OLE Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot

by Einar Ingvald Haugen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299132501
• ISBN13: 9780299132507
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"