Grieg the Song Writer: Music's Heinrich Heine From: Musical Opinion | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Foster, Beryl | Copyright Musical Opinion Limited Mar/Apr 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

To compare Grieg's song writing with Heine - the epithet is from Georges Loisseau's review in Le Figaro on 21 April 1894 may seem a strange starting point for a brief appraisal. However, the comparison is not so incongruous. Both Heine and Grieg were capable of making vivid impressions with great simplicity, yet attention to detail. Both lived at an artistic crossroads: for Heine the transition from the Romantic era to the more political outlook of the Jung Deutschland movement; for Grieg, ha...

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