Ingolf dahl biography
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- Ingolf Dahl was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.
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The works of Ingolf Dahl, 50 years after his death, receive a revival
Composers Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky. Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and comedian Gracie Fields. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey and humorist Victor Borge. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Ingolf Dahl befriended, taught or collaborated with all these notables during his storied life, yet he remains strangely, and it can be argued, little known.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of this fascinating musical figure during the Oct. 29 installment of CSO Sessions, its weekly series of small-ensemble virtual concerts. Featured will be Music for Brass Instruments, which Dahl completed in 1944. The brass quintet had its premiere that year at the Festival of Modern Music, whose director Arthur Leslie Jacobs had commissioned it.
“When Ingolf Dahl wrote his Music for Brass Instruments 30 years ago, he signaled the beginning of the 20th-century brass renaissance — new music for a medium which had slept for over 200 years,” wrote Robert Posten, a co-founder of the Annapolis Brass Quinte
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A performer's and conductor's analysis of Ingolf Dahl's for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra
Abstract
Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra was written in 1949 for the famous concert saxophonist, Sigurd Rascher and was then revised to its present state in 1953. The concerto, widely known by saxophonists and wind band conductors alike, is considered among the finest of repertoire for band as well as for saxophone. Although Dahl’s concerto is one of the most frequently performed saxophone concerti, there has been surprisingly little written about it. Available published sources deal directly with the concerto, but do not address harmonic implications, the saxophone solo part, or the published wind band score. This document seeks to address this overlooked aspect of Dahl’s concerto and will provide a guide to assist performance from the point of view of the saxophone soloist as well as the conductor. The result is a new resource that will enable a greater harmonic understanding of the work for future performers. This dissertation begins with a brief discus
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Ingolf Dahl
German and American musician (1912–1970)
Ingolf Dahl | |
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Dahl c. 1968 | |
| Born | June 9, 1912 Hamburg, German Empire |
| Died | August 6, 1970(1970-08-06) (aged 58) Frutigen, Switzerland |
| Occupation(s) | Classical composer, pianist, conductor, educator |
Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.
Biography
Dahl was born Walter Ingolf Marcus[1] in Hamburg, Germany, to a German Jewish father, attorney Paul Marcus, and his Swedish wife Hilda Maria Dahl. He had two brothers, Gert Marcus (1914–2008; a noted Swedish artist and sculptor, and a recipient of the Prince Eugen Medal), and Holger, and one sister, Anna-Britta.[2]
In Hamburg, Dahl studied piano under Edith Weiss-Mann, a harpsichordist, pianist, and a proponent of early music. Dahl studied with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (1930–32). Dahl left Germany as the Nazi Party was coming to power and continued his studies at the University of Zurich, along with Volkmar Andrea
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