Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan PatriotNorway's Ole Bull led one of the most remarkable and celebrated lives of the nineteenth century. Colorful and charismatic, he was a composer and virtuoso violinist who won acclaim from Moscow to Cairo and from Canada to Cuba, associated with the cultural elite of his day, and promoted himself and the culture of Norway with a flair that rivaled P. T. Barnum's. |
Contents
Nation and Family | 3 |
Ole Bull Meets Henrik Wergeland 18281831 | 13 |
Pleasures and Problems 18311833 | 20 |
Breakthrough in Italy 18331835 | 26 |
Recognition 18351836 | 37 |
Back to Norway via Moscow 18361838 | 46 |
Touring Europe 18381843 | 58 |
American Adventure 18431845 | 78 |
Last Years Bull and Boston 18761880 | 184 |
The Violinist and Folk Music | 203 |
The Violinist as a Cosmopolitan | 211 |
The Italian Style | 225 |
Music for the Public | 250 |
The Norwegian Style | 259 |
THE MAN AND THE MYTH | 269 |
The Myth | 277 |
From Algiers to Revolution 18451848 | 92 |
Norwegian Theater and Henrik Ibsen 18481852 | 102 |
OleanaA Paternalistic Colony 18521857 | 115 |
Ole Bull Meets Bjørnson 18571862 | 137 |
An Academy of Music 18621867 | 149 |
NorwegianAmerican 18671872 | 161 |
Second FamilyBull and Madison 18721876 | 174 |
List of Works | 293 |
Appendix A The Bull Name | 315 |
Musical Dedications | 321 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aarvig Adagio album leaf Alexander Bull American Anderson arranged artist audience Augundson autograph Bergen University Library Bjørndal Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Boston Bravura Variations Breve i Uddrag Bull played Bull wrote Bull's Bulls Breve Bulls Liv Cantabile Christiania COMP composed compositions concert critics December DESCRIP Edvard Grieg Example fantasy father February fiddler Gasparo da Salò hand copy Hardanger fiddle heard Henrik Wergeland Ibid Ibsen improvisation Italian Johan Jonas Lie Kunstnaren Oslo later Leif Ericson Leipzig letter Liszt Livshistoria Longfellow Lysøen Malibran Mannen March melody Mindeskrift Moderato Morgenbladet Morgenbladet 1852 musician Norges Norway Norway's Norwegian theater November Ola Linge Ole's Oleana opera Opus Oslo Library Paganini Paris PERF performed piece poem Polacca Guerriera Quartet Rondo Sæter Girl's Sunday Sara Schuberth slåtts song Spohr strings style Thorp tour Træk tunes University of Oslo UOslo Valestrand Vinje violin violin and piano violin solo violinist virtuoso Winter-Hjelm Wisconsin York