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On 12 September 1899, Edvard Grieg did something few composers or performers ever do – turn down a lucrative, high-profile booking with a leading orchestra. The invitation to guest-conduct a concert of his own works with the Colonne Orchestra in Paris, where Grieg had appeared three times previously, would normally have been highly appealing. But the tone of the Norwegian composer’s