Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

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Edvard Hagerup Bull (10 June 1922 – 15 March 2012[1]) was a Norwegian composer.[2]

He was born in Bergen. He grew up in Jar outside Oslo in a musical and politically active family, the son of Sverre Hagerup Bull and his wife Aldis Jebsen.[3] His paternal grandfather was politician and judge Edvard Hagerup Bull. During September 1955 he married Anna Kvarme.[4][5]

Bull studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the 1952 Script error: No such module "Lang".. He was awarded the prize for musical composition from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He had additional training with the Austrian-born musicologist, Josef Rufer. Other teachers include Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen. His teacher Darius Milhaud described him as "a musician with a solid technique and a truly very enthralling, vigorous and highly imaginative personality".[6]

Edvard Hagerup Bull became a notable composer. He wrote two operas and thirty orchestral works and chamber music.[6]

Selected works

  • Den standhaftige tindsoldat, 1948–49
  • Sinfonia di Teatro 1950
  • Escapades, orkestersuite, 1952
  • Marionettes sérieuses, 1960
  • Epilogue for strykere, 1961
  • Münchhausen, 1961
  • Accents for klaver, 1968
  • Fløytekonsert, 1969
  • Fyrtøiet, 1973–74
  • Den grimme ælling, 1972–77
  • Variantes multi-métriques for klaver, 1975
  • Chant d'Hommage à Jean Rivier for orkester, 1976
  • Prélude con Fuoco for klaver, 1978
  • Den Grimme Ælling (Opera) 1972–77
  • Fyrtøyet (Opera) 1973–74

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  2. Edvard Hagerup Bull – komponist (Store norske leksikon)
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  4. Edvard Hagerup Bull genealogy
  5. Den trønderske slekten Bull (Store norske leksikon)
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