Editing Edvard Grieg (section)

==Background==
[[File:Ingebrigt Vik-Edvard Grieg-Bergen.jpg|thumb|Statue of Grieg by [[Ingebrigt Vik]] in Bergen]]
[[File:Eilif Peterssen-Edvard Grieg 1891.jpg|thumb|Edvard Grieg (1891), portrait by [[Eilif Peterssen]]]]
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in [[Bergen]], Norway. His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and the British Vice-Consul in Bergen, and Gesine Judithe Hagerup (1814–1875), a music teacher and daughter of solicitor and politician [[Edvard Hagerup]].<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Edvard Grieg |first=Finn |last=Benestad|author-link=Finn Benestad |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]] |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Edvard_Grieg/utdypning |language=no|access-date=10 September 2011}}</ref>{{sfn|Benestad|Schjelderup-Ebbe|1990|pp=25–28}} The family name, originally spelled [[Greig (name)|Greig]], is associated with the [[Scottish clans|Scottish]] [[Clan Gregor|Clann Ghriogair (Clan Gregor)]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greig.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=28|title=The Origins of the Greig Family Name|website=greig.org|access-date=4 August 2019|archive-date=17 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817164253/http://www.greig.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=28|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the [[Battle of Culloden]] in Scotland in 1746, Grieg's great-grandfather, Alexander Greig (1739–1803),<ref name=grove>Nils Grinde. [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/11757 "Grieg, Edvard"], [[Grove Music Online]], Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, accessed 11 November 2013 {{subscription required}}</ref> travelled widely before settling in Norway about 1770 and establishing business interests in Bergen. Grieg's paternal great-great-grandparents, John (1702–1774) and Anne (1704–1784),<ref>[https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/1753951/edvard-grieg-proudly-carried-fraserburgh-memento-with-him-throughout-his-life/ "Edvard Grieg proudly carried Fraserburgh memento with him throughout his life"] - ''Press and Journal'', 23 May 2019</ref> are buried in the abandoned churchyard of the ruined Church of St Ethernan in [[Rathen, Aberdeenshire]], Scotland.<ref name="McKean137">{{cite book |last1=McKean |first1=Charles |title=Banff & Buchan: An Illustrated Architectural Guide |date=1990 |publisher=Mainstream Publications Ltd. |location= |isbn=185158-231-2 |page=137}}</ref>

Edvard Grieg was raised in a musical family. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play when he was age six. He studied in several schools, including [[Tanks Upper Secondary School]].<ref>Robert Layton. ''Grieg''. (London: Omnibus Press, 1998)</ref>

During the summer of 1858, Grieg met the eminent Norwegian violinist [[Ole Bull]],<ref name="Benestad 1990 pp. 35">{{harvnb|Benestad|Schjelderup-Ebbe|1990|pp=35–36}}</ref> who was a family friend; Bull's brother was married to Grieg's aunt.{{sfn|Benestad|Schjelderup-Ebbe|1990|p=24}} Bull recognized the 15-year-old boy's talent and persuaded his parents to send him to the [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig|Leipzig Conservatory]],<ref name="Benestad 1990 pp. 35"/> the piano department of which was directed by [[Ignaz Moscheles]].<ref>Jerome Roche and Henry Roche. [//www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/19185 "Moscheles, Ignaz"], Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, accessed 30 June 2014 {{subscription required}}</ref>

Grieg enrolled in the [[music school|conservatory]], concentrating on piano, and enjoyed the many concerts and recitals given in [[Leipzig]]. He disliked the discipline of the conservatory course of study. An exception was the [[organ (music)|organ]], which was mandatory for piano students. About his study in the conservatory, he wrote to his biographer, [[Hans Aimar Mow Grønvold|Aimar Grønvold]], in 1881: "I must admit, unlike [[Johan Svendsen|Svendsen]], that I left Leipzig Conservatory just as stupid as I entered it. Naturally, I did learn something there, but my individuality was still a closed book to me."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://greatcomposers.nifc.pl/en/grieg/catalogs/places/282_leipzig-conservatory|title=Edvard Grieg – Leipzig Conservatory|website=The Fryderyk Chopin Institute|access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref>

During the spring of 1860, he survived two life-threatening [[Respiratory disease|lung diseases]], [[pleurisy]] and [[tuberculosis]]. Throughout his life, Grieg's health was impaired by a destroyed left lung and considerable deformity of his thoracic spine. He suffered from numerous respiratory infections, and ultimately developed combined lung and heart failure. Grieg was admitted many times to spas and [[Sanatorium|sanatoria]] both in Norway and abroad. Several of his doctors became his friends.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Laerum | first1 = OD | date = Dec 1993 | title = Edvard Grieg's health and his physicians | journal = Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen | volume = 113 | issue = 30| pages = 3750–3753 | pmid = 8278965 }}</ref>