格里格是挪威最受人爱戴、最具影响力的作曲家。德彪西称他的音乐为“一颗犹似充满雪花的粉红色的夹心糖”,虽然这种说法出于讥笑,但却是一种无可否认的事实。格里格本质上是一位抒情的微图画家,他把富于浪漫色彩的甜蜜和一种被称之为北欧人的特性融合到一起。他决非第一位斯堪的纳维亚民族主义作曲家(尽管有时人们常常这样称呼他),但他确实是第一位赢得广大欧洲听众的挪威作曲家。他的钢琴小品演奏时所需要的那种技巧上的质朴无华使他的半音阶的和声特色广为流传。他也爱在他的作品中使用空心五度和导音,这些都反映了挪威民族风格。 Grieg is Norway’s most loved and most influential composer. Debussy called his music “a pink candy full of snowflakes,” which, although ridiculed, is an undeniable truth. Grieg is essentially a lyrical micro-pictorial artist who combines the romance of sweetness with a feature called the Nordic. He is by no means the first Scandinavian nationalist composer (though sometimes he is often referred to as him), but he is indeed the first Norwegian composer to win a large European audience. The simplicity of the tricks he needed to play his piano pieces made his chromatic harmony more widespread. He also loves the use of hollow fifths and dictation in his works, all of which reflect the Norwegian national style.