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
Piano Concerto (Grieg) Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York. He died backstage shortly afterwards. It was to have been Barere's first performance of the work. In 1882 and 1883, Grieg worked on a second piano concerto in B minor, but it was never completed. The sketches for the concerto have been recorded by pianist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. In 1997, the Oslo Grieg Society held its Third International Competition for Composers on the theme: "re-imagine" Grieg's second concerto. One of the contestants, the Belgian composer Laurent Beeckmans, elaborated a full piano concerto from the sketches, which was first performed in London on 3 May