Ole Bull

INDEX.

Reading edition

Aix–la–Chapelle, Ole Bull at,

244

Alexander, the prestidigitateur,

174

Algiers, concerts in,

193

Amsterdam, concerts at,

134

Andersen, Hans C., letter to Ole Bull,

105

;

meets him in Marseilles,

193

;

quoted,

129

150

Andunson, Thorgeir,

201

Antwerp, concerts at,

124

Appleton, Mr. T. G.,

272

299

301

Artot, the violinist,

151

161

Assandri, Mdlle.,

Augsburg, concerts at,

115

Bach, Emil,

267

Baillot,

Baltimore, concerts at,

164

178

213

216

Bates, Miss C. F., sonnet to Ole Bull,

300

Bavaria, Queen Dowager of,

115

Bendixen, Mr., remarks at Ole Bull’s funeral,

324

Bennett, J. G.,

233

Bergen,

Berlin, Ole Bull in,

108

124

248

Berlioz,

Bernadotte (Karl Johan),

Bettina Von Arnim,

238

Björnson, Björnsterne,

236

;

his funeral address,

317

Bjornstjerna, Count,

119

Bochsa, the harpist,

Bologna, Ole Bull at,

Booth, Edwin,

305

Bordeaux, concerts at,

191

196

Borgund church, the,

147

Boston, concerts at,

165

170

176

254

271

305

Botta, Mrs., her “Farewell,”

187

Boucher, the brothers,

142

Bremen, concerts at,

107

143

Breslau, concerts at,

110

131

Bristol, R. I., Ole Bull at,

168

Brizzi, Leader of the Orfeo at Florence,

262

Brun, J. N., the poet,

Brunswick, concerts in,

107

Brussels, Ole Bull at,

124

280

Burgesh, Lord,

Cairo, Egypt, visit to,

270

California, tour in,

224

Cambridge, residence in,

299

;

concert in,

305

Carlsbad, Ole Bull at,

239

Cary, Alice, visit to,

165

Cassel, Ole Bull at,

107

112

Cessole, Count,

Charleston, S. C., Ole Bull at,

157

Chatsworth, stay at,

Chicago, concerts at,

253

Child, Mrs. L. M., quoted,

125

153

170

172

181

;

visited by Ole Bull,

230

Chopin,

Christian Frederic, Prince of Denmark,

Christiania, Ole Bull at,

100

,132,

134

144

148

206

245

Cincinnati, concerts at,

254

Clay, Henry, note from,

213

Clemmer, Mrs. Mary, quoted,

166

Coblentz, Ole Bull at,

251

Colton, Mr. W. E.,

293

Copenhagen, Ole Bull at,

105

134

141

144

148

213

248

Cornelius, the painter,

114

Costa, the director,

Criticisms of Ole Bull: London

Times

;

New York Herald

179

276

292

;

Corsaire Satan

189

;

Le Constitutionnel

190

;

Le Sud

192

;

the

Español

195

;

the Valencia

Fenix

196

;

Geo. Wm. Curtis (in

New York Tribune

216

;

Southern paper,

222

;

New York Evening Post

234

;

Philadelphia paper,

253

;

New York Tribune

255

292

;

Corriere Italiano

262

;

Philadelphia

Press

278

;

Boston

Journal

292

Crosby, Dr. A. B., paper by,

279

Cuba, visit to,

161

Curtis, Geo. Wm., criticisms by,

216

Dahl, the painter,

130

Damerond, Princess, and her soirée,

142

Damoreau, Madame,

151

158

De Beriot at Milan,

;

at Lucca,

;

at Naples,

;

at London,

Devonshire, Duke of,

Döhler, the pianist,

142

Doremus, Prof. R. O.,

255

280

Dovrefjeld, Ole Bull ascends the,

146

Dresden, concerts at,

129

132

Dufours, Dr.,

115

Duncker defends Ole Bull at Christiania,

208

Duprez assists Ole Bull in concerts at Florence,

Ebeling, Adolf, quoted,

266

Egeberg family, the,

132

Eidsvold, constitutional convention at,

Elssler, Fanny,

143

238

Ericsson, John,

258

;

letter from,

259

Ernst plays with Ole Bull in 1832,

;

meets him in Copenhagen,

142

;

at Baden–Baden,

239

Essipoff, Madame,

276

Everett, Edward, quoted,

275

Fasting, the poet,

Faxe, Bishop,

138

Fearnley, the artist,

Fétis, Monsieur,

124

Fields, James T., quoted,

314

;

Ole Bull spends New Year’s Eve with,

276

Finck, the musical critic,

109

Finland, tour in,

100

243

Fiorentino, P. A., criticism on Ole Bull,

190

Florence, concerts in,

261

Frederic, King of Denmark,

105

Frederic VI. of Norway,

146

Frimann, the brothers,

Fuller, Margaret, quoted,

167

Galizin, Princess,

Geijer, Gustaf,

137

German violinists, Ole Bull upon,

294

Gerster, the singer,

282

Gertner, the painter,

147

Godesberg, Ole Bull breaks a rib at,

244

Goldschmidt, Mr., quoted,

201

Gould, T. R., quoted,

158

Grieg, the composer,

296

;

address at funeral,

323

Grisi, Madame,

Gude, the painter,

200

206

211

Guild, Mr. Curtis, address by,

272

H. H., quoted,

240

Habeneck, the musical director,

294

Hale, Rev. E. E., address by,

272

275

Hamburg, Ole Bull at,

132

134

143

213

237

243

Hanover, concerts in,

107

Havana, visit to,

162

Heidelberg, concerts at,

112

124

Hellmesberger, Mr. J.,

282

Helmholtz, the physicist,

260

Hiller, the composer,

116

Hjelm, Winter, quoted,

206

Holberg, the poet,

Holland House, Ole Bull at,

Holstein, Prince of,

251

Horsford, Professor,

276

306

Hulder, the,

Isabella II. of Spain,

194

Janson, Kristofer,

201

Joachim, the violinist,

239

;

quoted,

321

Jules Janin’s criticism,

135

Karl Johan, King,

132

146

149

Kiel, concerts in,

Königsberg, concerts in,

249

Lablache, the singer,

Lacour and his violin varnish,

Lamartine,

196

Lapinsky, the violinist,

110

Laporte, director of Opera at London,

Lausanne, Ole Bull at,

Leipsic, concerts at,

124

Letters: to Mdlle. Villeminot,

;

on death of Malibran,

;

to his wife from Lübeck,

;

from Berlin,

;

on his father’s death,

;

in 1839,

112

;

about Liszt,

120

;

from Liszt,

123

283

;

from Prague,

129

;

from St. Petersburg,

131

;

on the Upsala affair,

136

;

from Stockholm,

139

;

from New Orleans,

161

;

from New York,

179

;

from Vuillaume,

197

;

from Hans Gude,

211

;

from Wergeland,

212

;

to his brother from Georgia,

223

;

from C. A. Seward,

229

;

from E. W. Stoughton,

230

;

from Mrs. H. B. Stowe,

233

;

from A. O. Winje,

236

;

from Fanny Elssler,

237

;

to his son from Vienna,

238

;

from Pesth,

239

;

from Hamburg,

243

;

from Christiania,

247

;

from Königsberg,

249

;

from Wiesbaden,

249

;

to his son in Paris,

251

;

from St. Petersburg,

252

;

from J. Ericsson,

259

;

from Helmholtz,

260

;

to Liszt,

283

Lexington, Ky., visit to,

213

Lie, Jonas, quoted,

199

210

248

Linz, concerts at,

111

Liszt, the pianist,

119

122

124

239

264

282

Longfellow: his “Skeleton in Armor,”

274

;

Christmas with,

276

;

references to Ole Bull, in “Tales of a Wayside Inn,”

287

;

his 73d birthday,

299

Lovenhjelm, Swedish minister at Paris,

Löwenskjold,

132

Lübeck, concerts at,

Lund, concerts at,

133

Lundholm, the violinist,

140

Luneburg, concerts at,

148

Lyons, concerts at,

192

Lysekloster,

284

308

Lysö, Ole Bull’s residence,

261

285

299

306

309

Madison, Wis., Ole Bull at,

256

Madrid, concerts at,

194

Malibran, Madame: at the Paris Opera, in 1831,

;

at Milan,

;

at Lucca,

;

anecdotes of,

295

;

at London,

;

her death,

Mammoth Cave, visit to,

175

Marchesi, Madame Mathilde,

282

Marseilles, concerts at,

192

196

Martha, the housekeeper,

287

311

May 17th, Independence Day in Norway,

Mayence, concerts at,

116

Mecklenburg–Schwerin, the Duchess of,

Mendelssohn,

109

124

281

Merlin, Madame,

113

Metternich,

Meyerbeer,

Milan, Ole Bull at,

Milwaukee, Ole Bull at,

253

Mobile, visit to,

158

Möllar–gutten, the peasant violinist,

201

Moltke, Baron,

113

Monrad, the poet,

Montebello, Duke of,

Montfort, Prince of,

114

Moore, Dr., of Liverpool,

306

314

Moore, Thomas,

Morandi, the secretary,

119

Morges, visit to,

Mori, the first violin at London Opera,

Moscheles,

Mozart, Ole Bull’s rendering of and reverence for,

110

111

145

294

Mozart, Madame,

111

114

Munch, the poet,

133

Münden, the concert at,

Munich, concerts at,

114

Musæus, Ole Bull’s tutor,

Naples, Ole Bull at,

Naples, Queen Dowager of,

Nassau, Duke of,

250

Neumünster, concerts at,

New Orleans, Ole Bull at,

157

161

174

New York, concerts at,

151

169

170

176

178

180

216

305

Nilsson, Christine,

282

Norwegian dances,

201

;

history,

;

literature,

;

National Theatre,

198

;

popular music,

203

Öhlenschläger, the Danish poet, quoted,

144

Ole Bull: his birthplace,

;

his parents,

;

“Uncle Jens,”

;

in the Latin School,

;

early ideas of music,

;

first violin,

;

first musical triumph,

;

plays Fiorillo’s “Studies,”

;

at Lysekloster,

;

at Valestrand,

;

first studies in violin construction,

;

death of baby sister,

;

plays in orchestra when nine years old,

;

taught by Lundholm,

;

first acquaintance with Paganini’s music,

;

his tutor Musæus,

;

examined for the University,

;

influence on Norwegian art,

318

;

on May 17th, 1829,

;

visits Spohr,

;

at Göttingen,

;

at Münden,

;

returns to Norway,

;

goes to Paris in 1831,

;

robbed of everything,

;

acquaintance with Vidocq,

;

at Frascati’s,

;

tempted to suicide,

;

meets Mdlle. Villeminot,

;

attacked with brain fever,

;

hears Paganini,

;

plays at the Duke of Riario’s,

;

gives concert under patronage of Duke of Montebello,

;

tour in Switzerland and Italy,

;

concert and studies at Milan,

;

writes his “Concerto in A major,”

;

visits Venice and Trieste,

;

wins his first laurels at Bologna,

;

invited to Florence,

;

writes his “

Quartetto a Violino Solo

,” and “

Preghiera d’una Madre,

”

;

begins his “

Polacca Guerriera

,”

;

at Pierro a Silve,

;

writes “Grammar of Violin,”

;

visits Baths of Lucca,

;

goes to Naples,

;

to Rome in 1835,

;

completes the “Polacca,”

;

to Paris, and plays at the Grand Opera,

;

criticised by Jules Janin,

;

severe illness in 1836,

;

goes to London,

;

his troubles with Mori and Costa,

;

plays for Duke of Devonshire,

;

married in 1836,

;

concert tour with Bochsa,

;

on death of Malibran,

;

bursts a blood–vessel,

;

at Chatsworth,

;

becomes acquainted with Paganini at Paris,

;

concerts at Brussels and Courtray,

;

at Hamburg in 1838,

;

at Berlin,

;

at Königsberg and Riga,

;

at St. Petersburg,

;

at Moscow,

;

hears of his father’s death,

;

tour in Finland,

100

;

at Stockholm,

100

;

at Christiania in 1838,

100

;

at Bergen,

104

;

writes “The Mountains of Norway,”

104

;

third Continental tour,

105

;

at Copenhagen,

105

;

at Hamburg,

107

;

visits Spohr again at Cassel,

107

;

goes to Berlin,

108

;

criticised by Finck,

109

;

in Breslau and Vienna,

110

;

his rendering of Mozart,

110

;

visits Hungary,

111

;

at Salzburg, the home of Mozart,

111

;

returns to Paris,

111

;

revisits Germany,

112

;

to Paris again in 1839,

112

119

;

death of his child and his grandmother,

113

;

his business habits,

117

;

goes to London in 1840,

119

;

his troubles with Morandi,

119

;

with Liszt in London,

119

120

122

;

goes to Belgium, the Rhine, and Heidelberg,

124

;

in Berlin at the coronation of King William,

124

;

in Dresden and Prague,

129

;

writes his “Concerto in E minor,”

129

;

his “Grüss aus des Ferne,”

130

;

tour in Russia,

131

;

sick at St. Petersburg,

131

;

visits Norway,

132

;

tour in Holland,

134

;

and in Sweden,

135

;

his letter on the Upsala affair,

136

;

concert and “Sexa” at Upsala,

137

;

troubles at Stockholm,

139

;

celebrates Karl Johan’s birthday,

140

;

meets his old teacher Lundholm,

140

;

at Copenhagen,

141

;

publishes three compositions,

143

;

birth of a daughter,

144

;

visits Throndhjem and climbs the Dovrefjeld,

146

;

plays for peasants at Sogn,

147

;

sails for America in 1843,

148

;

concerts in New York and elsewhere,

151

152

;

makes Southern tour,

157

;

on the Mississippi,

159

;

visits Cuba, and writes two compositions there,

161

;

returns to the United States,

164

;

arrested by Schubert,

164

;

visits Alice Cary,

165

;

tour in New England, New York, and Canada,

168

;

writes the “Niagara,”

168

;

plays it in New York,

169

;

writes “Solitude of Prairies” and “David’s Psalm,”

169

;

tour in Mississippi Valley,

175

;

in the Mammoth Cave,

175

;

at St. Louis,

176

;

returns to New York and Boston in October, 1845,

176

;

writes his “Memory of Washington,”

176

;

plays for the blind in New York,

178

;

rejoins his family in Europe,

188

;

concerts in Paris in 1846,

189

;

gives banquet at Bordeaux,

191

;

in Toulouse, Lyons, and Marseilles,

191

;

tour in Algiers in 1847,

193

;

tour in Spain,

194

;

composes “La Verbena de San Juan,”

194

;

returns to Paris,

196

;

to Norway again,

198

;

works to found a National Theatre,

198

;

plays at festival in aid of the Theatre,

206

;

composes his “Saeterbesög,”

206

;

troubles with the police in Bergen,

207

;

visits Prussia,

213

;

sails again for America in January, 1852,

213

;

invited to give concert in Washington,

214

;

buys land for Norwegian colony,

221

;

tour to the West and South,

222

;

goes to California via Panama,

224

;

finds that the title to his Pennsylvania lands is fraudulent,

225

;

prostrated with fever in Illinois,

227

;

his lawsuits with the swindlers,

228

;

visits Mrs. Child,

230

;

returns to Norway in 1857,

235

;

at the German baths,

237

;

in Vienna and Pesth,

238

;

spends a summer at Carlsbad,

239

;

returns to Norway, and buys Valestrand,

239

;

tour in Finland in 1860,

243

;

in England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1861–62,

243

;

death of his wife,

243

;

breaks a rib at Godesberg,

244

;

plans a Norse Music Academy,

245

;

death of his son Thorvald,

248

;

concerts in Germany, Poland, and Russia, in 1863–67,

248

;

his interest in political events,

252

;

composes “The Nightingale,”

252

;

to America again in November, 1867,

253

;

in steamboat collision on the Ohio,

254

;

at the Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1869,

254

;

to Norway in April, 1870,

255

;

his second marriage,

257

;

return to the United States,

257

;

his improvements of the piano,

257

;

spends summer of 1872 in Norway,

261

;

builds house at Lysö,

261

;

winter in the South of France,

261

;

concerts in Florence,

261

;

visits the North of Norway,

264

;

celebrates his birthday in 1876 on the Pyramid of Cheops,

266

;

returns to the United States,

270

;

concerts in Boston,

271

;

in New York,

276

279

;

to Norway in 1877,

280

;

spends winter on the Continent,

280

;

the next summer in Norway,

284

;

his life at Lysö,

285

;

return to the United States in the fall of 1878,

291

;

writes the “Violin Notes,”

292

;

summer of 1879 in Norway,

296

;

return to the United States and residence at Cambridge,

299

;

celebration of his 70th birthday,

299

301

;

concerts in spring of 1880,

305

;

sails for Europe in June,

305

;

his arrival at Lysö,

311

;

his death,

314

;

the funeral services,

315

;

address of Björnstjerne Björnson,

317

;

of Edward Grieg,

323

;

of Mr. Bendixen,

324

;

the last tribute of the peasants,

324

Oscar, King,

297

Paganini: his “Caprices,”

;

in Paris in 1831,

;

criticised by Jules Janin,

;

meets Ole Bull,

;

his playing,

157

294

;

Ole Bull compared with,

192

195

Panama, Ole Bull sick at,

224

Paris, Ole Bull at,

111

119

189

196

Patti, Adelina,

222

Paulsen, Ole Bull’s first teacher,

102

Pesth, concerts at,

111

238

Philadelphia, Ole Bull at,

152

178

216

225

Pianoforte, Ole Bull’s improvements in,

257

Ploug, Carl,

248

Poniatowsky, Prince,

261

Prague, concerts at,

129

Pratté, his attacks on Ole Bull,

139

Presburg, concerts at,

111

Raab, concerts at,

111

Rein, the poet,

Rhaczek, owner of Cellini violin,

125

Riario, Duke of,

Riga, concerts at,

Rome, Ole Bull at,

264

Ronzi di Begnis, Madame,

Rossini, at Paris in 1836,

Rostock, concerts at,

Rubini sings at Ole Bull’s concerts in London, 1836,

;

and the Duke of Devonshire,

;

at Amsterdam,

134

St. Louis, concerts at,

176

St. Petersburg, visits to,

131

Salzburg, Ole Bull at,

111

Sand, George, her reference to Ole Bull,

Sbolczis, Professor,

261

Schlesinger, the publisher,

119

Schleswig, concerts in,

Schubert, the music publisher,

143

148

164

213

Schumann, Vieuxtemps on,

281

Schwanthaler, the sculptor,

114

Schwerin, concerts in,

Seward, C. A., letter from,

229

Seward, W. H.,

Sibbern, Minister,

216

Sind, the banker,

Sogn, Ole Bull plays for the peasants at,

147

Sontag, Madame,

131

Soot, Engebret,

103

Spohr,

107

Stewardson, Mr.,

225

Stockholm, Ole Bull at,

100

243

266

Storm, Edvard, the poet,

Stoughton, E. W.,

228

229

Stowe, Mrs. H. B., letter from,

231

Strakosch, Amalia Patti,

222

Strakosch, Maurice,

222

276

Stuttgart, concerts at,

115

Tamburini sings with Ole Bull in London,

Thalberg, at Paris,

;

at London,

;

note from,

233

Thorwaldsen, the sculptor,

106

275

Thrane, Waldemar,

199

Throndhjem, Ole Bull at,

146

Thursby, Miss Emma,

277

279

305

Ticknor, George,

168

Tidemand, the painter,

200

206

Tordenskjöld, the naval officer,

Toulouse, concerts at,

192

Trieste, concerts at,

“Uncle Jens,”

Upsala, Ole Bull at,

135

Valestrand,

132

239

250

Venice, Ole Bull at,

Vermeulen, Monsieur,

Vidocq and Ole Bull,

Vienna, Ole Bull at,

110

111

126

238

281

Vieuxtemps, the violinist,

151

158

161

233

280

Vihe, the poet,

Villeminot, Madame,

Villeminot, Mdlle., the first wife of Ole Bull,

Violins, Ole Bull’s,

111

116

124

196

244

249

250

253

288

293

Vuillaume, the instrument maker,

116

162

197

Wallum, Pastor, at Ole Bull’s funeral,

317

Warsaw, concerts at,

131

Wedel–Jarlsberg, Count,

101

;

the Countess,

132

Weilburg, Ole Bull at,

250

Welhaven, the poet,

104

149

,319.

Wergeland, the poet,

139

140

149

321

;

quoted,

102

135

147

148

212

319

Wessel, the poet,

Whittier, J. G., the poet, letter from,

300

Wiesbaden, Ole Bull at,

249

284

Wiesener, Dr.,

314

Willis, N. P., quoted,

169

Wilna, concerts at,

131

Winding, Mr.,

Winje, A. O., the Norse poet,

200

236

Wise, Henry A.,

239

Wurtemberg, King of,

112

Youssuf, General,

193

Zampieri, Marquis,

Zatlitz, the poet,

Ziedler, the student,