A Brief History of Edvard Grieg

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[bifftannen]

Grieg is Awsome. Im proud to be born in Bergen, like Edvard Grieg.

[gonzaloviqueira]

I am really glad you decided to talk about Grieg since I had not listened to his music in quite some time and thanks to these videos I am rediscovering him. Thanks!

[AENYC]

Omg just found u and totally in love with your channel always wanted to find a easy to explain and learn channel u nailed it!!

[dracorex]

I'm an admirer of Grieg, so this is great that you've been covering him and his music. Aside from Norwegian folk music, Grieg was also inspired by numerous composers, some of whom were his contemporaries, and some who have already passed away. Aside from his friendship with Liszt, there was also Chopin. Much like how Scriabin was dubbed the "Chopin of Russia, " Grieg was dubbed the "Chopin of the North, " partly due to writing some compositions that were associated with Chopin like waltzes, mazurkas, nocturnes, etc including sharing similar music styles. Mendelssohn was another influence in Grieg, since his Lyric Pieces followed the format of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. Schumann, his Piano Concerto in A minor had a profound influence on Grieg's piano concerto, especially the opening motifs, and then there's also the composers of older eras that Grieg familiarised himself with like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Speaking of Danish composers, Grieg had a close friendship with a composer by the name of Niels Gade, who he dedicated his piano sonata to. I find Nordic music quite fascinating, and I heard of some other well-known Nordic composers such as Carl Nielsen, also Danish, and Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, all of whom are contemporaries of Grieg.

[VocalEdgeTV]

I hope you’re making a fortune. I love your work!

[sevenonsunday]

Great story, just heard of him, and ready to go listen to more of his music. Thanks for putting this video out!

[richardszalai]

If i saw the thumbnail ... i thought oh a einstein video. i clicked . And then i am like wtf piano tv ... oh its Grieg . Then i laught so hard .

Keep up the good work.

[zali]

At my 10-11 I knew him and since 14 years he is my favorite, I want to visit Bergen, I want to find everything about him. I always wished to find his children, but he had a only daughter and she died early. I don't know what is reason, why he is dear for me so.
My northen Shopen, patriot-Edvard Grieg.. 💫

[nordicsoundchannel]

Great video! I mean no disrespect in adding some comments:
-He was the generation *after Chopin and Liszt. Rather, his contemporaries were Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, etc.
-The 'Friend' that convinced his parents to send him to Leipzig was Ole Bull, a world famous Norwegian violinist who many (including Schumann) preferred to Paganini


-There was singing in Peer Gynt - check out Solveig's song :)
-Personality read: A Norwegian Henry David Thoreau. He was really into nature and everyone got along with him (there's a rather hysterical story involving him, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky at an awkward Christmas dinner where Grieg had to play peacemaker). As someone who spends a lot of time studying him, he was a really genuine and kind man.
-More than hate mail, Grieg had to be escorted out of his Paris concerts after the Dreyfus affair by the police!

Thanks for the video! I'd like to leave some quotes about Grieg from his contemporaries -

Faure: "Among living composers, I know none who enjoys so much popular favor in France as Grieg does; none whose works have so deeply entered our most intimate musical life as his compositions, which we find so natural, charming, so refined, exotic, and individual."

Ravel: "You can’t imagine the power Grieg’s music had in Paris. Suddenly, our windows were open to the country and we were reminded we lived in flats with closed doors and windows, ignoring what are rivers, trees, and birds... then came a musician who had knowledge of all that and used it in his music. It did us a lot of good and everyone was grateful to him. After that we could perceive the mountains and the sea, gnomes and giants, a world that the city had made us forget."

Bartók: "Grieg has to be taken seriously. He is one of the most important composers of the turn of the century. Don't you know he was among the first who cast off the German yoke?"

And even Cage!: "I became so devoted to Grieg that for a while I played nothing else. I even imagined devoting my life to his works alone. I loved them. I would have enjoyed meeting Grieg. He had an independent mind, writing all those fifths when they were forbidden."

[SunriseFireberry]

Grieg had another first cousin besides his wife, that cousin being the maternal grandfather of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Yup, Glenn's mum's maiden name was Grieg. Glenn played his first cousin twice removed's piano music too. Good thing.

[norwegiandreams]

Loved it! Thanks. Keep it up! Hugs from Norway.

[paulalderson]

Grieg also had a friendship with Australian/American composer Percy Grainger. It was a mutual admiration duo.

[chrisgmurray]

Grieg was some of the first music I heard that I really liked. I was six or seven and my mother had records of Griegs which I felt the melody and harmony to be natural. I also heard another album of " The Nutcracker Suite", which I also liked. Later I listened to folk music, perhaps as a result of listening to Grieg's cultural influences, which included a young group of staunch nationalists, eager to preserve the elements of their culture that were stsrting to disappear as Europe became more globalised.

[robertferguson]

I think that this is an excellent educational video, especially as a way to get young people to pay attention and learn something. As for Grieg himself, I think that he is not appreciated as much as he ought to be because he wrote some of the most emotionally moving music I have ever heard. I would to those reading this Grieg's Lyric Suite. You'll see what I mean.

[MeghanLee]

Thank you for this, I am so excited to share this composer history with my friend. I grew up listening to Grieg since I was small and even performed some of his pieces. I relate to the sentiment that he had about feeling as stupid after leaving the music school as when he entered it.
Growing up I went to music schools and so missed out on basic studies like science, geography, mathematics and history. I've had to catch up by watching videos on youtube kind of like this one:)

[amydelery]

The earliest use of the term Asatru that anybody has so far been able to find was in a song written by Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg. It was written around 1873 as part of the third scene of Grieg’s opera, Olav Trygvason, of which only the first act – the Heathen one – was ever written.

[christophervaca]

Grieg's life could be a movie. Especially if liszt shows up.

[banumathi]

Thank you madam for your video love your video from India

[roybalshjoi]

Fun fact, kygo and alan walker are also from bergen norway, same as grieg ;-)

[LetsGoMetsGo]

Considering “morning mood” and “hall of the mountain king”, and Peer Gynt in general, dunno why EG isn’t better known, or appear on greatest composer lists more often.