Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . THE LISZT MEMORIAL CHAPEL AT EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG NORWAYS FOLK SONG HERITAGE IN a life of only sixty-four years, the Nor-wegian composer, Edvard Grieg (1813-1907), was enabled to draw to his nativeland the sympathetic attention of the outerworld by a worthy example of political andartistic nationalism. For his own Norway hehad broadened and refined those rich musi-cal elements which were there inherent. Upto the present, beyond the great masters thatare for all men there have been few greatenough to seize upon the national idiom andto tr
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . THE LISZT MEMORIAL CHAPEL AT EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG NORWAYS FOLK SONG HERITAGE IN a life of only sixty-four years, the Nor-wegian composer, Edvard Grieg (1813-1907), was enabled to draw to his nativeland the sympathetic attention of the outerworld by a worthy example of political andartistic nationalism. For his own Norway hehad broadened and refined those rich musi-cal elements which were there inherent. Upto the present, beyond the great masters thatare for all men there have been few greatenough to seize upon the national idiom andto translate it into terms comprehensible tothose for whom that idiom has no herein lies the greatness of Grieg, whohas implanted upon the melodies of Nor-way the impress of his own genius, so thatthrough him all nations have grown to loveand delight in a new world of music, vivid,picturesque and entrancing. But Grieg didnot merely take the sad and somber songsor the lively dances of the North andpresent them to civilization in exquisiteform, for quite the largest part of h
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