GRIEG (EDVARD)
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GRIEG (EDVARD)
Autograph letter signed ("Edvard Grieg"), in Danish, rhapsodising over beauty of Hardanger where he is tempted to settle for a year or so, as he has in the past, so that he can get peace for working and commune with the self ("...Now order some nice weather for us..."); he also discusses arrangements for meeting, 3 pages, tipped onto an album leaf, 8vo, Lofthus, 8 August 1904
Sold for £480 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • It was at Lofthus that Grieg wrote many of his greatest pieces, such as Peer Gynt and the Holberg Suite. Included in the lot is a letter in English by his widow Nina.

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