         The death of Aase, a composition of Edvard Hagerup Grieg.
   1843 - 1907    Grieg was taught the piano by his mother and
enteres the Leipzig Conservatoire when he was fifteen.    He
studied piano with Moscheles and in 1862 he returned to Bergen
as a pianist.     In his programmes he included some of the work
written while he met Gade, Nordraak and also Hans Christian Anderson.
   He returned to Norway in 1866 where he organised the Norwegian
Academy of Music.             After his studies of Norwegian
folk music he was asked by Ibsen to write the music for his "Peer
Gynt" in 1874.    Grieg spent the next two years totally immersed
in composition.    For the next twenty years Grieg wrote and
performed many piano pieces, songs and chamber music.    He made
a tour of Europe in 1884 and many successful visits to England,
where he was especially popular.                     