Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen
Troldhaugen is the name of the house of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg , which is located in Hop in the Fana district in the south of his hometown Bergen on the banks of the Nordåsvannet . He lived there from 1885 until his death in 1907. His remains and those of his wife Nina lie inside a mountain grave near the house. The house and its surroundings have been the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen since 1928 .
Grieg called the building mitt best opus hittil ("my best work so far"), although it was designed by his cousin, the architect Schak August Steenberg Bull . The name is made up of the Norwegian trold " troll " and haug "hill" (and the article -en ). Grieg gave the house this name based on the name Trolddalen "the valley of the trolls", with which the locals referred to a nearby valley.
A chamber music hall called Troldsalen was built in 1985 above Grieg's composer's hut, which is located in this valley - close to the water .
The museum also has a museum building from 1995.
Grieg immortalized the name of his house in one of his lyrical piano pieces entitled Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen ("Wedding Day on Troldhaugen"; Opus 65, No. 6).
literature
- PJ Nordhagen: Bergen. Guide & Handbook . Bergensiana-forlaget, Bergen 1992, ISBN 82-91104-01-8 .
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Coordinates: 60 ° 19 ′ 10.6 ″ N , 5 ° 19 ′ 46.1 ″ E