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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. 

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Drawing [Edvard Grieg og Wilma Neruda-Hallé : Konsert i København, 1900 01.09]
Sep 02

Grieg in Performance - International Research Seminar 2022

The International Edvard Grieg Society, the Grieg Research Centre at the University of Bergen, and Grieg Museum Troldhaugen invite to an international research seminar on Grieg in light of historical performance traditions and their relevance for present day interpretive practices. The seminar will...

Concert and seminar
Concert Remembering Lost Music St Markus church, Bergen
May 02

Remembering Lost Music- Jewish cultural heritage in Scandinavia

2 – 4 May the Grieg Research Centre together with the composition class of the Grieg Academy arranged a concert and seminar led by Dániel Péter Biró will present results of our project on Lost Jewish musical heritage in Bergen, Norway, Scandinavia. The project is supported by strategic project...

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...

New publication
Routledge

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
Grieg Academy, UiB

Collections at Bergen Public Library
Edvard Grieg Archive
Ole Bull Archive
Harald Sæverud Depository
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra: Concert programs and protocols
Composers' homes and museums
Edvard Grieg - Troldhaugen
Harald Sæverud - Siljustøl
Ole Bull - Lysøen
Other Vest Norwegian composers
Geirr Tveitt
Fartein Valen