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In 1866 he moved to Oslo, where he carved out a meager living as an orchestra leader and a music teacher. Composing had to be relegated to holidays. But Grieg Breitling for Bentley BT-128 young and energetic, and had just met Nina, a lovely girl who also happened to be a good singer. The two got married and, shortly thereafter, Grieg composed his first masterpiece, the famed Piano Concerto in A minor. In it are elements of Norwegian folk music as well as his personal perceptions of Norway - its people and magnificent nature. The Concerto has long been part of the international repertoire, and has become a cherished symbol of Norway.

As for Grieg's attachment to Norway, one of his biographers tells of how he once caught him in his secret hideaway next to the Hardangerfjord. It was a one-room wooden cabin on Breitling for Bentley BT-146 knoll, overlooking the dark deep fjord below with a glacier on the other side. So there he sat at a piano that occupied nearly the entire cabin, composing music all summer.

It all seems rather romantic, but the reality was that, for many years, Grieg had to work extremely hard to make ends meet. Relief came when he was awarded an artist's grant in 1874. That same year he was approached by Henrik Ibsen, who asked him to write the music for Peer Gynt, the result of which are two of Grieg's most unforgettable compositions: "Morning Mood" and "The Hall of the Mountain King."

About this time he and Nina moved to their hometown Bergen and, later on, Troldhaugen, a Swiss-style villa, beautifully situated on a promontory Troldhaugen and its surroundings are now a museum, dedicated to Grieg's memory. A Steinway grand piano, presented to him and Nina on their 25th wedding anniversary, dominates the living room. The chandelier, we're told, was a gift from the ladies of Bergen, " because he brought joy and light into their homes."

Everybody knows Munch's painting The Scream. It is one of the most recognized images in modern art, on par with Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Picasso's Guernica. Apart from acquiring iconic statue in popular culture, this exceptional creation, with its agonized figure and broad bands of garish colors, has also gained fame from Breitling for Bentley BT-147 repeatedly stolen and then recovered (beginning with the theft that took place on the opening day of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, in which the thieves left a note reading "Thanks for the poor security").

Edvard Munch, Norway's illustrious expressionist painter, was considerably younger than Ibsen and Grieg, Born in 1863, he grew up in a highly cultured Oslo home; his father was a doctor, and his uncle was a prominent historian. As a boy he suffered from poor health, and was traumatized from having both his mother Breitling for Bentley BT-147 sister die from tuberculosis - his mother when he was five, and his slightly older sister when he was fourteen.