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12 videos • 426 views • by Foriero - We bring LIGHT! Product : http://www.foriero.com/pages/music-ke... Company : http://www.foriero.com/ Piano Sound : www.truepianos.com Music License: cc-by-sa Germany License Performer: Bernd Krueger Source: http://www.piano-midi.de ----------------------- Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 -- 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. 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 develop a national identity. Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. He was raised in a musical milieu. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play at the age of six. When he was fifteen he went to the Leipzig Conservatory. In the spring of 1860, he survived a life-threatening lung disease, pleurisy and tuberculosis. Throughout his life, Grieg's health was impaired by a destroyed left lung. In 1863, Grieg went to Copenhagen, Denmark, and stayed there for three years. On 11 June 1867, Grieg married his first cousin, Nina Hagerup, their only child, Alexandra, was born. Alexandra died in 1869 from meningitis. Grieg had close ties with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The Norwegian government awarded him a pension. Edvard Grieg died in the late summer of 1907 after a long period of illness. List of selected works: Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7, Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8, Incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, Op. 23, Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song in g minor, Op. 24, String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27. ------------------------ The text above is taken from Wikipedia, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.