Onstage with Grieg: Interpreting His Piano Music

by Einar Steen-Nokleberg

Overview

". . . superior, providing unique insights into the performances of Grieg's piano compositions." —Notes

Reading Onstage with Grieg is almost like taking a private lesson with Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, internationally acclaimed pianist and premier interpreter of Grieg. He offers not only practical advice on the technical execution of these pieces, but helpful insights into their compositional background.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253332486
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	06/22/1997
Pages:	424
Sales rank:	895,892
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

EINAR STEEN-NØKLEBERG, Professor of Piano at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo, has won several prestigious prizes for his performance of Grieg's music. He is editor of the new Henle edition of the complete piano works and has recorded them all on the Naxos label. WILLIAM H. HALVERSON is editor of Edvard Grieg Today and translator of Edvard Grieg: The Man and the Artist by Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, and A History of Norwegian Music by Nils Grinde. He has also translated 130 song texts in the C. F. Peters edition of Grieg's Complete Works.

Editorial Reviews

Grieg (1843-1907) earned his laurels to a large extent on the basis of his compositions for the piano. For performers seeking to master the moody reflections of his home landscape of fjords, forests, and the trolls who inhabit them and many of his pieces, countryman Steen- Nokleberg (Norwegian State Academy of Music, Oslo) offers interpretive and technical advice on the execution of individual pieces as well as the opus cycles. Title index only, from "Ack Varmland du skona" (Swedish folk songs) to "The Wooer's Song" (op. 17, no. 10). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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