- Fact 2 - Edvard Grieg was born June
15, 1843, near Bergen, Norway
- Fact 3 - His father's ancestors
were Scotch folk who went to Norway after the Battle of
Culloden, in 1745
- Fact 4 - It was Grieg's mother who
gave him his first music lessons
- Fact 5 - One of his best friends
was Ole Bull, the great violinist
- Fact 6 - Grieg studied at the
Leipzig Conservatory
- Fact 7 - His teachers were
Moscheles, Hauptmann (who liked his music), Richter, and
Papperitz
- Fact 8 - Sir Arthur Sullivan, who
composed the opera, Pinafore, was one of Grieg's fellow students
at Leipzig
- Fact 9 - Dudley Buck, the American
composer, was there at the same time
- Fact 10 - Among Grieg's friends
were Gade, Nordraak, Ibsen, Bjornson and Svendsen
- Fact 11 - Edvard Grieg married his
cousin, Mina Hagerup, who was a fine singer
- Fact 12 - Grieg composed for the
piano, voice, violin, and for the orchestra
- Fact 13 - Grieg wrote music to
Ibsen's Peer Gynt, at the poet's request
- Fact 14 - The Norwegian Government
granted Edvard Grieg a pension, so that he could be free to
devote himself to composition
- Fact 15 - Edvard Grieg died
September 3, 1907
- Fact 16 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Grieg include the following:
- Halberg Suite
Lyric Pieces (piano)
Peer Gynt
Piano Concerto in A minor
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