GRIEG EDVARD: (1843-1907) Lot n° 938

GRIEG EDVARD: (1843-1907) Norwegian composer and pianist. A very fine AM.Q.S., Edvard Grieg, one page, oblong 12mo, 7 x 4, n.p., dated 31st May 1892 in his hand. Gried has cleanly penned a four bars of music, which he entitles to the heading ` Strygekvartet op.27´, which corresponds to his string Quartet nº 1, in G minor (1877-78). Grieg also adds the musical tempo above the quotation ` Presto´. Very small ninor remnants of former afficxing to the verso, otherwsie, VG The String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27, is the second of three string quartets written by the composer. The first, in D minor, was an early work, now lost, written in the early 1860s at the request of his teacher, Carl Reinecke, while the third quartet, in F major, remained incomplete at the composer's death.