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

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. His paternal grandfather was politician and judge Edvard Hagerup Bull. During September 1955 he married Anna Kvarme.

Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

Bull studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the 1952 . 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".

Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

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

Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

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

References

20th-century Norwegian composers

21st-century Norwegian composers

Norwegian classical composers

Norwegian Academy of Music alumni

Norwegian expatriates in France

Musicians from Bergen

Musicians from Bærum

1922 births

2012 deaths