Ole Bull: A Memoir

by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

INDEX.

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., [86].
Augsburg, concerts at, [115].
Bach, Emil, [267].
Baillot, [20], [22], [40], [41], [74].
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, [1].
Berlin, Ole Bull in, [96], [97], [108], [124], [248].
Berlioz, [40].
Bernadotte (Karl Johan), [31].
Bettina Von Arnim, [238].
Björnson, Björnsterne, [236];
his funeral address, [317].
Bjornstjerna, Count, [119].
Bochsa, the harpist, [88].
Bologna, Ole Bull at, [55].
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, [35].
Brunswick, concerts in, [107].
Brussels, Ole Bull at, [124], [280].
Burgesh, Lord, [81].
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, [38], [107], [112].
Cessole, Count, [93].
Charleston, S. C., Ole Bull at, [157].
Chatsworth, stay at, [90].
Chicago, concerts at, [253].
Child, Mrs. L. M., quoted, [61], [66], [125], [153], [170], [172], [181];
visited by Ole Bull, [230].
Chopin, [49], [65].
Christian Frederic, Prince of Denmark, [32].
Christiania, Ole Bull at, [27], [40], [100],132, [134], [144], [148], [206], [245].
Cincinnati, concerts at, [254].

wins his first laurels at Bologna, [55];
invited to Florence, [61];
writes his “Quartetto a Violino Solo,” and “Preghiera d’una Madre,” [61];
begins his “Polacca Guerriera,” [62];
at Pierro a Silve, [62];
writes “Grammar of Violin,” [62];
visits Baths of Lucca, [63];
goes to Naples, [64];
to Rome in 1835, [65];
completes the “Polacca,” [66];
to Paris, and plays at the Grand Opera, [71];
criticised by Jules Janin, [71];
severe illness in 1836, [79];
goes to London, [80];
his troubles with Mori and Costa, [80];
plays for Duke of Devonshire, [83];
married in 1836, [76], [88];
concert tour with Bochsa, [88];
on death of Malibran, [89];
bursts a blood–vessel, [90];
at Chatsworth, [90];
becomes acquainted with Paganini at Paris, [92];
concerts at Brussels and Courtray, [93];
at Hamburg in 1838, [94];
at Berlin, [96], [97];
at Königsberg and Riga, [98];
at St. Petersburg, [98], [99];
at Moscow, [99];
hears of his father’s death, [99];
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,” [21];
in Paris in 1831, [48];
criticised by Jules Janin, [72];
meets Ole Bull, [92];
his playing, [157], [294];
Ole Bull compared with, [72], [192], [195].
Panama, Ole Bull sick at, [224].
Paris, Ole Bull at, [41], [71], [88], [92], [111], [119], [189], [196].
Patti, Adelina, [222].
Paulsen, Ole Bull’s first teacher, [10], [20], [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, [61], [63], [261].
Prague, concerts at, [129].
Pratté, his attacks on Ole Bull, [139]
Presburg, concerts at, [111].
Raab, concerts at, [111].
Rein, the poet, [35].
Rhaczek, owner of Cellini violin, [125].