Edvard Grieg

About Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg is Norway's national composer and the central figure of Norwegian Romantic-nationalist music. Born in Bergen in 1843, he drew on Norwegian folk melody and the landscape of the western fjords to build a body of work that made Norwegian music legible to the world. His incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, including In the Hall of the Mountain King and Morning Mood, and his Piano Concerto in A minor are among the most-performed works in the classical repertoire. His Bergen home, Troldhaugen, is now a museum and concert hall.