Edvard Grieg

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"Troll Hill" is the name of his country home, the grounds of which include a concert hall & a lakeside cabin where he worked Edvard Grieg FJ COMPOSERS 2025-01-24 #9255
His music, like "In The Hall Of The Mountain King", was inspired by the grandeur of his native Norway's landscape (Edvard) Grieg $400 DJ COMPOSERS 2017-05-10 #7528
His 1884 "Holberg Suite" was written to honor the bicentennial of the birth of Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg (Edvard) Grieg $800 DJ CLASSICAL COMPOSERS 2016-03-08 #7252
He was in Rome when he met his fellow countryman Henrik Ibsen (Edvard) Grieg $800 J COMPOSERS 2015-05-18 #7071
Many of this 19th c. composer's great works were written in a small cabin on the edge of a fjord at Lofthus Edvard Grieg DD $1,200 DJ CLASSICAL COMPOSERS 2010-04-08 #5894
His remains were sealed into a cliff projecting over a fjord near Troldhaugen, his home Edvard Grieg $1,600 DJ COMPOSERS 2008-07-11 #5505
Toralv Maurstadin "Song of Norway" Edvard Grieg $1,000 J COMPOSERS ON FILM 2007-12-04 #5347
When his great-grandfather moved to Norway, he switched the "E" & "I" in the spelling of the last name (Edvard) Grieg $800 DJ CLASSICAL COMPOSERS 2006-12-14 #5124
His Opus 44 is also known as "From Fjeld and Fjord" Edvard Grieg DD $2,000 DJ COMPOSERS 2002-10-21 #4171
This Norwegian "Peer Gynt Suite" composer married his first cousin, singer Nina Hagerup, in 1867 (Edvard) Grieg $600 DJ COMPOSERS 1997-05-09 #2935
This Norwegian composer of the "Peer Gynt" suites was nicknamed "The Chopin of the North" (Edvard) Grieg $1,000 DJ COMPOSERS 1996-05-17 #2710
He wrote the incidental music for his fellow Norwegian Bjornstjerne Bjornson's play "Sigurd Jorsalfar" (Edvard) Grieg DD $1,000 DJ COMPOSERS 1995-05-19 #2480
The inspiration for many of this Norwegian's songs was his cousin Nina Hagerup, whom he married in 1867 (Edvard) Grieg $800 DJ COMPOSERS 1994-05-05 #2239
Selections in his "Peer Gynt" suite include "Anitra's Dance", "Morning" & "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Edvard) Grieg $800 DJ CLASSICAL COMPOSERS 1994-04-11 #2221
This composer's great-grandfather immigrated to Norway from Scotland in the 18th century Edvard Grieg $600 DJ COMPOSERS 1993-09-21 #2077
This Norwegian composer was sometimes called "The Chopin of the North" (Edvard) Grieg $1,000 DJ COMPOSERS 1992-12-11 #1905
A lifetime grant from the Norwegian gov't enabled him to give up teaching & conducting after 1874 Edvard Grieg $800 DJ COMPOSERS 1992-01-24 #1710
In 1867 he founded the Norwegian Academy of Music Edvard Grieg DD $1,700 DJ COMPOSERS 1991-09-17 #1617
This composer's great-grandfather immigrated from Scotland to Norway in the 18th century (Edvard) Grieg $600 DJ COMPOSERS 1991-06-17 #1581
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