edvard grieg

     

This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata

Trivia about edvard grieg

  • "Troldhaugen" is the name of the house this Norwegian built a few miles outside Bergen
  • This 19th C. Norwegian wrote incidental music for Bjornstjerne Bjornson's play "Sigurd Jorsalfar"
  • This composer's "Peer Gynt" suites began life as incidental music for a play by Henrik Ibsen
  • This Norwegian composed his "Norwegian Peasant Dances", Opus 72, in 1902
  • Ibsen asked this Norwegian to compose the music for the stage version of "Peer Gynt"
  • This Norwegian's "Holberg Suite" isn't quite as famous as his "Peer Gynt" suite
  • Toralv Maurstadin "Song of Norway"
  • Many of this 19th c. composer's great works were written in a small cabin on the edge of a fjord at Lofthus
  • In September 1907 this Norwegian's ashes were buried in a cliff near his country home Troldhaugen
  • His remains were sealed into a cliff projecting over a fjord near Troldhaugen, his home
  • His Opus 44 is also known as "From Fjeld and Fjord"

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