The remaining years of his life were spent partly in Norway and partly abroad. In 1884-85, he built the villa, "Troldhaugen" ("The Troll's Hill"), six miles south of Bergen. Since 1936, "Troldhaugen" has been a Grieg museum and a major tourist attraction.

Throughout his later years Grieg was a traveling ambassador for his own music, appearing before enthusiastic audiences as a conductor pianist in a number of European music centers, such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Birmingham, Cologne, Copenhagen, London, Munich, Paris, Prague, Stockholm, Vienna, and Warsaw. As the leading Scandinavian composer of his time, Grieg as awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, as well as a large number of other distinctions. (Finn Benestad, Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe).

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