Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak

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title: Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak
text: Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23. Grieg deeply respected his fellow musician and took no delay in producing the work. The march was originally written as a piano piece in A minor; Grieg also produced transcriptions of it for brass choir and wind band, in B♭ minor. Grieg valued the work greatly, bringing it along on all of his trav
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description: Piece by Edvard Grieg written in commemoration of a fellow composer
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