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Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( June 15, 1843– September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer of Scottish descent. He was born and died in Bergen. He married his first cousin, Nina Hagerup , in 1867.
Educated at the Leipzig Conservatory , and later by the Danish composer Niels W. Gade, Grieg is noted as a nationalist composer, drawing inspiration from Norwegian folk music. Early works include a symphony and a piano sonata. He also wrote three sonatas for piano and violinThe violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. It is the smallest and highest-tuned member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, cello and double bass. The lowest string (and hen, and his many short pieces for piano - often built on Norwegian folk dances - led some to call him the Chopin of the north.
Among Grieg's best-known pieces are his Piano ConcertoThe Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and among the most popular of all piano concertos. The work is among Grieg's earliest important works, being written in 1868 in Soller in A minor, the Holberg Suite (for stringA string instrument (also "stringed instrument") is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. Sound produc orchestraAn orchestra is a musical ensemble used most often in classical music. A small orchestra is called a chamber orchestra''. Full size orchestras may sometimes be called "symphony orchestras" or "philharmonic orchestras"; these prefixes do not indicate any d), and ten volumes of Lyric Pieces (for piano).
He is also well known for his incidental musicIncidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the " film score" or "soundtrack". Incidental to Henrik IbsenHenrik Johan Ibsen ( March 20, 1828 May 23, 1906) was an extremely influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. His plays were considered scandalous in much of society at the time, when Victorian's playA play (noun) is a common literary form, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. However, many scholars study plays in this more academic manner, particularly classical plays such Peer Gynt, especially for Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King, which appears in many places throughout popular culture. The former was a favorite of Carl Stalling who often used it for morning establishing shots in Warner Bros. cartoons; the latter was famously used in the 1931 film M, in which Peter Lorre's character, a child molester, whistles it.
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