Agathe Backer Grøndahl studied piano and composition at Theodor Kullak's Academy in Berlin and later took lessons from Hans von Bülow and Franz Liszt.
Critical Reception
The British Nobel Prize-winning playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw hailed Agathe Backer Grøndahl as one of the 19th century's greatest pianists.
Composer Biography
Agathe Backer Grøndahl suffered significant hearing loss, remaining almost completely deaf in her right ear for the rest of her life, and eventually had to teach with an ear trumpet.
Recording & Production
This album features the world premiere recording of Agathe Backer Grøndahl's Huldreslaat ('Dance of the Huldra') in its original solo piano version.
Composer Biography
Despite societal conventions, Agathe Backer Grøndahl built a career as a freelance pianist and composer, even declining a piano professorship at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, USA.
Composer Biography
Agathe Backer Grøndahl, born in Norway in 1847, came from a wealthy, culturally interested merchant family that included her sister Harriet, who became a prominent painter.
Compositional Technique
Agathe Backer Grøndahl's fairy-tale suite I blaafjellet (In the Blue Mountains) is considered by some to be Norway's first impressionist piece.
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