htm (164 words)

	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Profile: Edvard Grieg
		Rikard Nordraak, the composer of the Norwegian National Anthem, also became a close friend, and through him Grieg came to appreciate the peasant songs and dances of his native land.
		Sadly Nordraak died very suddenly in Berlin, and Grieg was so grief stricken that there were fears for his life.
		She was the inspirer and interpreter of many of his songs, and for nearly forty years they were to travel throughout Europe together giving innumerable concerts and recitals.
	www.lessontutor.com /bf_grieg.html (1556 words)

	Rikard Nordraak - TheBestLinks.com - Edvard Grieg, June 12, March 20, Norway, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Rikard Nordraak (June 12, 1842 – March 20, 1866) was a Norwegian composer.
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	Program Notes
		At the center of things was Rikard Nordraak, an aspiring composer just a year older than Grieg, the son of a Danish mother and a Norwegian father.
		Nordraak had studied in Berlin, but he was a far more rebellious pupil than the introverted, diffident Grieg had been in Leipzig, and he accordingly resisted the inculcation of a thorough musical education.
		Nordraak’s only durably famous composition, “Ja, vi elsker dette Landet”; (“Yes, We Love this Land,” to a poem by Bjørnson), was adopted as Norway’s national anthem in 1864.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/router.asp?callid=117&nodeid=3447 (1732 words)

	Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Grieg also met the young composer Rikard Nordraak, a passionate advocate of anything Norwegian: saga literature, old ballads, mountain scenery, traditional costumes, festivals, folk music, and folk dances.
		Nordraak modeled his musical career on that of Ole Bull, whom he revered to the extent of hoarding the violinist’s discarded cigar butts.
		Nordraak’s death at the age of 24, two years after he and Grieg had become close friends, made Grieg even more determined to carry out his musical commitment to Norway.
	carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4456_pn.html?... (2015 words)

	Classical 103.5 WGMS
		From the fall of that year until the winter of 1865, Grieg stayed in Copenhagen, rooming with a young composer named Rikard Nordraak.
		Nordraak, all of 22 when Grieg met him, was at the forefront of the push to begin a Norwegian
		Nordraak was gravely ill, and in 1866, he died.
	oldwgms.bonnint.net /composer_grieg.shtm (670 words)

	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Rikard Nordraak - Biography
		Richard Nordraak, born in Oslo in 1842, died in Berlin in 1866.
		His "real" opus 1, Six Songs with texts by the famous late-nineteenth century poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nordraaks cousin and close friend, was published in 1863.
		Nordraak did not live long enough to produce much music.
	www.mic.no /mic.nsf/doc/art2002100713502365459830 (316 words)

	Articles - Edvard Grieg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He also met his fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak (composer of the Norwegian national anthem) who became a very dear friend and source of great inspiration for Grieg.
		Nordraak died shortly after, and Grieg composed a funeral march in his honor.
		Grieg had close ties with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Harmonien) and was Music Director of the orchestra from 1880-1882.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Edvard_Grieg (787 words)

	Music Of The Great Composers --
		It was to Ole Bull and Rikard Nordraak that Grieg owed his reclamation from the conventional to the highly flavored folk music of Norway.
		Nordraak, although he died before he became twenty-four, and although the greater part of his fame rests upon his association with Grieg, was a remarkable force as a patriot and as a musician.
		Side by side they worked to foster Norwegian music, and it was to such spirits as Nordraak that Grieg repaired when he received communications from Gade advising his (Grieg) to make his next work less Norwegian.
	www.playpiano.com /Articles/music-composers/Grieg06-composer.htm (252 words)

	19th Century Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While in Copenhagen, he befriended Rikard Nordraak, the composer of the Norwegian national anthem.
		Nordraak and Grieg co-founded the Nordic music society, "Euterpe." This society was a forum to disseminate Norwegian music and to expose Norwegian music to many people.
		The first concert of Norwegian music, including Nordraak's and Grieg's own works, was held in 1866 and was a great success.
	www.rose.edu /faculty/mmorgan/mstevens/composers/eg.html (424 words)

	Edvard Grieg
		Grieg was not extremely renowned as a concert pianist during his time, though he was always favourable and welcomed in Europe.
		Like Schubert, he was a capable pianist, and yet he managed to give several piano recitals of Norwegian music - mostly his own and others like Rikard Nordraak.
		Grieg, on his first meeting with a young Norwegian composer, Rikard Nordraak, 1864, decided to devote his musical career to composing in the spirit of Norwegian folk music and history
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/9981/grieg.html (526 words)

	MHSchool: McGraw-Hill Music 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Norway was beginning to assert its national identity, and Grieg found himself becoming part of the rising tide of Norwegian nationalism.
		In 1864, he met and befriended the Norwegian patriot and composer Rikard Nordraak (1842—1866) in Copenhagen.
		(Nordraak would later create the triumphant choral setting of Norway’s national anthem.) Grieg’s earlier music had been heavily influenced by the German romantic tradition, but his Humoresker Piano Sonata from 1865 reflect his changing sensibility.
	www.mhschool.com /music/2005/teacher/teachingideas/composers/grieg (1267 words)

	GRIEG complete solo piano music Oppitz 82876 60391 2 [GS]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2004 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CD 7: (19) Norwegian Folkdances, op 66; Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak, EG 107; (17) Norwegian Peasant Dances, op 72.
		The journey would never have been undertaken had it not been for his friendship with fellow composer Rikard Nordraak (1842-66) who introduced him to a work called Norwegian Mountain Melodies by Lindeman.
		Nordraak’s untimely death at age 24 occasioned Grieg to write the Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Nov04/Grieg_Oppitz.htm (1051 words)

	Modesto Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1864, he met and befriended another young Norwegian composer, Rikard Nordraak.
		Nordraak believed that the future of their countryâs art music lay not in a continued reliance on Germanic models, but in tapping into the countryâs rich heritage of folk song.
		We swore to oppose the Scandinavianism that was softened by Mendelssohn, and we eagerly set off on the new path â“ along which the Nordic school is still traveling today.â Nordraak died of consumption in March 1866, at 23.
	www.modestosymphony.org /0e5df3a8-342f-4007-b31f-89bd6e8024fb.sj (1268 words)

	Nordraak, Rikard -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Nordraak also spelled Nordraach Norwegian composer perhaps best known as the composer of the music for the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, vi elsker dette landet”; (1864; “Yes, We Love This Land”).
		He was sent at age 15 to Copenhagen, Den., for training in business, but he also studied music while there.
		More results on "Nordraak, Rikard" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056112 (293 words)

	Nordic/Scandinavian Composers - NPRN Composer of the Month
		He also discovered Norwegian folk music while staying with Ole Bull one summer, and met the young composer Rikard Nordraak, the one on whom Norwegian nationalists were pinning their hopes for a genuinely Norwegian voice in art music.
		Nordraak was destined to die while still in his early twenties, but Grieg allowed the mantle to fall on his shoulders, and began to receive acclaim in this realm after a few years devoted to developing a nationalist style.
		He soon gained an admirer of his work in the great composer and pianist Franz Liszt, and soon became known as one of the leading young composers in Europe.
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmnordicgrieg.html (1191 words)

	Paul Nazzaro Music Studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Grieg met Rikard Nordraak, another famous Norwegian composer who was a leading figure in the Norwegian national movement.
		Nordraak also wrote Norway¹s national anthem, "Ja Vi Elsker." This meeting inspired Grieg with Norwegian romantic nationalism, and he then wrote Humoresker (1865) for the piano.
		Grieg was also friends with Hans Christian Anderson, a famous fairy-tale writer from Denmark, who could have influenced Grieg to be more imaginative in his music.
	www.nazzaromusic.com /StudentFun/grieg.html (471 words)

	Song of Norway
		It is Midsummer's Eve in 1860, and the poet Rikard Nordraak recounts the legend of Norway.
		Grieg is a humble, unknown and struggling composer whose genius is recognized only by his close friends, Nina, his sweetheart, and Nordraak, his great friend.
		With the news of the death of his friend Nordraak, he immediately returns to Norway, and rejoins Nina.
	www.orpheus-theatre.on.ca /shows/norway/main.html (637 words)

	Geirr Tveit ble født i Bergen 19
		Nordraak's enthusiasm for everything Norwegian was transferred to Edvard Grieg.
		Even though Grieg was the one with the most solid background from a conservatory, he looked upon Nordraak as his idol.
		Grieg later said this about Nordraak: "He opened my eyes for the important in music that isn't music".
	home.online.no /~trold/griegbio_e.htm (1477 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		In 1864, two years after his return from Leipzig, he spent the summer with the eccentric Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, who began to interest Grieg in Norwegian folk culture.
		That winter he met Rikard Nordraak - only a year older than Grieg, but already the great musical hope for Norwegian nationalists - in Copenhagen, and Grieg's conversion to Romantic nationalism was completed.
		When Nordraak died two years later, Grieg inherited the mantle of Norwegian musical champion.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=918 (551 words)

	Norway - nationalanthems.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The original poem had six verses; the first verse and last two verses are used nowadays as the anthem.
		The music was composed by Rikard Nordraak, cousin of Bjørnson and a friend of the famed Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, in 1864.
		It was first performed later that year for the 50th anniversary of their constitution, and caught on quickly.
	david.national-anthems.net /no.htm (132 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Edvard Hagerup Grieg \| PBS
		He studied with E. Wenzel at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-62), where he became intimately familiar with early Romantic music (especially Schumann's), gaining further experience in Copenhagen and encouragement from Niels Gade.
		Not until 1864-5 and his meeting with the Norwegian nationalist Rikard Nordraak did his stylistic breakthrough occur, notably in the folk-inspired "Humoresker" for piano op.6.
		Apart from promoting Norwegian music through concerts of his own works, he obtained pupils, became conductor of the Harmoniske Selskab, projected a Norwegian Academy of Music and helped found the Christiania Musikforening (1871), meanwhile composing his Piano Concerto (1868) and the important piano arrangements of 25 of Lindeman's folksongs (op.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/grieg.html (308 words)

	Grieg
		Born in Bergen on June 15, 1843, he 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.
		From 1866 to 1876 Grieg lived in Christiania (now Oslo), where he taught music and became conductor of the Philharmonic Society.
	www.geocities.com /classical_music_website/grieg.htm (252 words)

	MVCMS 1999 Program III Notes
		It was Bull who convinced his parents to send him to study at the Leipzig Conservatory.
		After his studies he went to Copenhagen, and there Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak completed Grieg's transformation into the Romantic Norwegian Nationalist composer we know today (it was for Nordraak's untimely death that Grieg composed his famous Funeral March).
		There was much praise and criticism for the work when it was first heard, as there is to this day.
	www.mvcms.vineyard.net /notes99/program3.shtml (847 words)

	Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) Norwegian composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From the age of six, Grieg received piano lessons from his mother and later studied at the Leipzig Conservatory.
		During a stay in Copenhagen, Denmark, he met Rikard Nordraak who introduced him to the Northern folk tunes of Norway.
		From 1866 to 1876 Edvard Grieg lived in Oslo (then called Christiania), where he taught music and became a conductor.
	www.abfimagazine.com /classical/data/griegedvard.htm (240 words)

	Edvard and Nina Grieg
		While in Copenhagen Grieg met the young Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.
		His influence, together with that of Ole Bull, sparked Grieg's interest in developing a Norwegian style of music, separate from the predominating German style of the time.
		His ashes were later moved to a cliff-side grotto overlooking the fjord at Troldhaugen.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/edvardgrieg.html (3442 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Playgrounds For Angels - Nordic Music For Brass / Partout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While the combination of brass and percussion may seem very much a 20th century concoction, the fact is that both Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius exploited such forces to great effect in their youth.
		Grieg originally wrote his Funeral march in memory of Rikard Nordraak for piano.
		It makes a weightier, starker impression as arranged by the composer for brass octet and percussion, especially in the present performance.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=25858 (334 words)

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