A biography of Ole Bull - composer, virtuoso violinist, child prodigy, friend of Schumann and Liszt and tireless promotor of Norwegian art and culture. It provides a comprehensive listing of his works, analyses of his compositions and their influences, and reviews of his performances.
Norway'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.
