He studied in several schools, including Tanks Upper Secondary School. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play when he was aged six. Įdvard Grieg was raised in a musical family. Grieg's paternal great-great-grandparents, John (1702-1774) and Anne (1704-1784), are buried in the abandoned churchyard of the ruinous Church of St Ethernan in Rathen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. After the Battle of Culloden in Scotland in 1746, Grieg's great-grandfather, Alexander Greig (1739-1803), travelled widely before settling in Norway about 1770 and establishing business interests in Bergen. The family name, originally spelled Greig, is associated with the Scottish Clann Ghriogair (Clan Gregor). His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and the British Vice-Consul in Bergen and Gesine Judithe Hagerup (1814–1875), a music teacher and daughter of solicitor and politician Edvard Hagerup. Background Įdvard Grieg (1891), portrait by Eilif PeterssenĮdvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway (then part of Sweden–Norway). The Edvard Grieg Museum at Grieg's former home Troldhaugen is dedicated to his legacy. Grieg is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues which depict his image, and many cultural entities named after him: the city's largest concert building ( Grieg Hall), its most advanced music school ( Grieg Academy) and its professional choir (Edvard Grieg Kor). His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. Peer is sitting in his tree using a wrenched-off branch to defend himself against a group of monkeys." Īs the Peer Gynt suites take their pieces out of the original context of the play, "Morning Mood" is not widely known in its original setting, and images of Grieg's Scandinavian origins more frequently spring to the minds of its listeners than those of the desert it was written to depict.Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( / ɡ r iː ɡ/ GREEG, Norwegian: 15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. The scene begins with the following description: "Dawn. The piece depicts the rising of the sun during act 4, scene 1, of Ibsen's play, which finds Peer Gynt stranded in the Moroccan desert after his companions took his yacht and abandoned him there while he slept. It is orchestrated for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and string section. The time signature is 6Ĩ and the tempo instruction is Allegretto pastorale. Unusually, the climax occurs early in the piece at the first forte which signifies the sun breaking through. Written in E major, the melody uses the pentatonic scale and alternates between flute and oboe. 23, written in 1875 as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name, and was also included as the first of four movements in Peer Gynt Suite No. " Morning Mood" (Norwegian: Morgenstemning i ørkenen, lit.'Morning mood in the desert') is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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