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portada Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
1993
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0299132501
ISBN13
9780299132507
Edition No.
1
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Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot

Einar Haugen (Author) · University Of Wisconsin Press · Hardcover

Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot - Einar Haugen

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Synopsis "Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot "

A child prodigy, Bull was admitted to the Bergen orchestra as first violin at the age of eight.  He soon was idolized on both sides of the Atlantic for his superb improvisations and his ability to play the violin polyphonically.  Though he was hailed as “the Paganini of the North,”  some critics labeled him a charlatan for his apparently magic tricks on the violin.    Bull counted among his friends the great names of his era:  Schumann and Lizst, Emerson and Wagner.  Longfellow and Hans Christian Andersen modeled characters on him, and he was in part the inspiration for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.    Although he spent most of his adult life abroad, Bull was a tireless promoter of Norwegian art and culture.  His concert improvisations were rooted in his native slåtter (folkdance tunes), and he modified his own instrument using the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle as a model.  By mid-century, Bull realized his dream of establishing a national theater in Bergen.  He gave Henrik Ibsen a start in theater management, employed the poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and promoted the music of Edvard Grieg.  His attempt to establish a Norwegian colony, “Oleana,”  in the United States, however, failed through poor management.    The words of the poet Aasmund Vinje, “That surely would be a man to write a book about,” have been taken to heart by authors Einar Haugen and Camilla Cai.  In addition to providing the first comprehensive listing of Bull’s works (with full descriptions of all known sources), analyses of his compositions and their influences, and reviews of his performances, this biography gives life once again to a fascinating and flamboyant figure.

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