Adolf Dahm-Petersen
Adolf Dahm-Petersen (born January 2, 1856 in Kristiania , † January 29, 1922 in Los Angeles ) was a Norwegian university teacher , singer and singing teacher .
Life
Adolf Dahm-Petersen, son of Johan Frode Petersen (1819–1913) and Helena Thalia Petersen b. Dahm (1828–1862), attended high school and the Norwegian Military Academy . Dahm-Petersen studied in Aachen and Karlsruhe . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Germania fraternity (today Teutonia ). He then studied piano with Hanna Bergwitz-Goffeng and Johan Svendsen , as well as singing with Emilio Belari.
On September 11, 1891, he married Susie Kreuder.
Dahm-Petersen's first concert took place in Carnegie Hall in 1894 . Further concerts followed in the USA , Norway and Denmark . He has also appeared as a soloist for the Oratorio Society of New York , Sousa's Band and the Damrosch Opera Company at Madison Square Garden .
Dahm-Petersen has served as the director of several singing associations and as a singing teacher at Cornell University and the Ithaca Conservatory of Music . His repertoire included more than a thousand songs and one of his students is Oliver Hardy .
literature
- “Grip's” historical souvenir of Cortland, 1899 - Internet Archive
- International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918 - Internet Archive
- New York Tribune , August 24, 1896.
- Obituary in Nordisk Tidende , March 16, 1922 S. 8th urn : nbn: no-nb_digavis_nordisktidende_null_null_19220316_32_11_1
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 121.
- Albert Ernest Wier: The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume . P. 410, 1938.
Individual evidence
- ^ California Death Index, 1905-1939 , database with images, FamilySearch ( familysearch.org : June 5, 2015), Adolph D Petersen, 1922; citing 1695, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento; FHL microfilm 1,686,046.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahm-Petersen, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian university professor, singer and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1922 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |