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...matter how miserable his actual life, the classical composer tends to suffer in a new way on film. Cornel Wilde as Chopin in A Song to Remember; Stewart Granger as Paganini in The Magic Bow; Toralv Maurstad as Grieg in Song of Norway-all were grotesque travesties. Thus The Music Lovers is merely the latest entry in the continuing series Great Lives Trivialized...
...portrayed by Norwegian Actor Toralv Maurstad, Grieg comes across as a cross between Horatio Alger and Jackie Coogan. He confides to his close friend, Rikard Nordraak (Frank Poretta), "I was beginning to lose any hope, Nordraak, of ever being important." The plot follows Grieg's agonized crawl to fame, illustrated principally by a lot of fancy name-dropping. "I've written 15 songs for the poems of Hans Christian Andersen," he shyly admits. Cries Nordraak, eagerly: "Has Hans heard these?" Later, Grieg's wife Nina (Florence Henderson) sighs: "How do you suppose the others managed?" Replies...
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