What was Grieg's central idea about music?
My deepest conviction, my guiding star, is that music must spring from the soil, from the heart of a nation. A composer must not merely imitate; they must *feel*. My music is born of the folk melodies I absorbed from my earliest days, the songs and dances of the Norwegian countryside. This is not about mere reproduction, but about distillation, about finding the essential spirit. It is like the murmur of a mountain stream; it has its own unique voice, its own truth. To capture that truth, to give it voice, that is the essence of my endeavor. It is a melody born of the fjords.
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