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Edvard Grieg
| Famous Norwegian composer Date of Birth: 15.06.1843 Country: Norway |
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Biography of Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg, the prominent Norwegian composer, was born on June 15, 1843, in Bergen.
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His father, a businessman and British consul in Bergen, came from the Scottish Greig family. At the age of six, Edward began studying music with his mother. At the advice of the renowned Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, fifteen-year-old Grieg was sent to study at the Leipzig Conservatory.
Although his studies at the conservatory did not have a decisive impact on his artistic individuality, Grieg's acquaintance with the young Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, the author of the national anthem, in 1863, after his return from Germany, was of much greater significance.
"The scales fell from my eyes," Grieg later recounted, "and it was only thanks to Nordraak that I became acquainted with Norwegian