Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer) explained

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 French: Prix de Composition Musicale. 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Edvard Hagerup Bull er død - Ballade.no . www.ballade.no . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121001082617/http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2012031911171882506752 . 2012-10-01.
2. http://www.snl.no/Edvard_Hagerup_Bull/komponist Edvard Hagerup Bull – komponist
3. Web site: Edvard Hagerup Bull - 2. 25 February 2020.
4. http://tore.vamraak.no/slekt/slekt.asp?indnr=21032 Edvard Hagerup Bull genealogy
5. http://www.snl.no/Den_tr%C3%B8nderske_slekten_Bull Den trønderske slekten Bull
6. http://www.ballade.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002101215114359472190 Biography