Regin Dahl
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Regin Dahl was a Faroese author and music composer.
. His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than many previous Faroese poets. His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen; 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 he wrote musical settings for 34 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
poems and made around 450 compositions in all.
Biography
Dahl came from a literary family; his father was translator and provost Jákup DahlJákup Dahl
Jákup Dahl was a Faroese Provost and Bible translator. In 1908 he became known as a linguist with the first Faroese grammar lessons for school students.- Life and work :...
. His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than many previous Faroese poets. His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen; 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 he wrote musical settings for 34 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been rumored that he had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919.Karlfeldt was born into a farmer's...
poems and made around 450 compositions in all.