Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843–1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, born in Bergen. He trained at the Leipzig Conservatory and later studied in Copenhagen, where he came under the influence of Danish and Norwegian nationalist composers. Grieg drew heavily on Norwegian folk melody and rhythm, and his incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (1875), later arranged into two orchestral suites, became some of the most widely recognized concert music of the Romantic era.

Grieg is regarded as the leading Norwegian composer of the Romantic era and did more than any other figure to bring Norwegian folk idiom into the international classical repertoire, alongside contemporaries such as Sibelius in Finland and Smetana in Bohemia. Movements from his Peer Gynt suites, originally written for orchestra, are frequently arranged for other instrumental combinations, including guitar.

Compare recordings piece by piece — 21 works of Edvard Grieg with more than one performance on the site →

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg