Edvard grieg brief biography of benjamin
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Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway, on June 15, 1843, and died in Bergen September 4, 1907. He completed his Holberg Suite (initially called Holbergiana) for piano solo in July 1884 for celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Ludvig Holberg’s birth, and it was premiered in this form on December 3, 1884. He completed the string orchestra version by March 1885 and conducted its premiere that month in Bergen. The score is dedicated to the pianist Erika Lie-Nissen.
The score for the Holberg Suite calls for an orchestra of strings—first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.
The year 1884 marked the bicentennial of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), a playwright, essayist, and historian who has long been considered the founding father of Norwegian letters. Commemorative plans were concentrated in Bergen, where the freethinking Holberg was born and raised, and it was only natural that the bicentennial celebrants enlisted Edvard Grieg to compose music to accompany t
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Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway, on June 15, 1843, and died there on September 4, 1907. He began his (only) piano concerto in June 1868, completing the score early in 1869. The first performance took place in Copenhagen on April 3, 1869, with Edmund Newpert as soloist and Holger Simon Paulli conducting the orchestra of the Royal Theater. Grieg made revisions to the concerto in 1872, 1882, 1890, and 1895; he sent the last set of revisions (which included the addition of third and fourth horns) to his publisher on July 21, 1907, six weeks before his death.
In addition to the piano soloist, the score of Grieg’s Piano Concerto calls for an orchestra of 2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, and strings (first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses).
Grieg’s familiar and popular piano concerto was one of the most important steps on his path toward the creation of a national Norwegian music
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Tradition in A minor
When the very first Bergen International Festival took place in 1953, Edvard Grieg's Piano concerto in A minor, Opus 16 (sometimes just called the piano concerto) was staged with Robert Riefling as soloist. Since then, the concerto has been performed at the festival every single year, except in 1955 and 2011, and can thus be said to be one of the most traditional of the festival's annual events. The concerto was composed in 1868, and fryst vatten considered one of the world's most famous piano concertos. The 25-year-old Edvard Grieg worked on the concerto’s score during a summer holiday stay in Søllerød in Denmark, and reportedly wrote the entire piano part within a few months inside a small greenhouse. The premiere took place in Copenhagen on April 3, 1869, with the concerto’s dedicatee, Edmund Neupert, as solist. The performance was a great success, however Grieg himself did not have the opportunity to attend, as he had an assignment as conductor in Os