When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...

Grieg is a one-work composer, mostly: there's one symphony, one piano concerto and single piano sonata. There are three violin sonatas, though, pieces which he thought numbered among his best and ...

Swiss composers? There's Honegger, and Frank Martin… add to that list one Caspar Diethelm (1926-1997), a prolific musical polymath and teacher who also dabbled in politics, botany and mineralogy.

The last few days of unabated San Diego sunshine have me feeling particularly spring-ish even though we are technically in the dead of winter with spring still a month or so away. However, it did get ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Although most Norwegians celebrate Norway’s most famous composer ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Recordings of Brahms, Haydn, Grieg, Nikolai Kapustin and George Walker are among recent highlights. Frank Dupree, piano; Jakob Krupp, bass; Obi Jenne, ...

Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Movements: No. 6, Norwegian (Norsk) Edvard Grieg, Composer Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Movements: No. 5, Folksong (Folkevise) Christopher Glynn, Piano ...