Sigurd Jorsalfar (Grieg) Sigurd Jorsalfar (Grieg) Sigurd Jorsalfar is a work of incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway. The incidental music, published as Op. 22, was first performed in Christiania on 10 April 1872. An orchestral suite compiled by Grieg from the main work and published as Op. 56 was premiered in Oslo on 5 November 1892 and revised by the composer the same year. The full work consists of nine parts; five are purely orchestral, and four are scored for tenor or baritone, male chorus, and orchestra. Three of the
Stein Grieg Halvorsen Stein Grieg Halvorsen Halvor Bernt Stein Grieg Halvorsen (19 October 1909 – 11 November 2013) was a Norwegian theatre actor. He was born in Kristiania, the son of composer Johan Halvorsen (1864–1935) and Annie Grieg (1873–1957). He was married to Elizabeth Inga Else Margrethe Thaulow (1903–1968) from 1940, then after her death to Vibeke Laura Mowinckel Falk from 1971. Stein Grieg Halvorsen was employed at Nationaltheatret from 1928 to 1935, Den Nationale Scene from 1935 to 1936, and again Nationaltheatret from 1936 to 1939 and from 1945 to his retirement in 1997. His son, Stein Johan Grieg Halvorsen, is half