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Updated: June 28, 2025
Carola moved about in the shadow, lighting the candles on the mantle-piece and the tall lamp beside the piano. "Now," she said, "let us talk a little." He hesitated a moment, and answered: "I would rather hear you play." "You are as decided and dictatorial as ever," she laughed; "but this time you shall have your way. What will you have a bit of Chopin or Grieg?
"It's curious; sometimes it seemed to me that it was you who were playing." Mary laughed. "I? I strum! Piano. A little Chopin Grieg Chaminade. You wouldn't listen!" Bibbs drew a deep breath. "I'm frightened again," he said, in an unsteady voice. "I'm afraid you'll think I'm pushing, but " He paused, and the words sank to a murmur. "Oh, if you want ME to play for you!" she said. "Yes, gladly.
Another good fortune was a request from the distinguished poet, Henrik Ibsen, to produce music for his drama of "Peer Gynt." With the help of the annuity Grieg was able to give up teaching and conducting and devote himself to composition. He left Christiania, where he and Mme. Grieg had resided for eight years, and came back for a time to Bergen.
It was also the home of Niels W. Gade, the foremost Scandinavian composer. Of course Grieg was eager to meet Gade, and an opportunity soon occurred. Gade expressed a willingness to look at some of his compositions, and asked if he had anything to show him. Edward modestly answered in the negative. "Go home and write a symphony," was the retort.
"That tune fairly gives me the hump," said Leonard. Jacky followed this, and said that, for her part, she thought it a lovely tune. "No; I'll play you something lovely. Get up, dear, for a minute." He went to the piano and jingled out a little Grieg. He played badly and vulgarly, but the performance was not without its effect, for Jacky said she thought she'd be going to bed.
Caruso, Melba, Paderewski, Mischa Elman, Harry Lauder, Sousa, Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner, Brahms, Grieg, Moszkowsky, the "latest song hit" from anything you please. Ask and you will find along this thoroughfare. There are no more prosperous looking bazaars on this street than those consecrated to the sale of "musical phonographs" of every make.
Modern music has shown the same tendency: Strauss of Vienna writes waltzes in Arab rhythms, Grieg composes a Scotch symphony, Dvorak writes an American national anthem utilizing negro melodies.
Lassen, Grieg, Rubinstein all these were carried through rather cautiously, perhaps a little mechanically; and there was a silence. Hortense broke it. "Parnassus, yes. And finally comes Apollo." She reached over and murmured to Mrs. Phillips: "None too skillful on the lyre, and none too strong in the lungs...." Medora spoke up loudly and promptly.
The most eminent choral leaders in Norway have been Johan D. Behrens, F.A. Reissinger, and O.A. Gröndahl. The Norwegian Musical Union has also been active in the development of tonal ideals. Its aim has been to provide chamber concerts of a high order. Grieg and Svendsen were its first conductors.
This the young composer started obediently to do, but the work was never finished in this form. It became later Two Symphonic Pieces for Piano, Op. 14. Two sources of inspiration for Grieg were Ole Bull and Richard Nordraak. We remember that Ole Bull was the means of influencing his parents to send Edward to Leipsic. That was in 1858.
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