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EDVARD GRIEG
Born in Bergen, Norway on June
15th, 1843
CHILDHOOD, FAMILY AND
MUSICAL TRAINING
• Grieg came from a
musical family.
• His mother was his
first piano teacher
(he began playing at
6 years old.)
• At nine, he began
composing.
• He went away to a
music conservatory in
Leipzig, Germany at the
age of 15. He
graduated at 19.
• He married his first
cousin, Nina, when he
was 24 years old.
• They had a daughter a
year later, who got sick
and died at 13 months
old.
HOW HE EARNED A LIVING, POPULARITY WITH
SOCIETY, INTERESTING FACTS, KINDS OF MUSIC
• He earned a living as a
concert pianist, Music
Director for the Bergen
Orchestra, conductor
and composer.
• He was very popular in
Norway. Much of his
music was based on
Norwegian folk music.
• There were 30,00040,000 people who
attended his funeral.
• He met and played his
piano music for Franz
Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
They were both
impressed!
• He wrote piano sonatas
and concertos as well
as concertos for string
instruments. He also
wrote symphonic
dances and songs, too.
• His most famous pieces
were written for a play
“Peer Gynt”.
WHEN AND HOW HE DIED
• He died in autumn of 1907 after a long
illness. He was 64 years old.
• His own funeral march as well as Chopin’s
were played at his funeral (per his request).
• He and his wife’s ashes are entombed in a
mountain crypt near his home in Norway.
“MORNING” FROM PEER
GYNT
• This is my favorite because I think it has
a pretty melody and I love the nature
pictures!