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Grieg

American  
[greeg, grig] / grig, grɪg /

noun

  1. Edvard 1843–1907, Norwegian composer.


Grieg British  
/ ɡriːɡ /

noun

  1. Edvard ( Hagerup ) (ˈɛdvard). 1843–1907, Norwegian composer. His works, often inspired by Norwegian folk music, include the incidental music for Peer Gynt (1876), a piano concerto, and many songs

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He thought of the program he had planned back in December: the Taras Bulba Overture by Mykola Lysenko, a concerto by Edvard Grieg and César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor.

From Los Angeles Times

Bob Grieg runs a not-for-profit website supporting dads going through separation, called "OnlyDads".

From BBC

So, in July, activists contacted Grieg Green, a Norwegian company that had put together the ship’s inventory of hazardous materials, known as an I.H.M.

From New York Times

When Andsnes has appeared at the hall, it’s been in Brahms’s Piano Quartets, the Grieg concerto with the Boston Symphony and a “Rite of Spring” as a duo with Marc-André Hamelin.

From New York Times

Based on that, you could consider her reach extending to Grieg’s and Rachmaninoff’s first concertos, which echo Robert Schumann’s.

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