Bradley Ellingboe of "Choral Music for Sundays and Seasons" (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2004) a compendium of sacred choral music. He is also well known as an expert on the vocal music of Scandinavia, and particularly the songs of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843–1907). His editions of Grieg's songs: "45 Songs of Edvard Grieg" (1988) and "A Grieg Song Anthology" (1990) are both published by Leyerle Publications. For his work on making the music of Norway better known among English-speaking singers, Ellingboe was awarded "Sankt Olavs Medaljen" by His Majesty, King Harald of Norway, in 1994. He has curated the choral series Music
Edvard Grieg indicated the tempo mapping for many of his pieces. In 1899, Grieg cancelled his concerts in France in protest of the Dreyfus Affair, an anti-semitic scandal that was then roiling French politics. Regarding this scandal, Grieg had written that he hoped that the French might, "Soon return to the spirit of 1789, when the French republic declared that it would defend basic human rights." As a result of his position on the affair, he became the target of much French hate mail of that day. In 1906, he met the composer and pianist Percy Grainger in London. Grainger was a