Most influentual Norwegian giant

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Not from the list I would say Niels Abel, the Norwegian mathematician responsible for group theory and showing that polynomials greater than degree four have no general solution in radicals.

 

I might have voted for Munch but you can't eat his paintings. 

Not from the list I would say Niels Abel, the Norwegian mathematician responsible for group theory and showing that polynomials greater than degree four have no general solution in radicals.

From the list I think Grieg is most important. I mean, where would a bugs bunny episode have been without his music?

June wrote: Grieg, I think... When I read the title, for some reason I thought it had to do with Troll Hunter

^ that looks promising though i have not heard about that, cool a troll-movie.

^ good for you  or to impress ladys (to play some Morning mood while eating dinner on a summer evning.

Edited by aginor - August 31 2010 at 12:42

Funny result so far, as this poll shouldn't be answered in a purely subjective manner.

Grieg influenced some proggers to record horrible versions of In the Hall of the Mountain King (joke). His kind of romantic nationalism was happening all over Europe at the time, and he wasn't the first to come up with anything. Grieg is about as influential as... say Glück or Scriabin. Nothing wrong with that.

Munch the most important one for me personally, and together with Van Gogh he more or less defined the look of expressionism. Ibsen is one of a handful of greats playwrights almost as influental as Shakespeare.

So Ibsen it is.

Phew, I expected Dimmu Borgir. 

Voted for Munch.

Grieg's my favorite.  I had this piece of his that I had heard of when I was a little kid and was stuck in my head.  Never knew the composer or the title.  A college professor actually played it in a history class before I found out what it was.