Edvard Hagerup Bull

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, who was a cousin of the composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg. During September 1955 he married Anna Kvarme.

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

Selected works Den standhaftige tindsoldat, 1948–49 Sinfonia di Teatro 1950 Concerto N°1 pour trompette et orchestre, 1950 Escapades, orkestersuite, 1952 Marionettes sérieuses, 1960 Concerto N°2 pour trompette et orchestre, 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