Troldhaugen
Composer's lakeside villa and hut with his Steinway grand, concert hall and cliffside tomb.
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This guide to Troldhaugen, Edvard Grieg's lakeside villa outside Bergen, starts at the Steinway grand in the living room and reaches back to eighteen sixty-four, when a composer and his first cousin, the soprano Nina Hagerup, decided to marry against both their families' wishes. It touches their Copenhagen wedding, the daughter they lost, and the architect cousin who designed the house. Best heard standing beside the piano, with the lake visible through the windows.
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