Template:Did you know nominations/Haugtussa (song cycle)

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The result was: promoted by Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:20, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Haugtussa (song cycle)

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• ... that Haugtussa, Opus 67, (pictured) composed for soprano and piano by Edvard Grieg in 1895, is the only song cycle in his entire repertoire?

• ALT1:The first to perform Edvard Grieg's Haugtussa was his friend Agathe Backer Grondahl and singer Eva Nansen, wife of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen?
• Comment: Article created in userspace on 21 August and moved to mainspace on 23 August.

Created by Krenakarore (talk). Self nom at 11:05, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

• Passing comment, not a review. The image is not suitable for the Main Page at 100px. Just doesn't hold up as an interesting image. Cbl62 (talk) 19:51, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

• Date and length fine, hook good and sourced, but simpler ALTs suggested. The pic is problematic, but perhaps a cropped version of the upper left corner would show Grieg's demands on the pianist. Article: it lacks a paragraph on the music which is described as interesting in a source, is very general in places ("and during this time he came to realise how to arrange this work, once he was for a while with the idea of using an orchestra instead of the piano"), I don't understand what or who Haugtussa is ("she" makes it sound like a person, but isn't that Veslemøy?), and I miss a source for the claim that Grieg was at the piano for the performance with Möller. - No apparent copyvio/plagiarism.

ALT2:... that Edvard Grieg composed only one song cycle, Haugtussa for soprano and piano (pictured), his Opus 67 in 1895?

ALT3:... that Edvard Grieg composed only one song cycle, Haugtussa for soprano and piano (pictured)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

• Reading again I found that Veslemøy is the boy, but it might still be clarified that Haugtussa is the name of the girl - if it is. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:04, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

• Reworked, thanks a million.....:) ! Krenakarore ^TK 00:47, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
• Improving, thank you! Please explain "Grieg wanted that Haugtussa to be seen the way that she was conceived by Garborg, but thanks to a few selected poems Grieg was able to give a true and complete new image to Haugtussa, thus creating a new whole." Sorry, I don't get it. Music? One more recording? Please say in the lead that Haugtussa is the heroine. It might a landscape, a town, whatever ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:26, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

• I inserted my assumption that Haugtussa is the girl, but then what is "or The Mountain Maid"? The score says something like 'Af "Haugtussa"', is that the Norwegian title or does it say it's an excerpt? Any help with the pronounciation? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:50, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

• after thorough copy-edit, thank you, Yngvadottir! Music and cropped pic still welcome, but good to go with ALT2 or shorter ALT3, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:17, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

• I've added a cropped version. Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

• Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:42, 31 August 2011 (UTC)