biography
| name: |
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup)
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pronunciation:
[greeg]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1843–1907)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Bergen, SW Norway. He studied at Leipzig, where he was much influenced by Schumann's music, then worked in Copenhagen (1863–7), and developed into a strongly national Norwegian composer. After some years teaching and conducting in Christiania, the success of his incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1876), and a state pension, enabled him to settle near Bergen. His other major works include the Piano Concerto in A Minor, orchestral suites, violin sonatas, and numerous songs and piano pieces. |
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