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
Stein Grieg Halvorsen Stein Grieg Halvorsen Halvor Bernt Stein Grieg Halvorsen (19 October 1909 – 11 November 2013) was a Norwegian theatre actor. He was born in Kristiania, the son of composer Johan Halvorsen (1864–1935) and Annie Grieg (1873–1957). He was married to Elizabeth Inga Else Margrethe Thaulow (1903–1968) from 1940, then after her death to Vibeke Laura Mowinckel Falk from 1971. Stein Grieg Halvorsen was employed at Nationaltheatret from 1928 to 1935, Den Nationale Scene from 1935 to 1936, and again Nationaltheatret from 1936 to 1939 and from 1945 to his retirement in 1997. His son, Stein Johan Grieg Halvorsen, is half