Liszt sight read grieg8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote, ‘the traditional way of life of the Norwegian people, together with Norway’s legends, Norway’s history, Norway’s natural scenery, stamped itself on my creative imagination from my earliest years.’ Within Norway he is widely celebrated as a national icon: Norway personified. Grieg is regarded as simultaneously nationalistic and cosmopolitan in his orientation, for although born in Bergen and even buried there, he traveled widely throughout Europe, and considered his music to express both the beauty of Norwegian rural life and the culture of Europe as a whole. 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. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. Today is the birthday (1843) of Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer and pianist. ![]()
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