As a young man

Grieg was sent to a music school in what is now Oslo Norway to a school called Leipzings Conservatory to study folk style music. He all ways made his teachers proud when he was there.

He suffered a sickness called
Numerous respiratory infections which destroy your lungs over a long period of time. This is what would end up killing him as an old man.

On June 11, 1867 he ended up marring his first cousin Nina Hagerup. There only child Alexandria died when she was two because of the same lung problem that geirg

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