Edvard Grieg great admirer of Grieg's music and a strong empathy was quickly established. In a 1907 interview, Grieg stated: “I have written Norwegian Peasant Dances that no one in my country can play, and here comes this Australian who plays them as they ought to be played! He is a genius that we Scandinavians cannot do other than love.” Edvard Grieg died at the Municipal Hospital in Bergen, Norway in the late summer of 1907 at age 64 from heart failure. He had suffered a long period of illness. His last words were "Well, if it must be so." The funeral
Ludvig Müller much farther north. He died at the German spa town Bad Nauheim in 1922, after having finished a manuscript for "Den nye lensmannen", a silent movie released in 1926, four years after his death. He was born in Bergen as the son of writer Amalie Skram (1846–1905) in her first marriage to ship captain Bernt Ulrik August Müller (1837–98) of Bergen. His brother Jacob Worm Müller (1866–1911) became journalist and writer. In 1895 he married Signe Grieg (1868–1960), a cousin of the composer Edvard Grieg. Their son John Grieg Müller (1898–1938) wrote plays, whereas their daughter Else Ulrikke Ludvigsdatter Grieg