Edvard grieg

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg, in full Edvard Hagerup Grieg, (born June 15, 1843, Bergen, Nor.—died Sept. 4, 1907, Bergen), composer who was a founder of the Norwegian nationalist school of music. His father, Alexander Grieg, was British consul at Bergen. The Grieg (formerly Greig) family was of Scottish origin, the composer’s grandfather having emigrated after the Battle of Culloden. His mother, Gesine Hagerup, who belonged to a well-established Norwegian family, studied music at Hamburg. From the age of…

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Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869. In 1871 he left Oslo to study at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. Later that year he moved to Karlsruhe, where he was a student of Ludwig des Coudres and Wilhelm Riefstahl at Die Grossherzoglische Kunstschule . In the fall of 1873 Peterssen travelled to Munich where he got Wilhelm von Diez as a teacher. In Munich Peterssen was partly a pupil of Franz von…

Artist: H. Abel Date/place: Xania (Oslo) Subject: NIna & Edvard Grieg Medium: photographic positive, B&W Notes: Nina & Edvards signatur on the picture Persistent URL: Original belongs to the Edvard Grieg Archives at Bergen Public Library Original reference: EGM0281

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg.

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