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Geirr Tveitt
12+ albums
Classicalnorwegian20th Century Classicalmodern classicalfolk influenced
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Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Tveitt was born in Bergen, Norway, on 19th October 1908, but was brought up in the family home by the Hardanger fjord in western Norway; he remained conscious of his cultural heritage all his life. He was christened Nils, but as a young adult he took the old Norwegian name Geirr, which means "spear". He spent his childhood years both at Lofthus in Hardanger and in Drammen, but each summer returned to the ancestral farm at Kvam, where he experienced the rich folk-music traditions of the area from an early age. He had musical training both in piano and violin, but it was not until his adolescence that he decided to become a composer, after having been encouraged by Norway's most significant composer at the time, Christian Sinding. In 1928 he went to Leipzig to study composition (H. Grabner and L. Wenninger) and piano (O. Weinreich). After only two years of study, his Two-Part Inventions were published, and shortly afterwards his first piano concerto was performed by the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. He left Leipzig after four years. In 1932, 1933, and 1935 he studied for periods of time in Paris where he was taught composition and orchestration by Honegger and Villa-Lobos, among others. In Vienna, he received musical training under the guidance of Egon Wellesz. He then settled in Oslo, where - until the outbreak of the Second World War - he experienced a prosperous period as a composer. The performance of the balle
top songs
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Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 130, "Aurora Borealis": III. Fading Away in the Bright Night of Spring
3,092250 Folk-Tunes from Hardanger, Op. 150: Mountain Call
2,7893Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 130, "Aurora Borealis": II. Sparkle In The Winter Sky And
8614Vél komne Med Aera
6355Velkomne med æra
4566Friarføter
4277Tveitt: 50 Folk-Tunes from Hardanger, Op. 150: No. 37, The Long, Long Winter Night
3678Vi skal ikke sova bort sumarnatta: Vi skal ikkje sova bort sumarnatta
3049100 Folk-tunes from Hardanger, Op. 151: Suite No. 1: No. 1: Velkomne med aera (Welcome with Honour)
27210100 Folk-tunes from Hardanger, Op. 151: Suite No. 1: I. Velkomne med aera (Welcome with Honour)
262albums
TVEITT: Piano Concerto No. 4 / Variations on a Folk Song
TVEITT: Piano Music, Vol. 1
Tveitt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4
Tveitt: Fifty Folk Tunes from Hardanger
Tveitt: 100 Hardanger Tunes - Suites Nos. 1 And 4
TVEITT: Piano Music, Vol. 1
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Tveitt: Fifty Folk Tunes From Hardanger [2 Cd]
Tveitt: 100 Folk-Tunes From Hardanger, Op. 151, Suite Nos. 1 & 2
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Piano Concerto No. 4 / Variations on a Folk Song
Tveitt: Hardanger Fiddle Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Nykken
Norwegian Rhapsody - Orchestral Favourites
Edvard Grieg: Ballade / Geirr Tveitt: Hundrad Hardingtonar