- Regin Dahl
Regin Dahl (born
November 5 ,1918 inTórshavn ; diedMarch 29 ,2007 inCopenhagen ) was a Faroese author and music composer.Biography
Regin Dahl came from a literary family with his father being translator and provost
Jákup Dahl . [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=EzUXE3FNPZQC&pg=PA572&lpg=PA572&dq=%22regin+dahl%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=ygqHHjSJw4&sig=a4eFfTcKkrmQUYmCv5YseS55zso A History of Danish Literature By Sven Hakon Rossel pg 572] ] His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than many previous Faroese poets. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=P6bMn9c6musC&pg=PA485&lpg=PA485&dq=%22regin+dahl%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=_dmuRyLHRV&sig=Jjgi6p55je6x0fClMNiiRh9-I0o The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North] ] His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen and Dahl is also noted as a composer. In youth he did not know how to transcribe his compositions so would work on them in his head before performing them at cultural events. As a composer did musical settings for 34Erik Axel Karlfeldt poems and made around 450 compositions in all. [ [http://www.nordic-literature.org/2003/english/articles/126.htm Nordic Literature site] ]Web sources
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