Joachim Grieg Joachim Grieg Joachim Grieg (19 December 1849 – 7 December 1932) was a Norwegian ship broker and politician. Grieg was the founder of Joachim Grieg & Co. (now Grieg Group) one of Norway's largest ship brokerage. He was also politically and civically active both nationally and locally. Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of John Grieg (1819-1887) and Jutta Camilla Lous (1825-1901). Grieg was eldest siblings of eleven. He attended Bergen Cathedral School and in 1865 went to sea for 13 years, In 1868, he passed the officer's exam and in 1870 the navigation exam and
Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer) Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer) Edvard Hagerup Bull (10 June 1922 – 15 March 2012) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Bergen. He grew up in Jar outside Oslo in a musical and politically active family, the son of Sverre Hagerup Bull and his wife Aldis Jebsen. His paternal grandfather was politician and judge Edvard Hagerup Bull. In September 1955 he married Anna Kvarme. Bull studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the 1952 . He was awarded the musical composition prize from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de