Grieg's music drew on the Norwegian folk tunes of his homeland. He wrote many songs and piano miniatures. He was a leading composer of the Romantic era and brought the music of Norway to an ...

Grieg’s music is Norway in just the same way that Elgar and Vaughan Williams are England. It is full of the idioms of Norwegian folk music synthesised with the German Romantic tradition. Like Chopin, ...

Boland explains Nordic jazz as a genre that originated in Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. It eschewed the tradition of ...

the Kalamazoo Laptop Orchestra and developer of the Groven Piano, a 36-tone interactive piano network which received its premieres in Oslo, Norway and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. A ...

Norwegian-Americans settling in the United States brought their cultural traditions with them, including a folk art technique called rosemaling. Rosemaling began in the mid-18th century in the ...

Though the pieces are inspired by Norwegian folk music and dances, Diniz explains, “These were 18th Century pieces that were written on the piano before being adapted for a string orchestra.