If you've ever seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon, you're familiar with some of the music in "Peer Gynt" from composer Edvard Grieg.

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 ...

The SLSO closes its two-year journey away from Powell Hall this weekend with a fully staged production of Edvard Grieg’s "Peer Gynt." ...

The music came from Edvard’s mother, a talented amateur pianist ... founding father of the new Scandinavian school of composition and Denmark’s leading composer, befriended Grieg, inspiring him to ...

Rose promptly relocated him to Europe. In London in 1906, he met Edvard Grieg at a high-society dinner. The celebrated Norwegian composer was a physical wreck. Plagued with pleurisy, arthritis and ...

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 ...