Regin Dahl

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Regin Dahl (born November 5, 1918 in Tórshavn; died March 29, 2007 in Copenhagen) was a Faroese author and music composer.

[edit] Biography

Regin Dahl came from a literary family with his father being translator and provost Jákup Dahl.[1] His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than many previous Faroese poets.[2] His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen and Dahl is also noted as a composer. In youth he did not know how to transcribe his compositions so would work on them in his head before performing them at cultural events. As a composer did musical settings for 34 Erik Axel Karlfeldt poems and made around 450 compositions in all.[3]

[edit] Web sources

  1. ^ A History of Danish Literature By Sven Hakon Rossel pg 572
  2. ^ The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the History of the North
  3. ^ Nordic Literature site
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