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sai-national.org • SUMMER 2018 • PAN PIPES 21 Troldhaugen Museum, is in Bergen, Norway. In the former dining room for workers at C.F. Peters, Grieg performed new works for his publishers. is restored 60-seat music salon with the original electric lights is a venue for concerts today. Outside the building since 2009 is a bust sculpture of the composer donated by Herbert Blomstedt, a renowned and revered maestro. Not to be missed — even with limited time as I had — is the Museum of Musical Instruments only a few blocks away. Opened in 1929, the museum experienced catastrophic damage to its collection, archives, and library during World War II. Since that time, the collection has again increased to more than 5,000 instruments — the second largest collection in Europe. e signage is all in German. However, in each of the exhibit rooms, arranged chronologically, it is possible to purchase inexpensive leaflets about the instruments there. One instrument of special interest to keyboard players is the oldest surviving grand piano from 1726. In the gi shop, I purchased an English guidebook with explanations and handsome color photographs of about fiy instruments in the collection. Whenever I open the small volume to read it, I feel as if I am returning to the museum for a more leisurely visit. Jayne I. Hanlin is an initiate of Alpha Omicron and current member of the St. Louis Alumnae chapter. Mrs. Hanlin, the sister of famed pianist Malcolm Frager, is the co- author of Learning Latin Through Mythology (Cambridge University Press, 1991). A WORLD OF MUSIC Leipzig Music Trail By Jayne I. Hanlin T he Leipzig Music Trail has 23 stations. Late on a Friday aernoon, I managed to squeeze in two more of them than I had scheduled: the Grieg Memorial Center and the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Grassi Museum. Opened in 2005, the Grieg Memorial Center (Talstraße 10) is normally only open seven hours a week, on Friday (2 PM - 5 PM) and Saturday (10 AM-2 PM). Norwegian composer and pianistt Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) lived in this building mainly in the winter, sometimes for periods as long as six months, perhaps in order to escape the frigid winters in his country. He wrote his Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 here in 1888. Grieg was the guest of Max Abraham and later his nephew Henri Hinrichsen, the heads of C.F. Peters, a prospering music publishing company with the exclusive rights to publish the composer's music. Sadly, the Nazis deported Hinrichsen and took over the verlag (publishing company). Later Communists in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) followed suit. Since 2014, the headquarters of the Edition Peters Group is in Leipzig. e limited exhibit about Grieg's life and accomplishments at this small museum includes posters on a variety of topics, such as Years of Study in Leipzig, Nina Grieg (his wife), and Folk Music, albeit only in German. Of course, photographs and some items need no translation. e extensive Edvard Grieg Museum, the FOR MORE INFORMATION visit mfm.uni-leipzig.de/en One display at the Museum of Musical Instruments. At right, Grieg's bust near the Grieg Memorial Center.

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