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Grieg

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who devoted his career to championing Norwegian folk music and national culture. In 1870 he visited Liszt in Weimar, bringing the manuscript of his recently completed Piano Concerto; Liszt took the score, sat at the piano, and sight-read it from beginning to end, playing it, in Grieg's own account, with complete mastery. The encouragement Liszt gave him that day, he later said, sustained him for years. His Holberg Suite, written in 1884 to mark the bicentenary of the playwright Ludvig Holberg and arranged for string orchestra, has become one of the most performed works in the string repertoire.

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