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Ingolf Dahl

(b. Hamburg, 9 June 1912; d. Frutigen, 6 Aug 1970),

American composer ofSwedish-German parentage. He studied with Jarnach at the Cologne Musikhochschule, with Andreae at the Zurich Conservatory and with Boulanger in California, where he settled in 1938 (teaching at the University of Southern California, 1945-70). Closely associated with Stravinsky's music as a writer, conductor and arranger (piano reductions of Danses concertantes and Scènes de ballet), he was influenced by Stravinsky in the leanness, vitality and serialism (from 1957) of his own music, which consists mostly of orchestral and instrumental works; notable are the Sinfonietta for concert band (1961) and the almost neo-Romantic Aria sinfonica (1965).