Edvard Grieg - the genius of Scandinavia

Among writers, artists and, of course, composers, there are those whose fate is closely intertwined with the fate of their people. They become singers of the rich culture of the country that gave them life, reveal in the form of music, later called classical, what was buried on long years.

In sheet music and the sound of piano keys, such composers bring to the world something long forgotten, but not lost, beautiful, important. Important not only for the country that became the birthplace of the composer, but also for the whole world. Such creators, who revealed folk art, were for Russia, Chopin for Poland, and for Norway, and indeed all of Scandinavia, this was Edvard Grieg.

Unlike , who began composing music almost before he spoke, and Strauss, who won recognition even before the first grade of school, Edvard Grieg was not initially sure that music was his destiny.

Born into a large Norwegian aristocratic family where everyone was required to play musical instrument, until the age of twelve, Edward did not imagine that music would make him one of the greatest "descendants of the Vikings." But the young man caught the eye of the famous violinist Olle Bull, and he managed to discern the future great musician in Grieg.

Then the composer made friends with Hans Christian Andersen and Henrik Ibsen, and they saw him as a singer folk art, capable of calling from oblivion trolls and valkyries, gods and villains of the Scandinavian epic, Icelandic legends, Norwegian sagas.

Grieg's music is strong, impetuous, like waves crashing against mighty rocks, like thunder over stormy fjords. She absorbed everything that mysterious Scandinavia is rich in. The grain of the great composer's talent lay on the fertile soil of Scandinavian folk art, unique, original, unlike anything else.

Grieg managed to glorify the sea and mountains, snow and salt, dark caves and blue skies of Norway, Denmark, Sweden for the whole world. Speaking in harmony with Andersen, Ibsen, folklorist Lindemann, Grieg created powerful, impetuous, bright and melodic plays, songs, romances, concerts.

More than six hundred works inextricably link him with the Norwegian land, put his name on a par with the greatest people Scandinavia - kings, inventors, warriors, poets and storytellers.

Edvard Grieg for children

As children's composer Grieg reveals the wealth of fabulous Scandinavian folklore, creates unforgettable melodies that tell about trolls, gnomes, kobolds, about deeds and heroes, about deceit that is punished and virtue that is rewarded.

Among the most popular works Grieg, written for children - " Procession of the Dwarves" (or " March of the Dwarves”), known to almost everyone for its dynamic, vibrant melody, which is used in many fairy tales, cartoons and theatrical productions.

The melody of this work seems to contain the sound of an underground drop and the rumble of hurried steps along the underground corridors, a feeling of anxiety and brotherhood, vain haste and solid majesty of the huge mountains where the gnomes live. In this work, Grieg reveals a fairy tale that lives side by side with every child, in the nearest forest or hill.

Another no less curious work, which, like the "March of the Gnomes", is an integral part of the training program for young musicians who can not only hear, but also revive with their fingers old fairy tale – « Kobold».

The story is about hurried and timid mountain kobolds. Fast, filled with a change of jumping rhythms, as if kobolds are rushing about under the arches of rocks or between trees in the forest, it makes you feel everything that the Scandinavian culture hides between the pages of ancient legends.

And finally, for those who are already able to appreciate not only the fabulous, but also instructive - "Peer Gynt". Edvard Grieg helped his friend, the writer Heinrich Ibsen, revive his panoramic work Peer Gynt, turning it into a musical suite. In a work where the fabulous replaces the ordinary, and the melodies change from powerful and heavy to light and gentle, walking on the heels of an adventurer and his own destiny, the protagonist of a young man named Peer Gynt, who managed to be the king of the Bedouins and the emperor in a madhouse.

The music brings us to a soft, melodic, dramatic finale, showing that the most important thing in life is to be yourself. After all, as the music echoes the words of the play, Peer Gynt was only real with his beloved Solveig in the forest hut, where he returns at the end of his life in order to find peace again with the one who had been waiting for her fairy-tale hero for many years.

Such is the composer Grieg - bright and instructive, powerful and significant, revealing the secrets Scandinavian legends in music. In music that has remained in history forever, as long as the Norwegian rocks washed by the sea will stand.

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Norwegian composer of the Romantic period, musical figure, pianist, conductor. Grieg's work was formed under the influence of Norwegian folk culture.

Among the most famous works Grieg - two suites from music to Henrik Ibsen's drama "Peer Gynt", a concerto for piano and orchestra, violin sonatas.

norwegian fantasy

The work of Edvard Grieg absorbed the typical features of the Norwegian musical folklore- epic and lyrical songs skalds, melodies of the shepherd's alpine horn, labor and everyday songs. This folklore has been formed over many centuries, and its features have been entrenched in XIV-XVI centuries. A significant role in them was played by the reproduction of images of nature, characters of Norwegian folk tales about underworld- gnomes, kobolds, trolls, brownies, mermen (for example, "Procession of the Dwarves" and "Kobold" from "Lyric Pieces", "In the Cave of the Mountain King" from "Peer Gynt").

Trollhaugen (Troll Hill)

Trollhaugen - (Norwegian Troldhaugen; Troll Hill) - the house of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, located near his hometown, Bergen. The composer himself called this house his best creation and actively participated in its creation.

The ashes of the composer and his wife are buried in a mountain grave near the house. House, work hut, estate and surrounding area - now open museum Grieg.

Edward Grieg. Major works (9)

The most famous writings. If you didn't find it in the list famous composition, please indicate it in the comments so that we can add the work to the list.

The works are ordered by popularity (recognizability) - from the most popular to the least popular. For the purpose of familiarization, the most famous fragment of each melody is offered.

• № 1: Edvard Grieg "Peer Gynt. Dance of Anitra"
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  Rich Per dreams of power and glory. Traveling through the hot Arabian desert, Peer Gynt comes to the leader of the Bedouin tribe. Chief's daughter Anitra - tries to charm Per with her beauty.

• № 2: Edvard Grieg "Peer Gynt. In the cave of the mountain king"
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  In the cave of the mountain king (Norwegian I Dovregubbens Hall) - a composition from the suite of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg to Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt".

• № 4: Edvard Grieg "Peer Gynt. Solveig's Song"
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  Solveig's song sounded several times in the performance. She became a symbol of love and fidelity. The sad and tender melody of the song is one of Grieg's most inspired creations.

• № 5: Edvard Grieg "March of the Trolls (Procession of the Dwarves)"
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  March of the Trolls (in another translation - "Procession of the Dwarves") - an essay from the fifth cycle of lyrical plays (op. 54). Who is actually marching: trolls or gnomes?

Introduction

1 The work of Edvard Grieg

2 Features of Grieg's music

Conclusion

So, the purpose of this work is to consider the work of Edvard Grieg and identify him as the founder Norwegian classics. To do this, the following questions need to be addressed:

1. The work of Edvard Grieg

2. Features of Grieg's music

3. Edvard Grieg as the founder of the Norwegian classics.

1 The work of Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in June 1843. His ancestors were Scots (by the name of Greig - the famous Russian admirals S.K. and A.S. Greigi - also belonged to this family). The family was musical. Mother - a good pianist - taught the children music herself.

Bergen, where Grieg was born, was famous for its national traditions especially in the field of theater; Henrik Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Bjørsnon started their activities here; Ole Bull was born here, it was he who first drew attention to a gifted boy (Grieg composes at the age of 12), and advises his parents to assign him to the Leipzig Conservatory.

Grieg, without pleasure, later recalled the years of conservatory education - the conservatism of his teachers, their isolation from life. However, his stay there gave him a lot: the level musical life was quite high, and outside the conservatory, Grieg joined the music contemporary composers, he especially liked Schumann and Chopin.

Creative research Grieg warmly supported Ole Bull - during joint travels in Norway, he devoted his young friend to secrets folk art. And soon it became clear personality traits Grieg style. No wonder they say - if you want to join the folklore of Norway - listen to Grieg.

More and more he perfected his talent in Christiania (now Oslo). Here he writes great amount his most famous works. It is here that his famous second violin sonata, one of his most favorite works, is born. But Grieg's work and his life in Christiania were full of struggle for the recognition in music of the folk color of Norwegian art, he had many enemies, opponents of such innovations in music. Therefore, he especially remembered the friendly power that Liszt showed him. By that time, having taken the rank of abbot, Liszt lived in Rome and did not personally know Grieg. But, having heard the first violin sonata, he was delighted with the freshness and extraordinary color of the music, and sent an enthusiastic letter to the author. He told him: "Keep going in the same spirit .... - and don't let yourself be intimidated!..." This letter played a big role in Grieg's biography: Liszt's moral support strengthened the national principle in Edward's musical work.

And soon Grieg leaves Christiania and settles in his native Bergen. The next, last, long period of his life begins, marked by great creative successes, public recognition at home and abroad.

This period of his life opens with the creation of music for Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt". It was this music that made the name of Grieg famous in Europe. All his life, Grieg dreamed of creating a national opera that would use images of folk historical traditions and the heroics of the sagas. In this he was helped by communication with Bierston, with his work (by the way, many Grieg's works were written on his texts).

Grieg's music is gaining great popularity, penetrating the concert stage and home life. A feeling of deep sympathy evokes the appearance of Edvard Grieg as a person and an artist. Responsive and gentle in dealing with people, in his work he was distinguished by honesty and integrity. Interests native people were above everything to him. That is why Grieg emerged as one of the largest realistic artists of his time. In recognition of his artistic merits, Grieg is elected a member of a number of academies in Sweden, Holland and other countries.

Over time, Grieg increasingly eschews the noisy life of the capital. In connection with the tour, he has to visit Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, Prague, Warsaw, while in Norway he lives in seclusion, mainly outside the city, first in Lufthus, then near Bergen in his estate, called Troldhaugen, that is, "Hill trolls", and devotes most of his time to creativity.

And yet he does not give up musical - social work. In the summer of 1898 he organized the first Norwegian music Festival , where all the major musical figures of that time gather. The outstanding success of the Bergen festival brought everyone's attention to Grieg's homeland. Norway could now consider itself an equal participant in the musical life of Europe!

On June 15, 1903, Grieg celebrated his sixtieth birthday. From all over the world, he received about five hundred congratulatory telegrams (!) The composer could be proud: it means that his life was not in vain, it means that he brought joy to people with his work.

2 Features of Grieg's music

Grieg's music resonates with the bewitching beauty of Norwegian nature, sometimes majestic, sometimes modest. The simplicity of musical expression and at the same time its originality, national flavor, originality of images captivate the listener. “No wonder,” wrote P. I. Tchaikovsky, that everyone loves Grieg, that he is popular everywhere!..” Like Glinka in Russia, Grieg was the founder of the Norwegian musical classics.

Grieg's creative path coincided with the heyday of Norwegian culture, with the growth of its national self-consciousness, with the process of becoming a national composer school. In history musical cultures northern Europe, it began somewhat later. Grieg, with his work, influenced not only the composers of the Scandinavian countries, but also European music generally.

Edvard Grieg was born on June 15, 1843 in the city of Bergen, which has long been famous for its national artistic traditions. The largest Norwegian playwrights, G. Ibsen and B. Bjornson, created their beautiful creations here, the famous violinist Ole Bull, nicknamed the “Paganini of the North”, who was the first to see Grieg’s extraordinary musical ability and later, during joint travels in Norway, introduced the young man to the riches of folk art.

Grieg's mother, a good pianist, taught her children music from childhood. Both Edward and his older brother John graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory. Then improving his composing skills in the musical center of Scandinavia - Copenhagen, Edvard Grieg became friends with the young patriotic composer Richard Nurdrok, the author of the music for the national anthem of Norway. This friendship finally determined the ideological and artistic aspirations of Edward, who decided to give all his strength to the development of Norwegian music.

Upon returning to his homeland, Grieg lives in the capital of Norway - Christiania (now Oslo). He heads the Philharmonic Society, performs as a pianist and composes intensively. Here appeared the famous piano concerto op. 16, second violin sonata op. 13, vocal and piano miniatures.

Like many romantic composers, Grieg turned to the piano throughout his life, capturing personal life impressions in piano miniatures, like a diary. Grieg considered himself a member of the Schumann school and, like Schumann, appears in piano music novelist narrator. He created about 150 piano pieces, of which 70 are collected in ten “Lyric Notebooks”.

Two main figurative spheres dominate Grieg's music. The first continues the tradition of "house music". These are mostly lyrical statements. Another sphere of images is associated with folk song and dance, with the genre specificity of dance improvisations of folk violinists. Grieg reflected in his music the enthusiasm of the fast-paced pair jumping dance “springar”, the young spirit of the male solo dance “halling” (dance of “youth”), the character of the solemn dance-procession “gangar”, without which village weddings are indispensable.

Based on the characteristics of these and other folk dances rhythmic intonations Grieg created musical scenes from folk life(play “Wedding day in Troll-haugen”, op. 19). Whimsical images of Norwegian folk fiction; dwarves, trolls, etc. have found an original embodiment in well-known piano pieces (“Procession of the Dwarves”, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, “Kobold”, etc.). Romantic national imagery and features of Norwegian folk melodics determined the originality of Grieg's musical style.

In 1874, Ibsen, one of the most talented writers in Norway, invited Grieg to write music for the production of his drama Peer Gynt. Grieg became interested in work and created beautiful music that became independent artwork(like Bizet's "Arlesian" or "Sleep in midsummer night” Mendelssohn). The production of the drama was a huge success.

Ibsen's work, saturated with socio-philosophical generalizations, contributed to the creation of deeply meaningful music and the musical revelation of the sublime lyricism of the main image of the devotedly loving Solveig in Grieg's work, who does not tire of waiting for many years for her Peer Gynt, a dreamer and dreamer who has not found himself in life. After wandering around foreign countries, having wasted his spiritual strength, he returns to Solveig as an old man.

Ibsen devoted the most poetic pages of his drama to the image of Solveig, foreseeing the role of music in the creation of this image. Grieg with great artistic flair conveyed the essence of Solveig's image - spiritual purity and fortitude. Her song is woven from the most characteristic lyrical intonations of folk Norwegian songwriting. The wonderful tune of the piano introduction is close to the thoughtful tunes of the horn and creates the image of a lonely forest hut in the mountains, where Per Solveig patiently waits.

The smooth melody of Solveig's song is modest and at the same time majestic. The light, gentle dance chorus conveys the light of youth preserved in the soul of the heroine.

Grieg, personality musical style which is generally determined by its connection with the Norwegian folk music, brought Ibsen's play closer to the folk-poetic style with his music. The composer's words that Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" is "as national as it is genius and deep" can be applied to his music as well.

The national principle was clearly manifested in his excellent writings vocal lyrics. Grieg published one hundred and twenty-five songs and romances. Grieg's attraction to vocal lyrics is associated with the flowering of Scandinavian poetry, with the work of Ibsen, Bjornson, Andersen. He addresses mainly the poets of Denmark and Norway. AT vocal music Grieg is superbly presented poetic paintings nature, images of “forest romance”. The themes of his songs are rich, but with all the thematic diversity, Grieg's music retains a single mood: cordiality and immediacy of emotional expression - important property his vocal compositions.

AT last years composer's life, his music acquired world fame. Grieg's works are published by major publishing houses, performed on the stage and at home. Grieg, in recognition of his artistic merits, is elected a member of the Swedish, French, Leiden (in Holland) academies, and a doctor of Oxford University.

Grieg's music is immediately recognizable. Its special expressiveness and memorability are associated with the bright song richness of Norway, which was almost never revealed before. Sincerely, with great warmth, Grieg told the world about his fairyland. This touching sincerity and sincerity excites and makes his music close and understandable to everyone.

3 Edvard Grieg as the founder of the Norwegian classics

In the second half of the XIX century. realism was established in foreign musical art. Increased desire for democratization musical art. Composers increasingly boldly began to turn to everyday scenes and scenes from the life of the working people.

Best Realistic Aspirations french music reflected French composer Georges Wiese (1838 - 1875). Wiese's short life (only 37 years old) was filled with intense creative work. He joined the world of music from childhood.

Vize's talent manifested itself in different areas musical creativity. Among his compositions - Symphony, 3 operettas, several cantatas and overtures, piano pieces, romances, songs. However, the main place in his legacy was occupied by opera. Already in one of the most significant works- the opera "The Pearl Seekers" - the main features of his operatic style were clearly outlined: bright melody, colorful folk scenes, colorful orchestra.

Vize's original talent appeared with special force in his brilliant opera Carmen (based on the short story by P. Mérimée). Building on the best achievements operatic art, Vize created the genre of realistic musical drama in Carmen. The music of the opera introduces the listener into the world strong feelings and passions, captivates with the veracity of the depiction of characters and rapid development actions. It sensitively reflects the dynamics and complexity of the relationship between the main characters - the wayward gypsy Carmen and Jose. The highest achievement in the opera was the image of Carmen. Opera of the 19th century like this heroine. didn't know yet. This image was created by the composer on the basis of Spanish and gypsy folk songs, incendiary rhythms characteristic of the music of these peoples. The bright and psychologically correct portrayal of Carmen's character sometimes reaches a truly tragic grandeur. "

Romance melodies close to the Italian operatic style predominate in the part of Jose. The image of the bullfighter Escamillo, outlined in just a few strokes, is no less vivid.

The drama of the heroes takes place against the background of various pictures of folk life. In the choral scenes of the opera, Wiese departs from the usual interpretation of the people as a solid mass. It's bubbling up here real life,"its brilliance and temperament. The composer skillfully combines folk paintings with the personal drama of the characters.

The enormous popularity of the opera is due not only to the brilliant music, but also to Wiese's truly innovative approach to showing on opera stage ordinary people, their feelings, experiences, passions.

At the premiere on March 3, 1875, the opera failed, but after 10 months it was a success. P.I. Tchaikovsky, having become acquainted with Wiese's masterpiece in 1876, prophetically wrote: "In 10 years, Carmen will be the most popular opera in the world." Carmen is considered the pinnacle of French realistic opera, one of the masterpieces of world opera classics.

The outstanding composer, pianist, conductor Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) is considered the founder of Norwegian classical music. All his works are imbued with national Norwegian intonations; they reflect life home country, its nature and way of life. The enchanting beauty of Norwegian nature sounds either majestic or modest.

Grieg's creative path coincided with the heyday of Norwegian culture, with the growth of its national self-consciousness, with the process of the formation of a national school of composition. Grieg created about 150 piano pieces. He played the piano throughout his life.

In 1874, one of the most talented writers in Norway, Ibsen, invited Grieg to write music for the production of his drama Peer Gynt. Grieg became interested in "work and created beautiful music that became an independent work of art. The music for the drama Peer Gynt brought world recognition E. Grigou. The composer embodied the characters in the music folk legends and legends, creatively rethinking the dramatic images of Henrik Ibsen's play. With great artistic flair, he conveyed the essence of Solveig's image - spiritual purity. The national principle was clearly manifested in the excellent compositions of Grieg's vocal lyrics.

In the last years of the composer's life, his music gained worldwide fame. Grieg's music is immediately recognizable. Its special expressiveness and memorability are associated with the bright song richness of Norway. With great warmth, Grieg told the world about his fairy-tale country.

Like Glinka in Russia, Grieg was the founder of Norwegian classical music.

Conclusion

So, we examined the work of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and identified him as the founder of the Norwegian classical music. Now we can draw conclusions.

The work of Grieg, the most prominent representative of the Norwegian school of composition, which absorbed the influence German romanticism, deeply national.

Predominantly a miniaturist, Grieg distinguished himself as a master of the pianoforte (" Lyric plays» and other cycles) and chamber vocal music. brightly individual style Grieg, a subtle colorist, is in many ways close to musical impressionism. Interpreting the sonata form in a new way, as a “pictorial alternation of images” (B. V. Asafiev) (strings, quartet, 3 sonatas for violin and piano, sonata for cello and piano, sonata for piano), Grieg dramatized and symphonized the form of variations ( "Old Norse Romance with Variations" for orchestra, "Ballad" for piano, etc.). A number of works embodied the images of folk legends and tales (parts from the music for the play by Peer Gynt, the piano pieces "Procession of the Dwarves", "Kobold").

Processed Norwegian folk melodies. Under the influence of Norwegian folklore, Grieg's characteristic stylistic devices and features of harmony and rhythm (wide use of the Lydian and Dorian modes, organ points, folk dance rhythms, etc.).

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• Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 7 (1865)
• Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in F major, op. 8 (1865)
• "In Autumn" for piano four hands, op. 11, also for orchestra (1866)
• Lyric Pieces, 10 collections, from 1866 (op. 12) to 1901 (op. 71).
• Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano in G major, op. 13 (1867)
• Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 16 (1868)
• Sigurd the Crusader, op. 22, music for a play by Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1872)
• "Peer Gynt", op. 23, music for a play by Henrik Ibsen (1875)
• String Quartet G minor, op. 27 (1877-1878)
• Norwegian Dances for piano four hands, op. 35, also for orchestra (1881)
• Sonata for cello and piano, op. 36 (1882)
• Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano in C minor, op. 45 (1886-1887)
• Symphonic Dances, op. 64 (1898).

Grieg's legacy

Today, the work of Edvard Grieg is highly revered, especially in Norway. Leif Ove Andsnes, one of the most famous modern Norwegian musicians, actively performs his compositions as a pianist and conductor. Grieg's plays are used in artistic and cultural events. Various musical performances, scripts are staged figure skating and other performances.

"Trollhaugen", where the composer lived part of his life, has become a house-museum open to the public. Here, visitors are shown the native walls of the composer, his estate, and interiors. Things that belonged to the composer - a coat, a hat and a violin - still hang on the wall of his working house. Near the estate there is a statue of Grieg in life size and his work hut is worth it.

In modern culture

• Carl Stalling, composer for Warner Bros., often used the tune from the play "Morning" to illustrate morning scenes in cartoons.
• musical performance The Colorful Chimney Sweep (1957), based on a story by the Brothers Grimm, used exclusively Grieg's music.
• The musical The Song of Norway (1970) is based on the events of Grieg's life and uses his music.
• Rainbow - Hall of the Mountain King (album Stranger in Us All, 1995) is a hard rock composition based on the music of the play "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with lyrics by Candice Knight (wife of Ritchie Blackmore, the band's guitarist). The song Vikingtid by the Russian pagan metal band Butterfly Temple from the album "Dreams of the North Sea" also contains fragments of this work by Grieg.
• First part piano concerto used in the Adrian Lyne film Lolita (1997).

Edvard Grieg is a great Norwegian composer, outstanding pianist and conductor. Grieg created truly immortal works and glorified the Norwegian people. Most of his writings are based on Norwegian folk songs and dancing.

Edvard Grieg was born in 1843. He started playing music very early. First he studied piano, then studied music theory and composition. In 1858 he entered the Leipzig Conservatory, from which he successfully graduated in 1862. Grieg's teachers were I. Moscheles in the piano class and K. Reinecke in the composition class. After graduating from the conservatory, Edward continued to study composition with the famous teacher N. Gade, moving to Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen, Grieg wrote his first works, which brought him fame. Here Edward meets the composer Nurdrok, who provided a huge impact on the formation of the style of Grigov's works. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Edvard Grieg, together with R. Nurdrok, E. Horneman and other composers, organized the Scandinavian musical community "Euterpa". In the seventies, Grieg lives in Oslo, where he takes an active part in cultural and public life countries in close contact with influential people Norway.

On the poems of the Norwegian playwright B. Bjornson, Grieg writes whole line works, among which it is worth noting the opera "Olaf Trygvason", music for the play "Sigurd Yursalfar", sketches for the opera "Arnlüt Helline", melodrama for a reader and orchestra "Bergliot", as well as a huge number of songs. In 1871, Grieg again organizes a musical community that still exists today - the Philharmonic Society.

Eldvard Grieg's fame peaked at the end of the nineteenth century. In the eighties and nineties of this century, the composer toured a lot, giving concerts of his own music, acting as a performer and conductor. In 1898, Edvard Grieg organized the first Norwegian music festival in history. These festivals are still held today. The composer died in 1907.

Brief list of works by Edvard Grieg

For choir, soloists and orchestra:

• Bergliot (1885),
• At the gates of the monastery (1870-71),
• Homecoming (1881),
• In captivity of the mountains (1878),

For orchestra:

• Symphony in C minor, (1863-64),
• Concert Overture "In Autumn" (1866),
• Peer Gynt (1888)
• Sigurd the Crusader (1892),
• Symphonic Dances on Norwegian Themes (1898),
• lyric suite,
• Bell ringing (1904),

For string orchestra:

• 2 elegiac melodies (1883),
• From the time of Holberg (1884-1885),
• 2 melodies (on the themes of his own songs, 1890)
• Norwegian melodies on the themes of folk songs,

Concerts with orchestra