Edvard Grieg Biography

Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician, and played the double bass for a time at the Karl Schultze Theatre, and later in the Stadttheater orchestra. In 1847 Johannes attended a good Burgerschule (citizens? school), and in 1848 a better, that of one Hoffmann. When he was eight

Born on March 2,1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts Theodore Seuss Geisel made his way into the world. His mother Henrietta and Theodore were very busy people. His father managed the

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the greatest composers and a musical genius. Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany and died on March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria. Beethoven came from a family of musicians just like many other great composers before him had. At the age of only 11 Beethoven began serving as an assistant to the court organist and had several published piano compositions at the age of 12. At the age of 18, he became the legal guardian of both of his younger brothers, after the death of his mother and dismissal of his father from the court choir because of alcoholism. By this team Beethoven was also a court organist, violinist and responsible for composing and performing.

Simon Wiesenthal ( December 1908 – September 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer.He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II.

Edward Theodore Gein was born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin in 1906. The second son of George Philip and Augusta Wilhelmine Gein. Augusta despised her husband, an alcoholic who was unable to keep a job. He worked various times as a carpenter and an insurance salesman. Augusta owned a local grocery shop and later sold it in 1914 for a farm to live in isolation near Plainfield, Wisconsin, which was there permanent home.

On 17 December 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was born. He was an amazing and great classical musical composer. He is known for being the most famous composer of the classical and romantic periods of music. According to the “Enjoyment of Music” manual, Beethoven was born in Bohn, Germany. His father, with his grandfather, was the two singers at the court of a local prince, Friedrich Max. (Forney and Machlis 197).

Ed Viesturs was born on July 22, 1959, in Fort Wayne, Indiana and he was raised in Rockford, Illinois. Ed Viesturs graduated from the University of Washington with a BS in zoology. He had once became a doctor in veterinary medicine. Ed Viesturs worked as a guide for Rainer Mountaineering. Later

Gustav Holst, born in Cheltenham in September 1847, is still today considered to be one of the greatest music composers of all time. He was not very fond of music when he was younger, but he enjoyed the piano. He was sent to Cheltenham Grammar School and forced to take long music lessons, even though he had neuritis in his hands.

Born in 1904, Geisel was raised by his prosperous German-American parents with his older sister in Springfield, Massachusetts. During his early adolescent years, Geisel experienced hardships and bullying which helped fuel his creative mind.

He studied from the Harvard University and also joined the orchestra concerts in Boston as a result of which he was shaped as an artist and thinker which helped him in composing music. He was dedicated towards music and gained success in his path. He received two degrees from Harvard University and now lived in San Francisco Area of the Northern California, where he taught music for ten years and became a real Symphony composer; he became popular for “New and Unusual Music” which includes the Harmonium, Grand Pianola Music, Harmonielehre, My Father Knew Charles Ives, and Absolute Jest.

Elgar was born in the small village Lower Broadheath England to a music dealer. He was the 4th of 7 siblings and was very precocious. Elgar grew up reading the writings of Voltaire and Longfellow, and began taking piano and violin lessons at age 8. Elgar

German composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven, was born December 1770 and spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. His first teacher was his alcoholic father, who worked as a musician at the Court of Bonn. Teaching him day and night, Ludwig suffered from his father's harsh and erratic behavior. For a time, he and his father played at the Church. As his father's alcoholism increased, Ludwig became the main musician.

He was born in the German town of Bonn on the 16th of December 1770. His grandfather Ludwig and his father Johann were both musicians. Johann was to act as little Ludwig's first music teacher, but Ludwig soon changed to the court organist C. G. Neefe. Passing eleven years of age, Ludwig deputized for Neefe, and at twelve had his first music published. He then stayed as Neefe's assistant until 1787, when at seventeen, he took off for Vienna. Even though Vienna was to be his home for the rest of his life, this first visit was short. On hearing that his mother was dying, he quickly returned to Bonn. Five years later he finally moved to Vienna to live and work.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, the Viatka District in Russia on May 7, 1840 to a Russian miner and a mother of French origin. During his early life, Tchaikovsky did receive some musical training from a French governess in the form of piano lessons, but the training did not continue. As a young child, Tchaikovsky's family moved to St. Petersburg because

Now we are standing in front of Edvard and Nina Grieg s house. The live here form 1885 to Edvard Grieg died in 1907, so 22 years. The house were built in 1885 and is located in Nordåsvannet, Hop in Bergen. Today it’s a museum and al furnishings stands like when Grieg live there. Nina, Edvard Grigs wife come up with the name Troldhaugen, because, the house is near Trolddalen. The museum was opened in 1928.