Ole Bulls Polka ved Christian Olsen Score and part

by Christian Olsen

$25 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

First edition

Folio. 3 pp. + 1f. violin part.Light uniform browning; slightly creased. First Edition. Rare 1 copy located outside of Denmark, at NYPL .Christian Olsen was a folklore collector from a well-known and successful Danish family, who had their large farm and estate Torpelund near Eskebjerg in Zealand. The polka was apparently taught to Olsen's father by a travelling violinist who had learned it from Bull himself. Famed Norwegian

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