Edvard Grieg: The Romantic Era

When looking throughout the history of music, there is no name with a larger impact than Bach. Writing over 200 pieces throughout his 65 year life. Many people know the names of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms; but only a select few know the specifics about these land mark composers. “Most would say that Beethoven should have been named called ocean instead of brook” Bach in German. During this papers I will be giving a brief look into the life of one of the most prolific composer that ever lived.

Johannes Brahms was a German Composer, Pianist and conductor of the 19th century or the Romantic period. He was one of the 3 B's or the Big three: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Johannes was a very self-critic man he burned many of his pieces before he could get anyone's opinion on them and he burned all of his compositions that he wrote before the age of 19.

Although known for his pianistic abilities Grainger is best known throughout Australia as a composer. He had planned his life as a composer before he was twenty years of age and held true to that plan as best as he could. His arrangements of folk music including ‘Country Gardens’ and ‘Folk Song from Country Derry’ were not what he classed as compositions. Rather his serious compositions include ‘Kipling Jungle Book Cycle’ and ‘The Warriors’ during his quest for free music. Grainger’s folk music are short melodic works that are set in a variety of rhythms, pitches and instruments. During his early years in London he composed a transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Flower Waltz and this sparked a venture into piano transcriptions including Four Irish Dances by Charles Stanford. It was also during this time that he met Edward Grieg, his long time musical hero and inspiration. Whilst in Australia Grainger was first introduced to Grieg by his mother Rose and thus ignited his passion for Grieg’s lyric pieces, resulting him to arrange a series of theses during 1898. Grainger continued to arrange folk music, presenting a collection of work which is unique in music history. During a visit to Scotland during 1900, Grainger was heavily influenced by his cultural experience and arranged 25 new accompaniments to Augener’s ‘Minstrelsy of England,’ thus had a profound effect on his future musical

The Classical and the 19th century Romantic Period were eras where many of the most famous composers and compositions that we know today were born. The Classical Period brought forth big name composers like Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, CP Bach, and Ludwig van Beethoven. The 19th century Romantic Period was characterized by composers like Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Edvard Grieg. But, what really were these artistic periods? What makes them different from each other? And how did the Classical Period inevitably end and influence the beginning of the Romantic Period? Here we will not only cite in depth research of both the Classical and the 19th Century Romantic Period, but also pull direct characteristics of the classical period from Beethoven’s “Zärtliche

Music has been around for ages and still plays a critical role in everyone’s life. During the Medieval period, many turned to the arts and music to cope with the hardships of that time. The history of music is best told by the styles that emerged and the composers who lived during the Medieval period. One composer, by the name of Hildegard Von Bingen, changed the way people saw music during this time. In this essay, I will analyze "O Virtus Sapientiae” by Hildegard Von Bingen.

Key Achievements: He was responsible for development of modern political and educational thought. He also made many contributions to music as a theorist. He influenced many philosophers and established several different interpretations about humankind nature and the causes of conflicts between human interaction. He won an essay competition which further pushed his ideas and beliefs to the spotlight. He helped jump start what was known as the “romanticism” period and also influenced many other major events such as the French revolution.

mark on the musical world. From Mozart, to Beethoven, to Chopin, to Brahms, each famous

To start from the beginning, Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany to a family of musicians like many musicians of the 18th century (Budden). Even though Beethoven was not a child prodigy, much to the disappointment of his father Johann, he still managed to become one of the greatest and most innovative composers both in history and during his own lifetime. Despite not having a quick start into the music scene, he was born with all the expectations and opportunities to turn out musically inclined. His first major step into becoming the composer he would be known for was gaining the opportunity to be taught by Christian Gottlob Neefe. It would be through this that

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

Edvard Grieg was a composer in the Romantic period. He was born on June 15th 1843 in Bergen, Norway. His mother was his first music teacher, who was a beautiful pianist. In fact, almost everyone in Edvard’s family was a musician, so they were perfectly okay with him wanting to become a musician. When Edvard was in his late teenage years, he traveled to study at the best music conservatory in Europe. After he graduated, he moved to Denmark, where he met and married Nina, a singer. Later they had a child named Alexandria, who died after only 13 months. Grieg performed his music all over Europe, however, every summer he went back to Norway to compose new music for the fall and winter performances. Edvard died on September 4th 1907 in Bergen, Norway,

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

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.

Romanticism came to be in the 18th and 19th centuries which emphasized the imagination and emotions of romanticism. Many people viewed this type of literature as the quality or state of being impractical or unrealistic meaning romantic feelings or ideas. During this time many poets were encouraged to express their true colors and individual uniqueness. The Romantic Era expanded all throughout the world, and reached poets such as Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the greatest musical composers of his time. Starting very young in his studies of music, he held many important positions they would develop him into the composer he became. Born in Bonn, Germany to a singer, he held his first position at the church. He later moved to Vienna where his composed several pieces, and even an opera. He created a new style of music, cyclic form.

With this clever innovation of harmonics, Chopin was highly ranked amongst other composers making him an even greater influence towards the world of piano-playing.