Fridolin Dallinger

'''Fridolin Dallinger''' (16 February 1933 – 28 October 2020) was an Austrian composer, music educator and painter. He was the brother of composer Gerhard Dallinger (1940–2016).<ref name ="oeml">Elisabeth Th. Hilscher/Georg Demcisin, Art. „Dallinger, Brüder“, in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, Zugriff: 18. Mai 2021 (https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_D/Dallinger_Brueder.xml).</ref>

== Life == Born in Eferding, Dallinger came from a musical home and was introduced to house music at an early age.<ref name ="micabio">mica (update date: 28 April 2020): "Biografie Fridolin Dallinger". In music database of mica - music austria. Available online at: https://db.musicaustria.at/node/52304 (retrieval date: 18 May 2021).</ref> He studied from 1946 at the Anton Bruckner Private University music theory with Helmut Eder and from the year 1953 composition at the Musikschule der Stadt Linz with Robert Schollum. In between, from 1948 to 1953, he graduated from the Lehrerbildungsanstalt Linz. From 1958 to 1961 he was in the teaching profession and taught as an Volksschule teacher in Eferding and St. Leonhard bei Freistadt, as well as at the music schools in Eferding and Waizenkirchen.

While working as a music teacher at the {{Ill|Bundesrealgymnasium Schloss Traunsee|de}}, he studied music at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and graduated with the ''Staatsexamen'' for piano and the {{Ill|Lehramt|de}} examination for field of study.

From 1975 to 1993, Dallinger taught as a music professor at the {{Ill|Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz|de}} the subjects form theory, musical composition, organology, didactics and piano.<ref name ="micabio" />

From 1993, he was a freelance composer and painter. He had been a member of the Eferdinger Künstlergilde since 1955 and was also among the members of the Künstlervereinigung MAERZ. His works as a painter included abstract paintings and landscape painting.<ref>[https://www.nachrichten.at/archivierte-artikel/serien/landsleute/Fridolin-Dallinger;art10236,45311 Fridolin Dallinger, in: 1000 Landsleute, OÖN of 7 June 2004]</ref> Role models for his compositional work were Johann Nepomuk David and Helmut Eder.

Dallinger died in Eferding at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/nachrufe/komponist-der-klaenge-und-farben;art86198,3317820|title= Komponist der Klänge und Farben|publisher= Oberösterreichische Nachrichten|date=2020-10-31 |access-date= 28 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wirtrauern.at/traueranzeige/fridolin-dallinger |title=Traueranzeigen von Fridolin Dallinger |work=wirtrauern.at |date=3 November 2003 |access-date= 28 August 2021}}</ref>

== Awards == * 1954: Composition Prize (Art Promotion Prize) of the City of Linz. * 1965: Austrian State Prize for music.<ref>Rudolf Flotzinger, Art. „Preise/Preisträger“, in Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, retrieved 28 August 2021(https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_P/Preise.xml).</ref> * 1967: Theodor Körner Prize * 1977: Ehrenring der Stadt Eferding * 1981: Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich * 1997: Heinrich Gleißner Prize * 2003: Anton Bruckner Prize * 2008: Kulturmedaille des Landes Oberösterreich * 2013: Ehrenbürger der Stadt Eferding

== Works == === Ensemble music === * ''Spielmusik'' - for string trio (1950).<ref name="micawerke">mica (update date 28 April 2020) : "Werkeverzeichnis Fridolin Dallinger". In: mica music database - music austria. Available online at https://db.musicaustria.at/node/52304 (retrieved 18 May 2021).</ref> * ''Little Suite'' - for clarinet, viola and cello (1961).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Three Songs'' - for soprano, clarinet, viola and cello to texts by Wilhelm Busch, Josef Weinheber and Hermann Hesse. (1961)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Zoologia buffa'' - for narrator, woodwinds, brass and percussion on texts by Wilhelm Busch (1964).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Sonata'' - for viola and piano (1965).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Bauernlieder'' - cycle based on texts by Georg Trakl for soprano, flute, viola and cello (1966).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Des Krieges Ruhm'' - cantata for mixed choir, reciter, two pianos and percussion on texts by George Forestier, Peter Huchel and Wilhelm Lehmann (1969).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Quintet'' - for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1970).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Kleine Spielmusik'' - for string quartet (1971).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Five Pieces'' - for clarinet and percussion (1972).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Quartettino'' - for flute (piccolo), oboe (English horn), cello and harpsichord (1973).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Sonatine'' - for flute and guitar (1973).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Sonatine'' - for baritone and harpsichord (1974)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Concertino'' - for Violine, Klarinette und Streichorchester (1974)Doblinger 07316 * ''Elegy'' - for violin and piano (1984).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Trio'' - for mandolin, guitar and harp (1985)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Five Aphorisms'' - trio for flute, guitar and viola after verses by Gertrud Fussenegger (1992).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Sechs Volkslieder im Satz'' - for 2 violins (1994).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Tief im Schlummer seufzt die bange Seele'' - for oboe and organ (1999)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''4 Stations in the Life of Gertrud Fussengegger'' - string trio for violin, viola and cello (2002).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Metamorphoses on a Theme by Max Reger'' - for cello and piano (2003).<ref name="micawerke" />

=== Vocal music === * ''Organon'' - melodrama for two-part female choir, male choir, narrator and instruments after a text by Kurt Klinger. (1953)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Death'' - for mixed choir to a text by Matthias Claudius (1955)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Three cheerful choruses after poems by Eugen Roth'' - for mixed choir (1956)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Human Landscapes'' - cycle after Josef Weinheber for mixed choir (1964)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Ich wandle finster, ohne Trost'' - for upper choir (1967)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Ade, ihr Felsenhallen'' - for mixed choir (1975)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Himmlischer Vater'' - for mixed choir to a text by Hans Sachs (1976)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Five Choruses after Wilhelm Busch'' - for mixed choir (1976)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Hunnenzug'' - for mixed choir (1977)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Offside'' - for male choir (1980)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Four Animal Songs'' - for mixed choir after poems by Josef Guggenmos and Christian Morgenstern (1983)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Two Pedagogical Choruses'' - for mixed choir after texts by Christine Busta and Bertolt Brecht (1987)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Was der Wald sah'' - for mixed choir to a text by Erich Fried (1988)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Trust in the Light'' - for mixed choir to texts by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1990)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''The Danube'' - secular oratorio for soprano, baritone, choir, organ and orchestra. Text: Gertrud Fussenegger (1992-1993)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Lullaby in Winter'' - for male choir (1997)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Herrgott, du bist Anfang und End'' - dialect mass for mixed choir after texts by Hans Dieter Mairinger (2002).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Unsa bugladö Welt'' – Heimatlied aus dem Mühlviertel, text Albrecht Dunzendorfer.<ref>''Vierteltakt'' Nr. 2/2008, Oberösterreichisches Volksliedwerk, Linz 2008, {{p.|5}}.</ref>

=== Solo music === * ''20 kleine Stücke'' – for piano (1980).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Präludium und Toccata'' – for organ (1981).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Metamorphosen'' – for piano (1988).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Sonatine'' – for guitar solo (1990).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Melos'' – for flute solo (1996).<ref name="micawerke" />

=== Stage music === * ''Die sieben Todsünden (Gesellschaft für einen Abend)'' – Ballett für großes Orchester (1965/1970) Uraufführung: 30. März 1968 am Landestheater Linz<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Die Goldenen Zwanziger'' – The Roaring Twenties. Musical, text Adolf Opel (1988)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Passion'' – Stage music for the Gospel play after Friedrich Zauner (2003)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Johannes-Rufer in der Wüste'' – Stage music for the Gospel play after Friedrich Ch. Zauner (2005)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''St. Georgener Totentanz'' – Bühnenmusik für Chor, Kammerorchester/Ensemble und Solostimme(n) after texts by Hans Dieter Mairinger (2005)<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Zeichen und Wunder'' – Bühnenmusik zum Evangelienspiel Friedrich Ch. Zauner (2005).<ref name="micawerke" /> * ''Das Grab ist leer'' – Bühnenmusik zum Evangelienspiel nach Friedrich Ch. Zauner (2006).<ref name="micawerke" />

== Further reading == * {{Cite book |last=Szeless |first=Georgina |title=Fridolin Dallinger |publisher=Trauner Verlag |year=2012 |isbn=978-3-85499-305-6 |pages=96 |language=de}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{DNB portal|119484528}} * [https://data.onb.ac.at/nlv_lex/perslex/CD/Dallinger_Fridolin.htm ''Fridolin Dallinger'', in Nachlässe in Österreich - Personenlexikon] * [https://www.komponisten.at/komponisten/254.html ''Fridolin Dallinger'', in Komponistendatenbank] * [https://www.musicaustria.at/ein-eigensinniger-im-besten-wortsinn-fridolin-dallinger-im-mica-portraet/ Ein Eigensinniger im Besten Wortsinn: Fridolin Dallinger im mica-Porträt] on ''musicaustria.at'' * {{discogs artist}}

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