Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . riegsown music was played by orchestras duringthe ceremony, and it included the marchwhich he had composed forty years beforefor his friend Nordraak. He had intendedto visit festivals in Leeds and London andnow those programs partook largely of thenature of memorials. Evidencing the loveof home and country to the end, Grieg lefthis estate of $75,000 to musical and dramaticinstitutions in Bergen. For an epitaph let the artist again speak,as he did in the following lines which ap-peared in the Svensk Musik Tidning ofStockholm: Tone poets like Bach an
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . riegsown music was played by orchestras duringthe ceremony, and it included the marchwhich he had composed forty years beforefor his friend Nordraak. He had intendedto visit festivals in Leeds and London andnow those programs partook largely of thenature of memorials. Evidencing the loveof home and country to the end, Grieg lefthis estate of $75,000 to musical and dramaticinstitutions in Bergen. For an epitaph let the artist again speak,as he did in the following lines which ap-peared in the Svensk Musik Tidning ofStockholm: Tone poets like Bach and Beethoven haveerected temples and churches upon high have built abodes where people can feel athome and happy. In style and form I belongto the German Romantic School of I have also imbibed much from the sourceof national music. That is, I have made useof the rich treasures of Norwegian folk melo-dies, and it is from that hitherto little usedemanation of the soul of the people that I havecreated a national musical GRIEG
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