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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Composer of the Week: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Episode 2: Fruitful Partnerships

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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

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Episode 2: Fruitful Partnerships

Fruitful Partnerships

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Fruitful Partnerships

Donald Macleod introduces music Grieg wrote with Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Henrik Ibsen.

Donald Macleod introduces music Grieg wrote in collaboration with two of Norway's most important writers: Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Henrik Ibsen.

In the crucial period of the early 1870s when Grieg was working to establish himself in Oslo, it was the association he formed with the two most prominent Norwegian writers Henrik Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Björnson which probably did more for his standing there than anything else. Donald Macleod introduces two works he collaborated on with Björnson based on tales from the old Norse sagas, and the first of the concert suites Grieg famously made from the incidental music written to accompany Ibsen's Peer Gynt.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and music of composer, pianist and conductor Edward Grieg

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of multi-talented Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor Edward Grieg, who is today regarded as the foremost Scandinavian composer of his generation

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