Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren (Edvard Grieg. The Man and the Artist) is a biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

, written by Finn Benestad

Finn Benestad

Finn Benestad is a Norwegian musicologist and music critic. He was appointed Professor at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1998, and is probably best known for his long-term research on composer Edvard Grieg.-Life and career:...

 and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe is a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of Professor...

 in 1980.

The book treats the life and works of Edvard Grieg, and includes a comprehensive list of Grieg's works with incipit

Incipit

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s.

Edition history

The book earned Benestad and Schjelderup-Ebbe the Edvard Grieg Prize in 1981. The biography, originally written in Norwegian language

Norwegian language

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, was translated into Russian

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 in 1986 by Nicolay Mochov. An English

English language

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 edition, Edvard Grieg. The Man and the Artist, came in 1988, translated by William H. Halverson and Leland B. Sateren and published by University of Nebraska Press

University of Nebraska Press

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, Lincoln/London. A German

German language

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 edition was published in 1993. A second, revised edition was issued in 1990. Changes in the second edition include material based on a large collection of Grieg's manuscripts and letters rediscovered in New York

New York

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 in 1984, saved from Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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in the 1930s.