Viking Dahl
Viking Dahl (8 October 1895 – 5 January 1945) was a Swedish composer, active also as a painter and an author. [1]
Biography
Frode Viking Samson Dahl was born in Osby in Scania, Sweden. He was the son of Samuel Dahl (1847-1932) and Katarina Lovisa Peterson (1859-1931). He was the grandson of Swedish priest Gustav Leonard Dahl (1801-1877). His elder brother was Swedish-American Lutheran pastor and author K. G. William Dahl (1883-1917). His cousin was Swedish architect Frans Gustaf Abraham Dahl (1835-1927).[2][3][4]
Dahl studied at the Royal College of Music 1915-1919 in Stockholm and thereafter in Copenhagen and Berlin. During a stay in Paris 1920, he wrote the dance drama Maison de Fous for Ballets Suédois. He developed his own avant-gardism during his studies in Stockholm, and in Paris he met the radical French composers of the time, among them Darius Milhaud and Maurice Ravel.[5]
When he returned to Sweden, Dahl worked as a piano and music teacher. He was also an organist and choir director at Varberg in Halland where he lived until his death.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Free scores
Miscellaneous
- Viking Dahl, biography (in Swedish)
- Viking Dahl and the Piano, by Olof Höjer (in Swedish)
Script error: No such module "Authority control". Template:Asbox
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- Composers with IMSLP links
- Articles with International Music Score Library Project links
- 1895 births
- 1945 deaths
- People from Osby Municipality
- Swedish composers
- Swedish male composers
- Swedish artists
- Royal College of Music, Stockholm, alumni
- 20th-century Swedish composers
- 20th-century Swedish male musicians
- 20th-century Swedish musicians
- Musicians from Skåne County