Program:
13.30-14.15: Ørjan Matre : «Lyriske Stykker» (2019)
«Lyric Pieces» was commissioned and premiered by Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner in 2019. The piece is a composed interpretation based on six of Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, and gave Ørjan Matre a nomination for the Nordic Councel Music Prize 2020
14.15-15.00: Benedict Taylor: ‘Grieg’s Mature Sonata Style: The String Quartet in F Major.’
From his own day to the present, Edvard Grieg has not been respected primarily for his command of large-scale instrumental form. The clichéd view of a ‘miniaturist’ uncomfortable in the canonical classical instrumental genres and forms. In this talk I would like to focus on the final sonata-form movement Grieg completed, the opening movement of the String Quartet (1891). Grieg’s (unfinished) second quartet provides a profitable case study in the application of contemporary music theory to a critically underappreciated repertory.
Dr. Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh, holding fellowships at Heidelberg, Princeton and Berlin, and worked previously at Oxford as Lecturer in Music and SeniorResearch Fellow at Magdalen and New College.
15.00-15.20: Discussion
The Grieg Seminar is coordinated by associated professor Ingrid Catharina Geuens, Grieg Academy, UiB
in cooperation with Grieg studies, bachelor program in musicology at the Grieg Academy UiB,
course leader: Arnulf Mattes, Grieg Research Centre
Supported by the GAFONOM-research group, Grieg Academy.