Edvard Grieg

Compositions

• He is very famous for the incidental music he wrote for Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt', which includes 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' and 'Morning Mood'.
• He thought they were too Norwegian.
• He met Ibsen in Rome in 1869-70.

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• He married his first cousin, Nina Hagerup.
• He settled in Christiania, now Oslo, in 1866
• He left in 1874 when he was granted an annual stipend of 1,600 crowns($1 is 8.36 crowns).
• In 1885 he built his home, 'Troldhaugen' near Bergen.

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• His mother studied at Hamburg in Germany.
• She was also his first piano teacher.
• He was recommended and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory.
• That recommendation was made by violin virtuoso Ole Bull.

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• He was a founder of the Norwegian Nationalist School of Music.
• He also became a founder of the Copenhagen concert society, Euterpe, which helped produce works by young Scandinavian composers.

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• Between the years 1867 and 1901 he wrote ten collections of Lyriske Stykker(Lyric Pieces) for the piano.
• He has used a variety of styles of music throughout his career, such as variations of traditional folk music, which he is commonly associated with, songs based off of the late Romantic style, and free sonata form.

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• During his two visits to Rome, Grieg met Liszt, who reviewed his first violin concerto, which he enjoyed. He also played Grieg's Piano Concerto by sight, which Grieg liked greatly, but couldn't help but to tell him he had played the first movement too quickly.