Amanda Röntgen-Maier
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Amanda Röntgen-Maier was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female to graduate with the title "Musikdirectör" from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1873.
Amanda Röntgen-Maier
Edvard Grieg
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His
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…appearances, but she continued composing. The couple arranged musical salons and music performances in Europe, with audience members including Nina and Edvard Grieg, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. In the late 1870s Maier also met Ethel Smyth, who was studying in Leipzig. They…
Grieg in 1888
Statue of Grieg by Ingebrigt Vik in Bergen
Edvard Grieg (1891), portrait by Eilif Peterssen
Grieg and Nina Hagerup (Grieg's wife and first cousin) in 1899