Classical Music for String Orchestra

To celebrate the 200th birthday of playwright Ludvig Holberg, a statue was erected in his honor in 1884. Edvard Grieg, who like Holberg was born in Bergen, was commissioned to write an open-air cantata for

The discovery of a lost source provides new insights into the genesis of this work and the composer's intended final form of this lyrical little piece for string orchestra. The musical material of what