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Griegsamlingen i Norsk dokumentarv

From Golden Age to Bergen Wave

The Centre for Grieg Research does research on Edvard Grieg's works, his historical importance and cultural relevance in the past and the present. The centre's goal is further to contribute to international research on the diverse traditions in Norwegian music after Grieg and the close exchanges between regional music and international trends in the Nordic regions. 

Grieg in Performance - Vidcast

Forgotten sounds - a historical performance project

What would happen if you give Grieg's violin sonatas to specialists in the field, and let them rehearse the work on an instrument from his time with original gut strings? And what will Grieg's original piano contribute to our understanding of his music? Christina Kobb (piano) and Anton Steck (violin...

Conference
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Nov 17

IGS International Grieg Conference 2023

The International Edvard Grieg Society, the Grieg Research Centre at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Design University of Bergen, and Kode Art Museums and Composer Homes invite to the International Edvard Grieg Conference 2023 - 'Current Musical Heritage' - 17 – 19 November in Bergen.

New publication
Music Nordic Breakthrough cover

Music's Nordic Breakthrough - New Anthology

The first scientific publication about modern music's breakthrough in the North has been published by Boydell and Brewer. Editors are Daniel M. Grimley and Philip Ross Bullock, with a contribution by Arnulf Mattes about the Norwegian modernist Fartein Valen. Grimley is professor at Oxford University...

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On Grieg in 1943 in The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation

Arnulf Mattes and Michael Custodis contributed with a chapter about Grieg's music in occupied Norway in The Routledge Handbook to Music in Occupied Countries, editet by Erik Levi and David Fannings and published right now. This 'pioneering collection of essays is the first in the English language to...

Visiting address:
Senter for Griegforskning, UiB v/KODE, Lars Hilles gate 20A, 5008 Bergen