When asked to write music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, Grieg thought he was facing an impossible challenge. But, as Terry ...

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 ...

January 12, 2018 • Watch the young Russian musician, who The Times of London calls "the most astounding pianist of our age," play a smart, Chopin-focused concert on a grand piano, precisely wedged ...

A collapsed left lung when he was 16 took its toll on Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), and the majority of his pieces are short forms in which Grieg tried, as he put it, "to build dwellings for men in which ...