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He married his cousin named Nina Hagerup, she was also a vocalist, and they got married in 1875. He was born on June 15 1843. He died on September 4 1907 He died in Bergen Norway because of heart failure. He was cremated. He was known as Norway's greatest composer His father's name was Alexander Grieg he died in 1875 and his mom was Gesine Hagerup and she was a musician, she also died in 1875. His brother was John Grieg, he was born in 1840, and his sister's were Maren Grieg, she was born in 1837, Elisabeth Grieg, she was born in 1845, and Ingeborg Benedict, and she was born in 1838. He had a daughter named Alexandra Grieg, and she was born in 1868, an died in 1869. His mother belong to a pure Norwegian peasant family. Edvard Grieg got his musicial talent from his mother. She was a pianist and began to teacher her son on the pianoforte, when he was six years old. HIs first composition was "Variations on a German melody", which he wrote when he was nine. He had already been decorated with the Olaf order in 1873. In 1888 he played his pianoforte concerto and conducted his "two melodies for strings" at a Philharmonic concert in London, and visited England again in 1891, 1894 and 1896, receiving the degree of Mus.D. from the university of Cambridge in 1894. One summer that he spent with his father, in 1858, gave him a powerful influence for his musicial imagination. In fall, of that same year, at the recommendation of Ole Bull (Mother's brother-in-law, and violinst), Grieg entered the Leipzig Conservatory, where he passed, at the Mendelssohn and Schumann school of Romantics. In 1862 he completed his Leipzig studies, and appeared as pianist and composer before his fellow citizens of Bergen. In 1863 he studied in Copenhagen for a short time with Gade and Emil Hartmann, both composers representing a sentimental strain of Scandinavian temperament, from which Grieg emancipated himself in favor of the harder inspiration of Richard Nordraak.