Edvard Grieg Research Paper

Albert Einstein, who arguably contributed more than any other scientist since Sir Isaac Newton to our modern vision of physical reality, is clearly one of the most gifted intellects the world has ever known. In a relatively brief period of time, Einstein changed the way people thought about space, time, gravitation and war.

Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Heartbroken, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is neat, and tidy, whereas Oscar is slovenly and casual. ​

Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 at the Zundart Netherlands. Vincent Van Gogh was a post impressionist. Van Gogh's paintings stand out from other artists of his time. The colors he used most were lemon yellow and blue. His self-portraits are wet with blue background, coat, and eyes, and with a yellow face, beard, and hair. Stars and books, which were his passion, were painted yellow.

John Singer Sargent, an American artist, is regarded as the greatest portrait painter of the early 1900’s. Sargent, like many prominent artists, was exposed to art at a young age. He was encouraged by both parents, who were artist themselves, to draw. This led to his acceptance into École des Beaux-Art School at the age of eighteen. There he was able to study under great artists of that time and his new found love for portraits birthed his career.

Edvard Grieg has been primarily remembered as first a Norwegian, and then a Romantic composer. Those titles are sometimes used to explain, or excuse his music. He has also been accused of being derivative, both of classical music and traditional Norwegian folk music. However, I believe that Edvard Grieg was one of the most important composers of the nineteenth century. While it is true that he stood on the shoulders of giants, and frost giants, his marriage of his country’s music to the piano and the orchestra is truly unique, and shows his incontrovertible

How would it feel to live your life as a failure, but after your death be praised by all? The real Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who had nothing and gave up on life. Many people viewed him as a tenacious and mysterious artist. He died a tragic death feeling like an artistic failure due to a couple of reasons. The first reason was because there were no cures for the mental problems, such as depression, insanity, and epilepsy, that ran in the family. Because of his depression, he felt like an artistic failure, not knowing the fame he would later gain. Van Gogh died as an unknown artist with little money and no cure for an issue that was common throughout his family.

Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway on 15 June 1843. Grieg was raised in a musical home. His mother, who became his first piano teacher, taught him to play from the age of 6. As a teenager, Grieg enrolled in the conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, concentrating on the piano. He also enjoyed the numerous concerts and recitals given in Leipzig. However, Grieg disliked the discipline of the conservatory course of study. Nonetheless, he still achieved very good grades in most areas, an exception being the organ, which was mandatory for piano students. In the spring of 1860, Grieg survived a life-threatening lung disease.

Vincent van Gogh was born with his name and birthdate already etched onto a tombstone.

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous and highly skilled artist. Vincent Van Gogh’s life and paintings show his incredible ability. To begin, Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot Zundert, Holland. A year before his mother had Vincent she had a stillborn boy that she named Vincent as well. His father was a minister and so he grew up being pretty religious. Vincent Van Gogh had no drive to spend time on art or artistic qualities while he was growing up. Van Gogh attended a boarding school in Zevenbergen and King Willem II secondary school in Tilburg when he was young. At the age of fifteen Vincent dropped out of school and never returned.

Elgar soon traveled to Leipzig Germany and Paris France where he spent most of his time attending concerts. During his travels he became greatly influenced by Richard Wagner who was a famous composer of the time. This inspired Elgar to increase his following and to publish some of his pieces. He often found himself financially unable to accomplish this goal. At age 29 he met Caroline Alice Roberts who was the daughter of General Sir Henry Roberts. She began taking music lessons from him and they married 3 years later. Although she was 8 years older than Elgar, and her parents did not approve, she had faith in him and married below her “class”. With his wife’s support he kept pursuing his dreams of becoming a famous composer.

Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, the fifth and youngest son of an impoverished family. His father abandoned the family and he was raised by a strict and tough single mother. In 1928 they moved to Los Angeles, where Pollock enrolled at Manual Arts High School. There he came under the guidance of Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky, a “painter and illustrator who was a member of the Theosophical Society, a group that promoted metaphysical spirituality” (O’Conner). Schwankovsky provided Pollock with basic training in drawing and painting, introduced him to European modern art, and encouraged his interest in theosophical literature. Those theosophical ideas prepared Pollock for his later interests in Surrealism and psychoanalysis.

Galileo Galilei was a great Italian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, whose explorations and discoveries opened new doorways of ideas in the science field.

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter that lived through the Baroque era along with the dutch holden age. He wasn’t exactly wealthy and produced very few paintings. For the most part Vermeer painted domestic interior scenes. His works are largely genre pieces and portraits and his subjects were usually middle-class 17th century Dutch society, anywhere from a milkmaid to higher-class merchantmen. Besides this, he also painted with religious, poetical, musical, and scientific elements. He worked with very expensive pigments and was known was his use of light in his work. He also used many earth colors to portray a warm light within the paintings interior. He was inspired by Leonardo DaVinci’s observation that the surface of an object takes the

     Edvard Munch was born in Norway in 1863; he knew how a person's emotional pain feels. He was the son of an Army Medical Corp doctor who brought patients at home all the time. His mother died when he was only five years of age. His oldest sister died of disease at the age of fifteen. Edvard himself was often ill. One of his youngest sisters was also diagnosed with a

Another influential musician in Norway, Johan Svendsen, was a composer, conductor, and violinist. Svendsen was known for composing larger scale orchestras and ensembles, while Grieg composed for smaller instrumental ensembles. Svendson’s most famous work is his “Romance” for violin and orchestra. Although Svendsen was extremely popular in Norway and Denmark, winning several awards and honors, these honors did not help his music spread very widely.