Sinding’s best-known work was published as Frühlingsrauschen in 1896, and it was in Germany rather than his native Norway that he found fame as a composer of songs and symphonies that, far more than in the case of Grieg, betray the baleful influence of Wagner upon their chromatic language. Sinding worked on the fourth, last and most anachronistically Romantic of them, subtitled ‘Winter and Spring’, until dementia overtook him in the late 1930s; weeks before his death he joined the Norwegian Nazi party, which hardly advanced his postwar reputation.