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OLE BORNEMANN BULL (18ro-188o) , See also: Norwegian violinist, was See also: born in See also: Bergen, See also: Norway, on the 5th of See also: February 1810.- At first a pupil of the violinist See also: Paulsen, and subsequently self-taught, he was intended for the See also: church, but failed in his
See also: examinations in 1828 and became a musician, directing the philharmonic and dramatic See also: societies at Bergen
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In 1829 he went to See also: Cassel, on a visit to See also: Spohr, who gave him no encouragement
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He now began to study See also: law, but on going to See also: Paris he came under the influence of See also: Paganini, and definitely adopted the career of a See also: violin virtuoso
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He made his first appearance in See also: company with See also: Ernst and Chopin at a concert of his own in Paris in 1832
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Successful See also: tours in See also: Italy and See also: England followed soon afterwards, and he was not long in obtaining See also: European celebrity by his brilliant playing of his own pieces and arrangements
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His first visit to the See also: United States lasted from 1843 to 1845, and on his return to Norway he formed a scheme for the establishment of a Norse theatre in Bergen; this became an accomplished fact in 1850; but in consequence of harassing business complications he went again to See also: America
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During this visit (1852–1857) he bought 125,000 acres in See also: Potter county, Pennsylvania, for a Norwegian colony, which was to have been called Oleana after his name; but his title turned out to be fraudulent, and the troubles he went through in connexion with the undertaking were enough to affect his See also: health very seriously, though not to hinder him for long from the exercise of his profession
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Another attempt to found an See also: academy of See also: music in See also: Christiania had no permanent result
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In 1836 he had married Alexandrine Felicie Villeminot, the See also: grand-daughter of a lady to whom he owed much at the beginning of his musical career in Paris; she died in 1862
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In 187o he married Sara C
.
Thorpe of Wisconsin; henceforth he confined himself to the career of a violinist
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He died at Lyso, near Bergen, on the 17th of See also: August 1880
.
Ole Bull's-"See also: polacca guerriera " and many of his other violin pieces, among them two concertos, are interesting to the virtuoso, and his fame rests upon his prodigious technique
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The memoir published by his widow in 1886 contains many illustrations of a career that was exceptionally brilliant; it gives a picture of a strong individuality, which often found expression in a somewhat boisterous See also: form of See also: practical See also: humour,
There is a fountain and portrait statue to his memory in the Ole Bulls Plads in Bergen
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