Edvard Grieg Alexander Greig, travelled widely, settling in Norway about 1770, and establishing business interests in Bergen. Edvard Grieg was raised in a musical family. His mother was his first piano teacher and taught him to play at the age of six. Grieg studied in several schools, including Tanks Upper Secondary School. In the summer of 1858, Grieg met the eminent Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, who was a family friend; Bull's brother was married to Grieg's aunt. Bull recognized the 15-year-old boy's talent and persuaded his parents to send him to the Leipzig Conservatory, the piano department of which was directed by
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