- Ingolf Dahl
Ingolf Dahl (b.
Hamburg ,Germany ,June 9 ,1912 ; d.Frutigen ,Switzerland , 1970) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Born to Swedish parents, he studied withPhilipp Jarnach at theCologne Hochschule für Musik , inCologne , Germany (1930-32). Fleeing Germany where the Nazi Party was coming to power, he continued his studies at theUniversity of Zürich withVolkmar Andreae andWalter Frey .Dahl emigrated to the United States in 1938, settling in
Los Angeles and joining the community of expatriate musicians that includedErnst Krenek ,Darius Milhaud ,Arnold Schoenberg ,Igor Stravinsky , andErnst Toch . Dahl became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943 and in 1945 he joined the faculty of theUniversity of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he taught until his death.Among Dahl's honors are two
Guggenheim Fellowship s, two Huntington Hartford Fellowships, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Southern California, and the ASCAP Stravinsky Award.Dahl's music has been recorded on the Boston Records, Capstone, Centaur, Chandos, CRI, Crystal, Klavier, Nimbus, and Summit labels.
Among Dahl's former students are the American conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas and the composerLawrence Moss .Dahl performed the second movement of Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)" in the 1969 animated film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown".
The [http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/locations/music/ Music Library of the University of Southern California] holds an Ingolf Dahl Archive, consisting of the composer's scores, manuscripts, papers, and tapes.
(Partial) list of works
* Music for Brass Instruments (Brass Quintet)
*Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
*Sinfonietta for Concert Band (1961)References
*Stevens, Halsey (1970). "In Memoriam: Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)." "Perspectives of New Music", vol. 9, no. 1 (Autumn 1970), pp. 147-148.
ee also
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Flute quartet External links
* [http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=103 Art of the States: Ingolf Dahl]
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