Edvard Grieg's House Museum is not just a "house" and not just a "museum". Trollhaugen is a complex in a small area, which includes several objects. The most beautiful of all is Trollhausen, of course, in the summer. The garden is blooming and green, and in the concert hall - an excellent program.

Even if you are not much interested in the greatest Norwegian composer or not at all a big fan of classical music, you should still go there. There is a charming nature, amazingly peaceful and clean. The body enjoys fresh and transparent air, and the soul just rests.

Arriving in Trollhausen, you first find yourself at the museum building, where the personal belongings of the composer, many photographs and manuscripts of the scores are collected. In a separate room, the movie is played. There is also a cafe where you can have a snack with a view of the lake.

After passing through the territory further, visitors come, in fact, to the composer's house. It is full of charm, like any museum-stuffed country estate, and exactly the same as a dacha of a local contemporary writer. The tour is not needed here: firstly, and so it is clear that this is the author's cane, and this is a photo with his beloved dog. Secondly, the girls-keepers know a lot and are happy to share information (one of them speaks excellent Russian.)

Then (or before someone likes it more) you come across a nice avenue to the concert hall, designed in such a way as to be as painless as possible in the surrounding landscape. The hall is located under the mound, and its roof is lined with turf with green grass, and the view of the lake is organically included in the interior. Near the hall is a monument to the composer in full size, which at first it is difficult to believe: Grig was really very miniature

Below, between the hall and the shore, the "creative" hut of the composer was bent. Looking inside through the window, you can imagine how the masterpieces were born: it seems, in this situation, and the most untalented scribe would be honored for a fruitful work. A small wooden lodge in one room, a piano and a small carpeted topchanchik, a rocking chair and a chest in the corner. The old desk right in front of the window, outside the window - the water is framed by pine trees and silence.

Finally, through a damp wooded gully you come to a lake shore. On the way you will see the very rock with the tomb in the vertical wall, where the bodies of Edward and Nina are immured. On the lakeside there is "his" bench, here is the mooring place of "his" boat for fishing

The music of Edward Grieg is the very sound of Norway . This is exactly what the concert series are called, which take place in the house museum every year . @ The concert season opens in Trollhauhen on the composer's birthday, June 15, and then lasts about 10 weeks . Here deserved pianists are invited not only from the country but from all over the world . Arriving here by bus on a comprehensive ticket, you get to Trollhausen just half an hour before the day's speech . It lasts and this is the optimal time so that even small fans of the classics can not get bored . Moreover, Grieg's music is easy enough for modern perception, and the chamber concert hall Trollzalen is considered one of the most charming in Norway . Directly over the head of the pianist can be admired through the panoramic window with a lake smooth and fantasize about the mermaids and trolls . In a word, visit the Grieg house-museum and not go to the concert - lose half of the fun .

Trollhausen

Composer's room, Trollhausen