Edvard Grieg Quotes

I gained a sense of why Grieg was so touched by the wistful, elegiac folk music of Norway, and what he meant when he said self-effacingly that his music had a 'taste of cod' about it.

In Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

La chanson de Solveig L'hiver peut s'enfuir, le printemps bien aimé Peut s'écouler. Les feuilles d'automne et les fruits de l'été, Tout peut passer. Mais tu me reviendras, Ô mon doux fiancé, Pour ne plus me quitter. Je t'ai donné mon coeur, il attend résigné, Il ne saurait changer. Que Dieu daigne encore dans sa grande bonté, Te protéger, Au pays lointain qui te tient exilé, Loin du foyer. Moi je t'attends ici, cher et doux fiancé, Jusqu'à mon jour dernier. Je t'ai gardé mon cœur, plein de fidélité, Il ne saurait changer.

With a sigh of disappointment, I leafed through the pages and found some black-and-white plates depicting a tiny woman in theatrical costume, dressed as a country peasant. Below the plate, it read, ‘Anna Landvik som Solveig, September 1876’. I studied the photographs intently, and realised that whoever Anna Landvik was, she’d been very young when the photograph had been taken. Underneath the heavy stage make-up, the girl looked barely older than a child. I leafed through the other plates and saw her as she grew older, and then did a double take as I stared at the familiar features of Edvard Grieg himself. Anna Landvik was standing by a grand piano and Grieg was behind it, applauding her

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Wood Music: A Playlist Foals, ‘Birch Tree’, 2015 Arnold Bax, November Woods, 1917 The Beatles, ‘Norwegian Wood’, 1965 Igor Stravinsky, ‘Berceuse’, from The Firebird, 1910 A Woodland Reading List William Boyce and David Garrick, ‘Heart of Oak’, 1760 George Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, 1913 ——, ‘Loveliest of Trees’, from ‘A Shropshire Lad’, 1911 Editors, ‘I Want a Forest’, 2009 Edward Elgar, String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, 1919 ——, Quintet in A minor, Op., 84, 1918 ——, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, 1919 ——, Owls: An Epitaph, Op. 27, 1907 Keane, ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, 2004 Lindisfarne, Dingly Dell, 1972 Oasis, ‘Songbird’, 2002 Pink Floyd, ‘Careful with That Axe, Eugene’, 1969 Camille Saint-Saëns, ‘Le Coucou au Fond des Bois’ (‘The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Wood’), 1886 Pablo Casals, ‘El Cant dels Ocells’ (‘Song of the Birds’), 1961 Antonín Dvořák, Waldesruhe (‘Silent Woods’) for cello and orchestra, Op. 68, no. 5, 1894 Edvard Grieg, Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, no. 4, ‘Little Bird’, 1886 Franz Liszt, Legende S.175 no. 1, St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds, 1863 Monty Python, ‘The Lumberjack Song’, 1975 Van Morrison, ‘Redwood Tree’, 1972 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ‘Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja’ (‘The Bird- catcher, that’s me’), from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), 1791 George Perlman, ‘A Birdling Sings’, from ‘Ghetto Sketches’, 1931 Pulp, ‘The Trees’, 2001 Radiohead, King of Limbs, 2011 Robert Schumann, ‘Jäger auf der Lauer’ (‘Hunters on the Lookout’), from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, no. 2, 1850–51 ——, ‘Freundliche Landschaft’ (‘Friendly Landscape’), from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, no. 5, 1850–51 Jean Sibelius, ‘The Aspen’, no. 3, ‘The Birch’, no. 4, ‘The Spruce’, no. 5, from Op. 75, ‘The Trees’, 1914–19 Trad., ‘The Trees They Do Grow High’ ——, ‘The Willow Tree’ The Verve, ‘Sonnet’, from Urban Hymns, 1997 Paul Weller, ‘Wild Wood’, 1993