Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Edvard Grieg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to international consciousness, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia.

Norwegian - Composer | June 15, 1843 - September 4, 1907

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Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

Edvard Grieg

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Edvard Grieg

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

Edvard Grieg

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Edvard Grieg

To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.

Edvard Grieg

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Edvard Grieg

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

Edvard Grieg

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

Edvard Grieg

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Edvard Grieg