Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

{{Short description|Norwegian composer (1922–2012)}}

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Edvard Hagerup Bull (10 June 1922 – 15 March 2012{{cite web |url=http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2012031911171882506752 |title=Edvard Hagerup Bull er død - Ballade.no |website=www.ballade.no |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001082617/http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2012031911171882506752 |archive-date=2012-10-01}} ) was a Norwegian composer.[http://www.snl.no/Edvard_Hagerup_Bull/komponist Edvard Hagerup Bull – komponist] (Store norske leksikon)

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.{{Cite web|url=http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Edvard_Hagerup_Bull/utdypning_%E2%80%93_2|title=Edvard Hagerup Bull - 2|date=25 February 2020}} His paternal grandfather was politician and judge Edvard Hagerup Bull. During September 1955 he married Anna Kvarme.[http://tore.vamraak.no/slekt/slekt.asp?indnr=21032 Edvard Hagerup Bull genealogy][http://www.snl.no/Den_tr%C3%B8nderske_slekten_Bull Den trønderske slekten Bull] (Store norske leksikon)

Bull studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the 1952 {{lang|fr|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".[http://www.ballade.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002101215114359472190 Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205022751/http://www.ballade.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002101215114359472190 |date=2008-12-05 }} at the Music Information Centre, Norway {{in lang|en|fr}}

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