Ole Bulls plass
Central city square crowned by a bronze violinist and folklore water sprite, unveiled on national day.
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This guide to Ole Bulls plass in Bergen is about the bronze fiddler at its centre, Ole Bull, the nineteenth-century violin star Schumann compared to Paganini. It follows him home to Bergen in eighteen fifty, to a theatre built around a language question and a young playwright named Henrik Ibsen. Along the way you meet the sculptor Stephan Sinding and the folklore water sprite he cast beside the violinist. Best heard standing in front of the statue.
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