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Topic: Most influentual Norwegian giant Posted: April 12 2011 at 09:51
I think Friede is right, though Grieg probably had some influence on impressionistic music (Debussy denied it but that doesn’t prove anything). I would say that Munch (my personal favourite of the three) was more influential than Grieg, and Ibsen more influential than Munch again.
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Posted: April 02 2011 at 00:19
Very interesting how much Ibsen is underappreciated, but his drama "Et Dukkehjem" ("A Doll's House") alone was more important for the 20th century than the works of the rest together (and I am fully aware of the importance of "The Scream"). I am talking about the immediate impact here; "A Doll's House" was a milestone for the feminist movement. Many people wonder why James Joyce fell for Nora Barnacle, because she was a rather plain woman. But Joyce was fascinated by Ibsen; maybe he even fell for Nora Barnacle because of her name. The name of the leading female character in "A Doll's House" is Nora.
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Posted: April 01 2011 at 19:43
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I have of course seen it (The Scream), but never knew who painted it.
And I do know In the Hall of the Mountain King but, (much to my sadness) I know little of classical music. Only the big pieces by big names.
im no expert myself but I will recomend Griegs Arabian Dances such a fun song, and to think of a norseman, use arabic tonals and modes in early 1900 in a classical piece in such a narural way, like he was born to do the task
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Posted: April 01 2011 at 19:24
I wonder if this section of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" wasn't used in the Smurfs? I remember that this cartoon used some sections of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", but I'm not sure about Grieg.
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Posted: April 01 2011 at 18:34
Amundsen died some years later trying to find an American or British polar expedition that had gone missing which ended up with Amundsen also went gone, his body was never found, (or the ship), and now its imposible to find remains from the faild rescue which coused Amundsen to lose his life..
also trivia the authour Roald Dahl is named after the explorer Roald Amundsen
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Posted: April 01 2011 at 18:25
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I couldn't choose because they are all from differing disciplines and are equally important in their own field.
Norway has produced an impressive list of explorers ... there must be a strong urge to be somewhere else in the Norwegian psyche (he says looking at Torodd ) ... Leif Ericson (discoved Greenland and America), Roald Amundsen (first man to the South Pole), Jens Munk (North-West Passage), Thor Heyerdahl (Kon Tiki and Ra expeditions) ...
It was Leig Ericsons father Erik Raude who discovered Greenland , and I think Amundsen was the captain of the ship who that saild the North-Westpassage,
Ah, you have the home advantage over me. My memory failed me - I thought Leif's dad Eric discovered Iceland and Leif discovered Greenland, obviously wrong, however Leif explored much of Greenland and discovered America. Yes, Amundsen was more successful in the search for the North-west Passage - Munk's three expiditions failed, but he was 400 years before Amundsen and would have probably been more successful if steel ships had been around in the 17th century .
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Posted: April 01 2011 at 16:17
Dean wrote:
I couldn't choose because they are all from differing disciplines and are equally important in their own field.
Norway has produced an impressive list of explorers ... there must be a strong urge to be somewhere else in the Norwegian psyche (he says looking at Torodd ) ... Leif Ericson (discoved Greenland and America), Roald Amundsen (first man to the South Pole), Jens Munk (North-West Passage), Thor Heyerdahl (Kon Tiki and Ra expeditions) ...
It was Leig Ericsons father Erik Raude who discovered Greenland , and I think Amundsen was the captain of the ship who that saild the North-Westpassage,
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I couldn't choose because they are all from differing disciplines and are equally important in their own field.
Norway has produced an impressive list of explorers ... there must be a strong urge to be somewhere else in the Norwegian psyche (he says looking at Torodd ) ... Leif Ericson (discoved Greenland and America), Roald Amundsen (first man to the South Pole), Jens Munk (North-West Passage), Thor Heyerdahl (Kon Tiki and Ra expeditions) ...
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JJLehto wrote:
) ... Leif Ericson (discoved Greenland and America), Roald Amundsen (first man to the South Pole), Jens Munk (North-West Passage), Thor Heyerdahl (Kon Tiki and Ra expeditions) ...
My memory failed me - I thought Leif's dad Eric discovered Iceland and Leif discovered Greenland, obviously wrong, however Leif explored much of Greenland and discovered America. Yes, Amundsen was more successful in the search for the North-west Passage - Munk's three expiditions failed, but he was 400 years before Amundsen and would have probably been more successful if steel ships had been around in the 17th century 