Ole Bull - Legacy

Legacy

• Ole Bull's villa on the island of Lysøen was donated to the Association of Norwegian Ancient Monuments Conservation. Museet Lysøen consists of violinist Ole Bull's Villa, an old farm from the 17th century.

• Oleona, in Potter County, Pennsylvania, is situated in the mountains of northern Pennsylvania at the intersection of Pennsylvania routes 44 and 144 (Ole Bull Road).

• Ole Bull State Park in the Susquehannock State Forest is on the original site chosen for Bull's colony. The unfinished Ole Bull Castle is maintained by the park and can be visited by hikers. A monument to honor Ole Bull was placed in the park on the 150th anniversary of New Norway in 2002.

• Mammoth Cave in Kentucky has a room called Ole Bull's Concert Hall where he once gave performances.

• Loring Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the site of a bronze statue memorializing Ole Bull.

• Ole Bull Cottage, originally purchased to be a school for music by Ole Bull and his wife, is at Green Acre Baha'i School in Eliot, Maine. Erected in 1896, the Ole Bull Cottage currently serves as the school library building.

• Ole Bull Academy (Ole Bull Akademiet) in Voss, Norway is a music education institution founded in 1977.

• Ole Bull Scene is a stage for cabaret, music and theater at the Ole Bull Plass in Bergen, Norway.

• Ole Bull - Gasparo da Salò violin, a wonderful decorated masterpiece of the famous Italian maker that the virtuoso used for 40 years of world tournee. Now is in the Vestlandske Kustindustrimuseum in Bergen.

• In 2006, director Aslak Aarhus released a motion picture titled Ole Bull—The Titan, the story of Bull's exploits and the impact it had on his French wife and children, who remained neglected in Bergen.

• In 2010 the Norwegian record label 2L released world premiere recordings of Ole Bull's violin concertos and his Spanish fantasy La Verbena de San Juan and a previously unknown version for violin and strings of A Sæterbesøg. The performers on the disc are Annar Follesø, violin, and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud.