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