1527. EDVARD GRIEG (1843 - 1907) Norwegian composer considered the founder of the Norwegian school of composition, composed music for Peer Gynt and Sigurd Jorsalfar. Very fine content A.L.S. "Edvard Grieg", 4pp. 8vo., Leipzig, Feb. 13, 1894, in German to Mr. Gernsheim, possibly to the German composer Friedrich Gernsheim. In part: "...Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to be in Berlin on the 12th of March. While I am free, I have a concert with the Court Orchestra in Munich on the 9th of March and an orchestra concert on the 17th in Geneva. To take a side trip as far as Berlin between these two concerts would be a bit too much...I am very grateful for your invitation...Should you ever be inclined to put my choral work 'Scenes from Olav Trygvason', an unfinished drama by [Grieg's librettist and poet Bjornstjerne] Bjornson, on the program, I would make every effort to appear in Berlin...". Olav Trygvason was an opera fragment, consisting of three scenes about the Norwegian King. "Olav the Traitor", as he was known, forcibly converted Norway to Christianity around 960 A.D. However, a rift occurred between Grieg and Bjornson, and none of the scenes about the conversion were completed. Olav Trygvason is considered today the most "Wagnerian" of Grieg's works. $1,000 - 1,200