Edvard Griegs øvelser i harmonilære og kontrapunkt

Abstract

This paper presents a closer look at Grieg’s music theory studies from his time as a student at the Leipzig conservatory. The exercises in harmony and counterpoint, together with Grieg’s self-biographical sketch “My first success”, is among the most important primary sources in the research on Grieg’s early years. The source material is central to still ongoing debates regarding Grieg’s student years, but a detailed study presenting the structure and contents of it has, until now, been missing in the literature. The data presented and discussed in this paper, including a complete counting and categorization of the exercises in Grieg’s workbooks, is based on results from a recently finished master’s thesis on Grieg’s theory studies.