Famous norwegians and monuments

Some days ago my freemason loge arranged a tour visiting the graves of famous norwegians. What I find so disturbing about monuments is that the artists we are celebreating after they are dead, actually have been struggling against the narrow mindness of those people celebreating them. And the worst thing is that they say Grieg (the composer), Munch (the painter) and Ibsen (the play writer), are one of us. That those great artist lived abroad for mostly of their lifetime is not so important for the common narrow minded norwegians. I was asked by my brethren from my loge to talk about the composer Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935), a great composer whom was a great orchestrator, and helped Grieg to transcribe folk music which later was published as Griegs Lyric Pieces. Halvorsen wrote mostely music for theatre, but as he retiered in 1929 he started to write music in a larger scale. But unfortunately for the the music history, he had only six years to do this. He could have been the norwegian Sibelius or Nilsen, but sorry not... So Grieg went out to be THE norwegian composer with his folk music ripp offs.