Summary
[...] Dahl was a Jew; second, he was homosexual; third, he was an aesthetic iconoclast, or at least became one in later life. In 1971 the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society established the Ingolf Dahl Prize for the best student paper in musicology, and in 1981 the annual Ingolf Dahl Lectures on music history and theory were first presented at USC, where many of his papers and manuscripts are kept today. The absence of footnotes and bibliography is understandable, but the absence of information about where, precisely, particular issues are discussed-Dahl's citizenship is but one example-means that one must read much or all of Linick's work in order to locate individual facts or anecdotes.
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The Lives of Ingolf Dahl
The Lives of Ingolf Dahl. By Anthony Linick. Bloomington, IN: Author - House, 2008. [vi, 644 p. ISBN 9781438914015 (hardcover), $23; ISBN 978143480036 (paperback), $16.50.] Illustrations, index.
As a composer, Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970) has mostly been forgotten. Nevertheless, he was-and today remains-an interesting individual as well as a creative musician of consequence.Born "Walter Ingolf Marcus" in Ham - burg, Dahl studied composition with Philipp...See the full content of this document
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