Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity

by Daniel M. Grimley

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 has performed in Grieg's work. It presents new perspectives on the relationships between music,...

• 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"