Images of BergenIn 1977, the US researcher Charles R. Ervin came to #Bergen to examine famous musician and composer Ole Bull's Gaspara da Salo violin.
A child prodigy, Bull was a solo violinist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at age nine, and a orchestra director at 18. He went to Paris to further educate himself, was room mate with Chopin and played with Paganini and Franz Liszt, and was one of the people who advised a young Edvard Grieg to develop his talents in Leipzig.
Bull was both a luthier, and a collector of famed violins from Amati, Gasparo da Salò, Guarneri, Stradivari and others. This violin, made for Ferdinand II, Arch Duke of Austria, is considered one of the finest in the world – and is currently in the Bergen Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Permanenten, in Bergen.
Photo by Finn Tollefsen for the Dagen newspaper, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-ft-02765-006.html
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A child prodigy, Bull was a solo violinist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at age nine, and a orchestra director at 18. He went to Paris to further educate himself, was room mate with Chopin and played with Paganini and Franz Liszt, and was one of the people who advised a young Edvard Grieg to develop his talents in Leipzig.
Bull was both a luthier, and a collector of famed violins from Amati, Gasparo da Salò, Guarneri, Stradivari and others. This violin, made for Ferdinand II, Arch Duke of Austria, is considered one of the finest in the world – and is currently in the Bergen Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Permanenten, in Bergen.
Photo by Finn Tollefsen for the Dagen newspaper, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-ft-02765-006.html
#Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Historical #MusicHistory #BlackAndWhitePhotography
Steinar Bang
