Autograph letter signed from Nina Grieg to Anna Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Nina writes a letter of welcome to the Brodskys. Edvard has been sleepless and breathless, but is better now. They are going to spend a few days in Kristiania and then return over the mountains to their homeland to await the Brodskys. Dated 7 J...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg thanks Brodsky for so much that was good in the year 1906 and hopes that they will meet again in 1907. Grieg has written to Urbanek in Prague to tell him the truth. Urbanek has been blaming the Brodsky Quartet for the delay. Dated 31 Dec ...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg is annoyed that Herr Urbanek in Prague has not given definite dates. Concert agencies in other towns are pressurising him. Grieg sends the score of a newly published orchestral piece about which he has been writing or speaking for years. ...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg enthuses over the Brodskys' visit which was medicine for body and soul. The photographs have arrived from Brodsky and brought the visit to mind. Grieg believes that he ought to have been sending photographs to Brodsky but will try to ...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph picture postcard signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph and Anna Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
The Griegs are waiting very eagerly for news of the Brodskys' arrival. "Es muss sein," but the question is, when? The Griegs are saving the good weather for them and ask if they prefer hard or soft beds; and what ought to be the d...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg has just received his honorary doctorate from Oxford but cannot leave England without a promise that the Brodskys will come to Troldhaugen, preferably in July and if not, then in August. Grieg will not be waiting for the reply since, on the...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg replies to Brodsky's letter in which Brodsky announces that he is not coming to Norway. Grieg tried to telegraph him that Nina was better and to come; the Eldorado would be going from Newcastle to Bergen that evening. However the addr...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph and Anna Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg celebrated his 60th birthday on 15 June 1903. Grieg thanks the Brodskys for the telegram which did not compensate for their absence from his birthday celebrations. It was a week of festivities and worth the journey for Bjornson's spee...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg thanks Brodsky for his letter. A massage cure is detaining Grieg in Kobenhagen. Grieg would like to meet the Brodskys and spend a few days in their company which would be better for him than the good air of Wiesbaden. He is also undergoin...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Autograph letter signed from Edvard Grieg to Adolph and Anna Brodsky
Parte deBrodsky Papers
Grieg is relieved that the Norwegian Music Festival is over and he can breathe again, after more than 6 months’ strain and unbelievable chauvinistic furore in the Norwegian press. The festival has been an outstanding success [3,000 audience in 7 ...
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Composer, Pianist, Conductor