Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Griegwas a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák did in Finland and Bohemia, respectively. Grieg is regarded as simultaneously nationalistic and...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth15 June 1843
CityBergen, Norway
CountryNorway
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home
Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.