Viking Dahl
{{Short description|Swedish composer, painter and author}}
Viking Dahl (8 October 1895 – 5 January 1945) was a Swedish composer, active also as a painter and an author.
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Biography
Frode Viking Samson Dahl was born in Osby in Scania, Sweden. He was the son of Samuel Dahl (1847-1932) and Katarina Lovisa Peterson (1859-1931). He was the grandson of Swedish priest Gustav Leonard Dahl (1801-1877). His elder brother was Swedish-American Lutheran pastor and author K. G. William Dahl (1883-1917). His cousin was Swedish architect Frans Gustaf Abraham Dahl (1835-1927).{{cite web|url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/?Sokord=Carl+G.+V.+Dahl&page=5&postid=ArkisRef+SE%2FGLA%2F3122&flik=1&type=2&s=Balder
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Dahl studied at the Royal College of Music 1915-1919 in Stockholm and thereafter in Copenhagen and Berlin. During a stay in Paris 1920, he wrote the dance drama Maison de Fous for Ballets Suédois. He developed his own avant-gardism during his studies in Stockholm, and in Paris he met the radical French composers of the time, among them Darius Milhaud and Maurice Ravel.{{cite web|url= http://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/dahl-viking/SMH-W1118-Maison_de_Fous
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When he returned to Sweden, Dahl worked as a piano and music teacher. He was also an organist and choir director at Varberg in Halland where he lived until his death.
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External links
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=Miscellaneous=
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191928/http://www.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/personer.nsf/LookupBiografier/9AB9626BCF07DD9C41256492002D1EB0?OpenDocument Viking Dahl, biography] (in Swedish)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202920/http://www.muslib.se/ebibliotek/STM/STM1980/STM1980_2Hoijer.pdf Viking Dahl and the Piano], by Olof Höjer (in Swedish)
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Category:People from Osby Municipality
Category:Swedish male composers
Category:Royal College of Music, Stockholm, alumni
Category:20th-century Swedish composers
Category:20th-century Swedish male musicians
Category:20th-century Swedish musicians
Category:Musicians from Skåne County
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