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Edvard Grieg Printable Book for Children Printing Instructions when printing from Adobe Acrobat Reader. Filename.pdf Click on File Then select Print The print dialogue box will appear. NAME OF PRINTER Under Print Range Check the Pages button and type in 2-6, 2-6 Click on the OK button. Return the printed pages to the paper tray (refer to your printer specifications to insert paper face up or face down when printing double-sided). Repeat the steps above EXCEPT this time you will print pages 7-11 AND you must check the box to Reverse pages. Your pages should come out of the printer ready to be folded in half and secured with three staples on the left margin. All printers are different and this is a general guideline. You may need to experiment to desired end result. EDVARD GRIEG The Story of the Boy Who Made Music in the Land of the Midnight Sun This book was made by ____________________ GRIEG IN LATER LIFE More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com 8. What famous song did Grieg dedicate to Mina Hagerup? ____________________________________________ 9. Tell about Grieg's visit to Liszt in Rome. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ EDVARD GRIEG 10. Name as many of Grieg’s compositions as you can. How many have you heard? ____________________________________________ The Story of the Boy Who ____________________________________________ Made Music in the Land ____________________________________________ of the Midnight Sun 11. Tell what you know about Grieg's personal appearance and disposition. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 12. When did Grieg die? How old was he? ____________________________________________ 13. Who was Jenny Lind? __________________________________ 16 i More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com Edvard Grieg was born June 15th, 1843, ___________________________________________ near Bergen, Norway. This is the picture of a ___________________________________________ boy who was born in the north of the world. He loved his mother country and the music which ____________________________________________ the people sang. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ GRIEG AS A BOY ___________________________________________ ____________________________________________ But he had music, all his own, that sang and sang in his heart. It was happy music and sad; ____________________________________________ solemn and joyous. ___________________________________________ Even when this little boy was in the primary school the music knocked at his heart's ___________________________________________ door as if it would say: ____________________________________________ "Let me out into the world so that people may hear me." ____________________________________________ When he was twelve years old he started out one morning as usual, but instead of taking 14 3 More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com not only the music that kept singing in him, but Read these facts about Edvard Grieg. Then, using your he loved Norway and all its people. own words, write a story about him on pages 13 and But all the grown up folks of Edvard's 14. world did not call his music rubbish. His mother loved music and played beautifully. It was from 1. Grieg was born June 15th, 1843, near Bergen, her that Edvard had his first lessons. Norway. 2. His father's ancestors were Scotch and went to Then one day something wonderful Norway after the Battle of Culloden, in 1745. happened. A great violinist named Ole Bull 3. It was Grieg's mother who gave him his first lessons. visited the Grieg family in the country. He was 4. One of his best friends—and one who did much for so kind to the little composer that the boy just him—was Ole Bull, the great violinist. loved him. 5. Grieg studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. 6. His teachers were Moscheles, Hauptmann (who liked his music), Richter, and Papperitz. 7. Among Grieg's friends were Gade, Nordraak, Ibsen, Bjornson, and Svendsen. 8. He married Mina Hagerup, who was a fine singer. 9. Grieg composed for the piano, voice, violin, and for the orchestra. 10. Grieg wrote music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, at the poet's request. 11. The Norwegian Government granted Grieg a pension so that he could be free to devote himself to composition. 12. He died September 3rd, 1907. OLE BULL 12 5 More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com When Grieg bade good-bye to Liszt the It was all strange and new. Instead of hills famous pianist said to him: and the waters of the fjords, there were tall, dark "Keep on, you have talent and ability. Do houses, gloomy streets, and such a lot of not let anyone discourage or frighten you." hurrying people. So sensitive was Grieg about music But he soon grew used to it all and was writing that he never allowed any one to watch busy as could be with lessons in piano and him. So he had a little house built in the harmony. Just as in the earlier days in school, so mountains where he could work at his leisure. in Leipzig, Edvard wrote music as it sounded in This he called his "tune house." There was his heart. In the harmony lessons he could not only one room in the house. In it was his piano make himself write plain chords to the bass and often when he was playing, the Norwegian which was given him as an exercise. He wrote peasants used to group themselves outside the the light, airy, lovely, fanciful tunes and door, sometimes joining in the singing, and rhythms that were singing within him. And just then again dancing to their delightful folk like the schoolmaster at home, the harmony tunes and dances. teacher shouted at him, saying: As a boy in Leipzig he worked so hard he "No, that is all wrong!" became ill and it was necessary for him to But you remember that Ole Bull understood return home. From this illness he never fully the boy's music. While here in Leipzig there recovered. All his life he was frail and unable were many who understood it too. to endure severe tasks. Bit by bit Edvard made friends who loved In appearance Grieg was short and his to listen to his pieces. One of them was Niels hands were thin, but fine and strong for the Gade, a fine musician in Denmark, who was a piano, although one of them had been crushed friend of Schumann's, who one time, wrote a in an accident. His eyes were deep blue and 10 7 More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co. 1712 Chestnut Str. COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THEODORE PRESSER CO. British Copyright Secured Printed in U. S. A. This electronic version has been adapted and compiled into the present format by www.tlsbooks.com. More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com Grieg Quiz 1. When and where was Grieg born? _____________________________________________ 2. Name some famous men of his country. _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ 3. Who was his first teacher? _____________________________________________ 4. Through whose advice did he go to the Conservatory at Leipzig? _____________________________________________ 5. What Danish composer gave Grieg good advice about EDVARD GRIEG his compositions? _____________________________________________ Born 6. Who were some of Grieg's teachers? _______________________ _____________________________________________ Died 7. What composition by Grieg was given first prize in ________________________ the contest in Sweden? _____________________________________________ ii 15 More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com his school books he took with him his music- THE STORY OF writing book which contained what he termed "Variation on a German Melody Op. 1." EDVARD GRIEG Written by____________________ ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ FROM THE NORWEGIAN BRIDAL PROCESSION _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ His schoolmates were very proud to see the music of their companion Edvard. But _____________________________________________ alas! While they were looking at it and talking _____________________________________________ about it, whom do you think came creeping up behind them? _____________________________________________ Why, the schoolmaster, to be sure. _____________________________________________ He gave little Edvard a rough shaking up and told him how severely he would be _____________________________________________ punished if ever again he brought such _____________________________________________ nonsense to school. Poor old schoolmaster! He did not know _____________________________________________ what Edvard Grieg would one day mean to the _____________________________________________ land and people of Norway. For Edvard loved 4 13 More books like this at www.tlsbooks.com Ole Bull had traveled the world over and were full of life and kindness. playing the violin. He looked over Edvard's Grieg was usually happy and full of fun. compositions and made the boy play them to But sometimes, he was sad and melancholy like him. You can see him nodding his head in his own music. pleasure as he listens. His fine eyes are lighted Some day you will learn the names of many up. He tells the boy composer that his music is of his compositions. Among them, The Birds, In quite good, but that there is a lot for him to Spring Time, Arietta, the Peer Gynt Music,
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