A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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directed his steps to Madrid. Here he was received with royal favour, and the Queen, in return for a composition dedicated to her Majesty, offered him the honorary rank of General which, however, he declined. Ole Bull now decided to return to Norway with the object of founding in Bergen, his native town, a national theatre. This resolve he carried out, and after a great expenditure of time and money, the establishment was opened on the 2nd January, 1850. In 1852 Ole Bull started on a second visit to America, and spent five years there, giving up much of his time in the endeavour to form a Scandinavian colony in Pennsylvania. In this venture he was unsuccessful, and this compelled him to take up his violin again in order to recoup the heavy losses he had thereby sustained. In 1857 ill health compelled Ole Bull to return to Norway, where his native air soon restored to him his old vigour, and for some time he undertook the direction of his theatre. In the following year he made a tour through Germany, in the course of which he met with Ernst, Joachim, and Liszt. While in Paris, in 1862, he received the sad news of the death of his wife, who, for a long period, had suffered ill-health. From 1863-1866 Ole Bull was concert giving in Germany and Russia with undiminished success. In 1867 he made
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