Ron Drew's Music Pages - Favourite Composers
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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