Regin Dahl

Regin Dahl
Born	5 November 1918 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Died	29 March 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Faroese
Occupation	poet composer

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

Biography

Dahl came from a literary family; his father was 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; 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.^[3] In the mid 1990s, Marianne Clausen made music transcriptions of his many compositions, and published them as Atlantsløg and Atlantsløg II under his name.^[4][5][6]

Recognition

Dahl was honoured in 1998 with the Faroese Cultural Prize.^[7] He was the first person to receive this award. It has been given to a Faroese artist (writer, musician, painter etc.) almost every year since 1998.

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
4. Regin Dahl (1996): Atlantsløg, edited by Marianne Clausen and Zakarias Wang, 282 pp, Stiðin ISBN 99918-42-02-0
5. Regin Dahl (1997): Atlantsløg II, edited by Marianne Clausen and Zakarias Wang, 69 pp, Stiðin ISBN 99918-42-03-9
6. Regin Dahl (2005): Atlantsløg, box with 25 cds, produced by Kristian Blak, Tutl (contains 439 sound recordings corresponding to music transcriptions in the books Atlantsløg and Atlantsløg II, edited by Marianne Clausen and Zakarias Wang)
7. MMR.fo, Virðislønir, heiðursgávur og sømdarpeningur