OLE BORNEMANN See also: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 See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the violinist See also:Paulsen, and subsequently self-taught, he was intended for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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 See also:influence of See also:Paganini, and definitely adopted the career of a See also:violin virtuoso
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He made his first See also:appearance in See also:company with See also:Ernst and See also:Chopin at a See also: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 See also: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 See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for the See also:establishment of a Norse See also: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 See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, for a Norwegian See also:colony, which was to have been called Oleana after his name; but his See also: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 See also: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 See also: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
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See also:Thorpe of See also: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
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Ole See also: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 See also:fountain and portrait statue to his memory in the Ole Bulls Plads in Bergen
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