Music Of The Great Composers --

Edvard Grieg-Part 4 At the age of twelve or thirteen he commenced to compose, much to the disgust of his teachers who regarded such youthful indiscretions as rubbish. Grieg had a distaste for everything that savored of the didactic or academic. Accordingly his school days were made very miserable to him by his materialistic teachers. His first ambition, however, was to be a preacher, and he loved to declaim imaginary sermons to members of his fami..