Ole Bull : Norway's romantic musician and cosmopolitan patriot /
"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...
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Language: | English Norwegian |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
c1993
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