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Grieg, Edvard Hagerup.

Chapter 9. Quotes.

• "Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take"
  Grieg, on his first meeting with Nordraak, 1864
  
• "Full of cow-plats"
  Grieg's own description of the music for 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Peer Gynt Suite No 1.
  
• "What warmth and passion in his melodic phrases, what teeming vitality in his harmony, what originality and beauty in the turn of his piquant and ingenious modulations and rythms ........ add to all this that rarest of qualities, a perfect simplicity."
  Tchaikovsky on hearing Grieg's music.

• "I am sure my music has the taste of codfish in it" said by Edvard Grieg in 1903

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