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ViewsEivind GrovenFrom Young Composers Eivind Groven (October 8, 1901 – February 8, 1977) was a Norwegian composer and fiddler. Like many Norwegian composers of his generation and the generation that preceded him, his music draws influence from Norwegian folk music. However, Groven is the only one of these composers that truly mastered both the Hardanger fiddle and the symphony orchestra. MusicGroven's music is characterized by a utilization of tonal, rhythmical, and formal features of Norwegian folk music. Most notably, he incorporates the metamorphic technique of the Norwegian peasant dances - his musical motives constantly grow out of one another, and are gradually transformed in such a way that the final result is something different from that with which the process began. Groven often combines this process with traditional structural devices such as sonata or rondo form. He created large choral works, a piano concerto, two symphonies, symphonic poems, works for Hardanger fiddle and orchestra as well as shorter instrumental works. Groven often reused and expanded on material from earlier works while composing new works - his concerto for piano, for instance, was at first a large scale piano work, then an orchestral piece, before finally turning into the concerto which we know today. Groven's most popular composition is the overture Hjalarljod, written and premiered at a competition celebrating the 900th anniversary of the city of Oslo in 1950. Selected worksFor the complete list see List of compositions by Eivind Groven
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