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OLE BORNEMANN BULL (18ro-188o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 . In 1829 he went to See also:Cassel, on a visit to See also:Spohr, who gave him no encouragement . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 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 . 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 . Another See also:attempt to found an See also:academy of See also:music in See also:Christiania had no permanent result . 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 . In 187o he married Sara C . See also:Thorpe of See also:Wisconsin; henceforth he confined himself to the career of a violinist . He died at Lyso, near Bergen, on the 17th of See also:August 1880 .

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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 . 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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