Fridolin Dallinger

Fridolin Dallinger (born February 16, 1933 in Eferding ) is an Austrian composer , music teacher and painter .

Training and professional activity

From 1946 he studied at the Bruckner Conservatory with Helmut Eder ( music theory ) and from 1953 composition at the music school of the city of Linz with Robert Schollum . Between 1948 and 1953 he graduated from the Linz Teachers Training College . From 1958 to 1961 he was in the school service and taught as a primary school teacher in Eferding and St. Leonhard near Freistadt , and also at the music schools in Eferding and Waizenkirchen .

While working as a music educator at the Federal Educational Institute Schloss Traunsee , he completed a music course at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and graduated with the state examination for piano and the teaching examination for school music (subject) . From 1975 he taught at the Pedagogical Academy of the Diocese of Linz .

Since 1993 he has been a freelance composer and painter. He has been a member of the Eferding Artists 'Guild since 1955 and is also a member of the MAERZ artists' association . His works as a painter include abstract pictures and landscape painting.

Works

Role models for his compositional work were Johann Nepomuk David and Helmut Eder . His ballet The Seven Deadly Sins was performed at the Linzur State Theater in 1968 . His works include symphonies , sinfonietta , cantatas , oratorios , masses and other choral works, songs and chamber music , including:

• Asinus Rex (opera)
• The Roaring Twenties (Musical)
• Pictures of an Attitude, The Glory of War, The Danube (Cantatas)
• The Tower of Babel (Oratory)
• Unsa bugladö Welt (Heimatlied from the Mühlviertel, text: Albrecht Dunzendorfer )

Awards

• Theodor Körner Prize
• Composition Prize (Art Promotion Prize) of the City of Linz (1954)
• Austrian State Prize (1965)
• Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria (1981)
• Heinrich Gleißner Prize (1997)
• Anton Bruckner Prize of the Province of Upper Austria (2003)
• Culture Medal of the State of Upper Austria (2008)
• Ring of honor of the city of Eferding
• Honorary citizen of the city of Eferding since 2013

literature

• Georgina Szeless : Fridolin Dallinger , biography, Linz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-85499-305-6 .

Web links

• Works by and about Fridolin Dallinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fridolin Dallinger , in: Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon
• Fridolin Dallinger , in: Composers Database
• Fridolin Dallinger, in: database music austria, music, information center austria

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fridolin Dallinger, in: 1000 compatriots, OÖN of June 7, 2004
2. ↑ Quarter Time No. 2/2008, Oberösterreichisches Volksliedwerk, Linz 2008, p. 5.