Ingolf Dahl

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Ingolf Dahl (born June 9, 1912 in Hamburg , † August 7, 1970 in Frutigen near Bern ) was an American composer , conductor and pianist with German-Swedish parents.

Life

Ingolf Dahl was born in Hamburg in 1912. His parents were of German-Jewish and Swedish origin. From them he got his maiden name Ingolf Marcus, which he later dropped in the USA. For this he used the maiden name of his non-Jewish mother Hilda Maria Dahl. He received piano lessons as a child and attended the Lichtwark School in Hamburg. From 1930 to 1932 he studied composition with Philipp Jarnach and Hermann Abendroth at the Musikhochschule in Cologne . Against the background of the political situation in Germany at that time, he felt threatened because of his Jewish descent. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 and continued his studies at the Zurich Conservatory with Volkmar Andreae and Walter Frey . He later studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in California .

Among other things, he gained orchestral experience as a conductor with the orchestra of the Stadttheater in Zurich . In 1938 he settled in Los Angeles in the United States of America. From then on his musical activities developed immensely, both as a composer for radio and film, as well as his activities as a conductor, piano soloist and lecturer.

In 1943 he received US citizenship.

In 1945 he became a faculty member at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and remained so until his death. There he worked in the fields of conducting , composition and music history . Among many others, the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the composer Frederick Myrow were among his students.

He also worked for the Middlebury Composer's Conference in Vermont and taught from 1952 to 1955 at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood .

In addition to teaching, he was the conductor of the University of Southern California Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1958. In addition to the standard repertoire, he performed many contemporary works with the orchestra. For example, he programmed new works by Aaron Copland , Lukas Foss , Charles Ives , Walter Piston and Carl Ruggles . From 1961 and 1962 he was on concert tour in Germany . From 1964 to 1966 he directed and conducted the Ojai Festival in California . In the last years of his life he also conducted the orchestra of the Los Angeles Guild Opera .

Compared to the large scope of his other activities, the composer's oeuvre was not large. His style contained some neoclassical elements.

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1938 Variations on a French Folktune for flute, piano and orchestra
  • 1952–1970 Symphony Concertante for two clarinets and orchestra
  • 1954 The Tower of Saint Barbara Symphonic legend in four movements
  • 1963–1970 Elegy Concerto for violin and small orchestra, unfinished; 1971 completed by Donal Michalsky
  • 1965 Aria Sinfonica
  • 1965 Quodlibet on American Folktunes
  • 1967 Variations on a Theme by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • 1967 Four Intervals
  • Hymn

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1949/1953 Concerto for alto saxophone and wind orchestra
    1. Recitative
    2. Adagio (Passacaglia)
    3. Rondo alla marcia
  • 1961 Sinfonietta for concert band

Chamber music

  • 1942 Allegro and Arioso for wind quintet
  • 1944 Music for Brass Instruments
    1. Choral Fantasy "Christ was in death bands"
    2. intermezzo
    3. Fugue
  • 1945/1962/1970 Variations on a Swedish Folktune for solo flute
  • 1946 Concerto a tre for violin, violoncello and clarinet
  • 1946/1948 duo for violoncello and piano
  • 1946 Notturno for violoncello and piano
  • 1948 Divertimento for viola and piano
  • 1957 Couperin Variations for recorder or flute and harpsichord or piano
  • 1957 piano quartet
  • 1960 Serenade for four flutes
    1. Allegro moderato
    2. Cadenza
    3. Canon
    4. Pas de Quatre
    5. Alla Marcia
  • 1962 piano trio
  • 1966 Duettino Concertante for flute and percussion
  • 1968 IMC Fanfare for three trumpets and three trombones
  • 1969 Fanfare on A and C dedicated to Aaron Copland - for three trumpets, horn, baritone and trombone
  • 1970 Sonata da camera for clarinet and piano
  • 1970 Five duets for two clarinets
  • 1970 Small canonical suite for violin and viola

source

This article is essentially based on the following website: biography and catalog raisonné. classical-composers.org, accessed on January 21, 2009 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Saffle: Ingolf Dahl . In: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era, University of Hamburg 2007 [1]
  2. ↑ Anthony Linick: The Lives of Ingolf Dahl . Bloomington (IN) 2008
personal data
SURNAME Dahl, Ingolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1970
Place of death Frutigen , Switzerland