Musicology Annotation << Back Dissonances of Reception: the Norwegian and Russian Evaluation of Edvard Grieg’s Elegiac Songs, Op. 59 Asbj&#248;rn &#216;. Eriksen Edvard Grieg’s Elegiske dikt, op. 59, which includes settings of six poems by John Paulsen, has been highly praised by Russian musicologists, while Norwegian Grieg specialists, on the other hand, have denigrated it. The author suggests that the discrepancies within the evaluation have to do with different views on the poems and the work’s musical style. Keywords: Edvard Grieg, Grieg’s Elegiac Songs, Op. 59, History of reception, Analysis of the Nineteenth-Century Lied. Contacts: E-mail: a.o.eriksen@imv.uio.no Pp. 13-20.