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Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist of Scottish descent, born in Bergen, Norway on 15 June 1843.
Grieg had a musical upbringing, being taught the piano by his mother at the age of six. In 1858 he was enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied the piano, and made his debut as a concert pianist in 1861 in Karlshamm, Sweden. After his graduation from the conservatory, he spent three years in Copenhagen (1863–66), before returning to Christiana (now Oslo) in Norway. In 1867 he married his cousin Nina Hagerup (1845–1935), who was a Danish-Norwegian lyric soprano.
In 1888 Tchaikovsky and Grieg met at the home of Adolph Brodsky in Leipzig, and the two men found much to admire in each others' music. Later that year Tchaikovsky dedicated his overture-fantasia Hamlet to Grieg.
Edvard Grieg died in Bergen on 4 September 1907, aged 64.
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