| Bust of Edvard Grieg | |
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| Artist | Finn Frolich |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Subject | Edvard Grieg |
| Location | Seattle |
| 47°39′23″N122°18′22″W / 47.65639°N 122.30611°W | |
A bronze bust of Edvard Grieg by Finn Frolich is installed in Grieg Garden on the University of Washington campus in Seattle's University District, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] [2]
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. 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.
The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg in 1868, was the only concerto Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works and is among the most popular of the genre.
Song of Norway is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran. A very loose film adaptation with major changes to both the book and music was released in 1970.
"Morning Mood" is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. 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. 1, Op. 46.
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is a Norwegian orchestra based in Bergen. Its principal concert venue is the Grieg Hall.
Grieg Hall is a 1,500 seat concert hall located on Edvard Griegs' square in Bergen, Norway.
Peer Gynt, Op. 23, is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1875. It premiered along with the play on 24 February 1876 in Christiania.
Song of Norway is a 1970 American biographical drama musical film adaptation of the successful operetta of the same name, directed by Andrew L. Stone.
The music of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg has been used extensively in media, music education, and popular music.
Uta Weyand is a German pianist, who started her concert career in 1989. She is the daughter of musicians including a chair conductor and an organist. She studied in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), Baltimore (USA) and Madrid (Spain) with Elza Kolodin, Vitaly Margulis, Leon Fleisher and Joaquín Soriano. She has performed with the Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Nuremberg and Bamberg orchestras and with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the National Orchestra of Brazil.
Sigvald Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian-born American sculptor.
Finn Benestad was a Norwegian musicologist and music critic. He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1998, and is probably best known for his long-term research on composer Edvard Grieg.
Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe was a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of professor. His research mainly centered on the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren is a biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, written by Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1980.
An outdoor bust of Senator Henry M. Jackson is installed on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington's University District, in the United States. It is located outside Thomson Hall, home to the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and sits opposite a bust of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
Frederiksberg Campus is one of the four main campuses of University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located in Frederiksberg and is home to large parts of the Faculty of Science' activities within the fields of natural science and biosciences as well as part of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, including the University Hospital for Companion Animals. The main campus is located on the west side of Bülowsvej, on both sides of Thorvaldsensvej and Rolighedsvej. It occupies the former grounds of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL) which was merged into the University of Copenhagen in 2007. The main building at Bülowsvej No. 17 is from 1895.
The Concert Grove is a section of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City, that historically functioned as an outdoor music venue. It still serves as a sculpture garden lined with busts of musical figures, largely put up by German American Sängerfest participants and other cultural groups. The Concert Grove also includes the Concert Grove Pavilion, formerly known as the Oriental Pavilion, and adjoins a Lincoln sculpture facing the lake.
Hella Maria Brock was a German music educator, musicologist, and an internationally known Edvard Grieg scholar. Brock was professor of music and English studies at the Leipzig University. She was president, and honorary president of the Grieg-Begegnungsstätte in Leipzig until her death in 2020.
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