{"id":65466,"date":"2019-08-30T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/gothenburg-symphony-orchestra\/edvard-grieg\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:52:50","slug":"edvard-grieg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/discover\/composers\/edvard-grieg\/","title":{"rendered":"Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His production includes a large number of lyrical pieces for piano, songs, orchestral suites, music for plays such as Ibsen&#8217;s Peer Gynt, the often played piano concerto in A minor, the melodrama Bergljot and chamber music. There is a weightlessness and a twist in Grieg\u2019s music that makes it go straight in. Good examples are the hit songs from Peer Gynt: Anitra&#8217;s dance, Morning mood, Solveig&#8217;s song, In the Hall of the Mountain King\u2026 it&#8217;s hard to sit still.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/edvardgrieg-i-sitt-hem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" class=\"size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a successful career, he had to step down for health reasons and when his heart could no longer bear it, he past away. His funeral in 1907 was worthy of a national saint and gathered tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His production includes a large number of lyrical pieces for piano, songs, orchestral suites, music for plays such as Ibsen&#8217;s Peer Gynt, the often played piano concerto in A minor, the melodrama Bergljot and chamber music. There is a weightlessness and a twist in Grieg\u2019s music that makes it go straight in. Good examples are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":65452,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/standard-large-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-14 18:21:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65466"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117811,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65466\/revisions\/117811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}