Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity

by Daniel M. Grimley

An examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg.

While Grieg's music continues to enjoy a prominent place in the concert hall and recording catalogues, it has yet to attract sustained analytical attention in Anglo-American scholarship. Daniel Grimley examines the role which music and landscape played in the formation of Norwegian cultural identity in the nineteenth century, and the function that landscape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843832100
• ISBN13: 9781843832102
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"