"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 in the late summer of 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"
"Edvard Grieg Memorial Competition characterised as ""The Music in Edvard Munch's Paintings"". Its three movements are intended to portray musical interpretations of three of Munch's paintings: I ""The Dance of Life""; II ""Melancholy""; III ""The Scream"". Clive Strutt Clive Edward Hazzard Strutt (born 19 April 1942) is an English composer. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, and he was educated at Farnborough Grammar School. Strutt lives on the island of South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland. He studied composition under Lennox Berkeley, orchestration under Leighton Lucas, and piano with Robert O. Edwards, Georgina Smith, and Hamish Milne at the Royal"
"cultural entities named after him: the city's largest concert building (Grieg Hall), its most advanced music school (Grieg Academy) and its professional choir (Edvard Grieg Kor). The Edvard Grieg Museum at Grieg's former home, Troldhaugen, is dedicated to his legacy. Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and 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 1746, Grieg's great-grandfather,"
"Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Stanisław Drzewiecki of Poland won the contest, with Finland and Russia placing second and third respectively. The Grieg Hall (), a 1,500 seat concert hall in Bergen, Norway, was the host venue for the 2000 edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians. It has been the home of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra since the hall's completion in 1978. It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, and is the host of the annual Norwegian Brass Band Championship competition, which occurs in mid-winter. The hall is named after Bergen-born composer Edvard"
"Olivier Greif Olivier Greif (3 January 1950, Paris – 13 May 2000, Paris) was a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. His father was an Auschwitz survivor, a fact which affected Greif deeply and led him to compose a number of Holocaust-themed works, notably ""Todesfuge"", and ""Lettres de Westerbork"", a song cycle which uses letters written by Etty Hillesum . (The composer wanted to use Paul Celan's poem ""Todesfuge"" in his third string quartet, but found it difficult to set, so kept the title but used Dylan Thomas's ""Elegy"" instead.) Greif began composing at the age of 9, and studied at"
"Grieg Hall Grieg Hall () 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 from 1880 until 1882. It serves as the home of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The building was designed in modernist architecture style by the Danish architect Knud Munk. Construction was started in 1967, with completion during May 1978. Grieghallen is used each year for a series of concerts, ballet and opera performances. The facility has featured symphonic, choir, jazz and pop"
"relatively obscure. The circumstances surrounding the composer's membership continue to raise controversy. Sinding had made several remarks against the Nazi occupation. He had fought for the rights of Jewish musicians during the early 1930s and was a close friend of Nordahl Grieg. Letters by Christian Sinding held by the State Archives in Leipzig, company archives of the Music Publishing House C.F.Peters (Leipzig). Christian Sinding Christian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano, ""Frühlingsrauschen"" (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded"
"of using them. Dvořák also wrote nine operas, which, other than his first, have librettos in Czech and were intended to convey Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral works. Martinů is compared with Prokofiev and Bartók in his innovative incorporation of Central European ethnomusicology into his music. He continued to use Bohemian and Moravian folk melodies throughout his oeuvre, usually nursery rhymes—for instance in ""Otvírání studánek"" (""The Opening of the Wells""). Edvard Grieg was an important Romantic era composer whose music helped establish a Norwegian national identity . Jean Sibelius had strong patriotic feelings for Finland. He"
"Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy (4 June 1804 – 12 October 1877) was a conductor, composer, organist and teacher. He immigrated from Prague to Bergen, Norway, where he became very active in the musical environment. He was Edvard Grieg's first music teacher and became leader of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (then called Harmonien) in 1827. Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy is not related to Franz Schediwy, founder and owner of a company under the same name in Ludwigsburg, Germany, which manufactured and sold fine brass instruments for orchestral use. The firm, F. Schediwy, manufactured a line of well built brass that"
"has in recent years increasingly taken a public stance implying that it is """"the"""" Grieg Academy, yet for those who know this history it remains undeniably clear that ""the Grieg Academy"" actually continues to be spread across two institutions, University of Bergen and Bergen University College, with some forms of collaboration. In recent years, the folk music school Ole Bull Academy in nearby Voss (named after renowned violin virtuoso Ole Bull), has also been to some extent brought under the Grieg Academy umbrella. The name Grieg may be traced to Norway's most famous composer Edvard Grieg, a native son of"
"Nordahl Grieg). In the years leading up to his death, he worked on new melodies to a number of psalms, e.g. ""At sige verden ret farvel"". The melody for the poem by Helge Rode, ""Du gav os de blomster, som lyste imod os"", was selected by the Danish Ministry of Culture in 2006 as one of 12 songs to be a part of the Canon of Culture (Danish: ""Kulturministeriets Kulturkanon"") in the category musical scores. The following works do not make a complete listing. Otto Mortensen Otto Hübertz Mortensen (18 August 1907 – 30 August 1986) was a Danish composer"
"Piano Sonata (Grieg) Edvard Grieg's Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7 was written in 1865 when he was 22 years old. The sonata was published a year later and revised in 1887. The work was Grieg's only piano sonata and it was dedicated to the Danish composer Niels Gade. The sonata has four movements with the following tempo markings: A typical performance lasts around 20 minutes. In the first movement Grieg used a technique probably most famously used by Bach and Shostakovich: his own name, more precisely his initials E-H-G (H being the German name for note B), begins"
"2003. Another elaboration on Grieg's sketches was completed by the Norwegian composer Helge Evju and was recorded by the Naxos label. Among the other contestants the Romanian Șerban Nichifor (""Concerto GRIEGoriano""), the Russian Vladimir Belyayev (""Second Piano Concerto""), the Scottish Callum Kenmuir (""Rhapsody on themes by Grieg""), the American Daniel Powers (""Concerto Reliquary""), the German Klaus Miehling (""Concert Fantasy in B minor""), the New Zealander Alison Edgar (""Fantasia in B minor""), the Australian David Morgan (""Norwegian Fantasy""). The 1st prize went to the Italian Alberto Colla (""Piano Concerto No. 1""). The enduring popularity of Grieg's Piano Concerto has ensured its"
"Christian Sinding Christian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano, ""Frühlingsrauschen"" (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor. He was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. His parents were mine superintendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding (1811–1860) and Cecilie Marie Mejdell (1817–86). He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding (1842–1909) and the sculptor Stephan Sinding (1846–1922). His sister Thora Cathrine Sinding (1850–1932) was married to jurist Glør Thorvald Mejdell (1851-1937). Christian Sinding was a nephew of Nicolai"
"</score> The beginning of the melody of ""The Last Spring"", played by the 1st violins Two Elegiac Melodies Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34, is a composition in two movements for string orchestra by Edvard Grieg, completed in 1880 and first published in 1881. The two movements are instrumental arrangements Grieg made of two of his ""12 Melodies"", Op. 33, published in 1880: these were settings for voice and piano of words by the Norwegian poet and journalist Aasmund Olavsson Vinje. ""Two Elegiac Melodies"" was dedicated to Heinrich von Herzogenberg. Grieg also made an arrangement for solo piano. It is scored"
"Piano Concerto (Grieg) The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg in 1868, was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and is among the most popular of all piano concerti. The concerto is in three movements: Performance time of the whole concerto is usually just under 30 minutes. Greig scored the concerto for solo piano, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A and B flat), 2 bassoons, 2 horns in E and E flat, 2 trumpets in C and B flat, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani and strings (violins,"
"London, where he established himself first as a society pianist and later as a concert performer, composer and collector of original folk melodies. As his reputation grew he met many of the significant figures in European music, forming important friendships with Frederick Delius and Edvard Grieg. He became a champion of Nordic music and culture, his enthusiasm for which he often expressed in private letters, sometimes in crudely racial or anti-Semitic terms. In 1914, Grainger moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life, though he travelled widely in Europe and in Australia. He served"
"but received regular grants from the Norwegian government. In 1920–21 he went to the United States of America to teach composition for a season at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Sinding's publishers required from him piano and chamber music, which has broader sales than the symphonic works he preferred. His own instrument was the violin. The large number of short, lyrical piano pieces and songs that Sinding wrote has led to many seeing him as the heir to his fellow countryman, Edvard Grieg, not so much in musical style but as a Norwegian composer with an"
"remained sympathetically self-effacing"". De Greef composed a sizeable quantity of music, virtually all of which is now unheard. Among his works are two piano concertos. He was a devoted teacher, and taught piano at the Brussels Conservatoire for many years. His was the first complete recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, but he had earlier recorded a cut version. He also recorded with Isolde Menges. Other recorded works included Liszt: Chopin Schubert Moszkowski A complete discography can be found Earthlink here. Arthur De Greef (composer) Arthur De Greef (10 October 186229 August 1940) was a Belgian pianist and"
"composers from Nordic countries are the Finn Jean Sibelius, the Dane Carl Nielsen and the Norwegian Edvard Grieg. Of contemporary composers, the Finns Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho and Esa-Pekka Salonen are among the most often performed in the world. Rock ‘n roll influences that came from the United States and United Kingdom were the start of the Nordic pop scene, but influences from the Nordic folk music can still be found today in popular music. Common characteristic in Nordic pop music is that it can often be either very lighthearted pop music or very dark metal. Some of the most"
"Stern Conservatory. In Lechetitzky's class, he met a Norwegian student whom he married in 1893. She had been a student and friend of Edvard Grieg and Nepomuceno moved to Bergen after his wedding and lived in Grieg's house. Grieg, of course, was a proponent of nationalism in composition. Nepomuceno's friendship with Grieg was instrumental in convincing him to write music which reflected Brazilian culture. Before leaving Europe he visited Paris where he met such luminaries as Camille Saint-Saëns and Vincent d'Indy. He subsequently returned to Brazil where he taught at the Institutio Nacional de Musica in Rio de Janeiro. Later"
"Lyric Suite (Grieg) Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite is an orchestration of four of the six piano pieces from Book V of his ""Lyric Pieces"", Op. 54. Both Grieg and the Austro-Hungarian conductor Anton Seidl had a hand in the orchestration. It consists of three pieces revised by Grieg from Seidl's arrangements, and one piece arranged by Grieg alone. Grieg wrote the six ""Lyric Pieces"" of Book V for piano in 1891. The original order was: In 1894, Anton Seidl, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, orchestrated four of the pieces for his orchestra to play. He gave the work"
"Grell's oeuvre includes three symphonies, three string quartets, and large amounts of vocal music. He is considered one of the leaders of the Palestrina renaissance in Europe. He was also the first to produce the Christmas Oratorio since the death of its composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Eduard Grell Eduard Grell or August Eduard Grell (6 November 1800 – 10 August 1886) was a German composer, organist, and music teacher. Grell was born in Berlin. Among his early teachers were Carl Friedrich Zelter and Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen. On Zelter's recommendation, Grell became in 1817 the organist at the Nikolaikirche in Berlin;"
"György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; , ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as ""one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century"" and ""one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time"". Born in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Communist Hungary before emigrating to Austria in 1956. He became an Austrian citizen in 1968. In 1973 he became professor of composition at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where he worked until retiring in"
"from Book IX, Op. 68. Lyric Suite (Grieg) Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite is an orchestration of four of the six piano pieces from Book V of his ""Lyric Pieces"", Op. 54. Both Grieg and the Austro-Hungarian conductor Anton Seidl had a hand in the orchestration. It consists of three pieces revised by Grieg from Seidl's arrangements, and one piece arranged by Grieg alone. Grieg wrote the six ""Lyric Pieces"" of Book V for piano in 1891. The original order was: In 1894, Anton Seidl, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, orchestrated four of the pieces for his orchestra to"
"in addition to the archives a library, a museum, research facilities, an education centre, and a concert hall. Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include ""Fratres"" (1977), ""Spiegel im Spiegel"" (1978), and ""Für Alina"" (1976). Since 2011 Pärt has been the most performed living composer in the world. Pärt was born in Paide, Järva County, Estonia and"
"the main themes. The overture concludes with a triumphant reprise of the opening woodwind theme. In Autumn In Autumn, Op. 11, is a concert overture written by Edvard Grieg in 1865. On a visit to Copenhagen, Grieg showed his overture to Niels Gade, who told Grieg: ""This is trash, Grieg; go home and write something better."" After this, Grieg arranged this overture for piano duet and sent it in to a competition at the Swedish Academy, one of the judges being Gade. The overture took first prize and was published in its duet form in Stockholm. The overture is scored"
"died in Riga. He composed two operas, cantatas, pieces for piano, hymns, songs and also around 210 Ukrainian folk songs. He was also an editor of other composers' work and composed arrangements for other composers' music. Eduard Mertke Eduard Mertke (17 June 1833–25 September 1895) was a Baltic German composer. Mertke was born in Riga in what was then the Russian Empire. He studied music in Riga, Saint Petersburg, Moscow and after 1853 in Leipzig under Albrecht Agthe. He may have made his first appearance before an audience as a pianist already at the age of ten, and by 1850"
"held honorary degrees as St. Olaf College from 1993 and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität from 1996. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1993. Finn Benestad Finn Benestad (30 October 1929, Kristiansand – 30 April 2012, Kristiansand) was a Norwegian musicologist and music critic. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1998, and is probably best known for his long-term research on composer Edvard Grieg. Benestad was born in Kristiansand as the son of Harald Martin Benestad and Ellen Kittelsen. He married Inge Bergliot Rosendal in 1951. He graduated in musicology"
"one hand the cession of Norway from Denmark to Sweden arose a strong nationalist cultural motivation (""Norskhetsbegerstring""). On the other hand, the ideas of Hans Georg Nägeli (1773–1836, Swiss) and Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758–1832, Germany) had given to choral singing reputed to be a particularly effective means of decimation of culture. This tradition is the joint work of composers, conductors, singing teachers and choral music publications. Roverud, Reissiger, Lindeman, Kjerulf, Conradi, and Behrens are just some of the names that formed this Norwegian tradition before E. Grieg. They took more than one role in this complex socio-cultural development, but each"
"Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe (10 December 1926 – 1 February 2013) was a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of professor. His research mainly centered on the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Schjelderup-Ebbe was born in Oslo as the son of zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe and Torbjørg Brekke. He graduated in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950, and started teaching at the University of Oslo the same year. In 1953 he published the work ""A Study of Grieg's Harmony"", and in"
"death. Bosnia and Herzegovina held a large-scale celebration, featuring ""Peer Gynt"" and the Piano Concerto in a public concert for children and adults. The July 2007 Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference featured Grieg's works. The Bergen University College, and later, the University of Bergen both named their tertiary music departments ""Griegakademiet"", in honor of Grieg. In 1960 Duke Ellington recorded a jazz interpretation of ""Peer Gynt"" in his ""Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G."" album. A struggle ensued in Norway between the Grieg Foundation and its supporters, who found the recordings offensive to Norwegian culture, and Norwegian supporters of"
"Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (; , in modern usage ""Liszt Ferenc"" ; 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era. Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. As a composer, Liszt was"