Alf Fasmer Dahl (20 May 1874 – 21 June 1933) was a Norwegian priest and composer. He was born in

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as a son of vicar and composer

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(1849–1919) and Julie Marie Fasmer (1847–1925). In 1900 he married banker's daughter Aagot Ellingsen (1873–1958). Their daughter Pauline Mathilde "Titt" Fasmer Dahl became a children's writer. Another daughter Esther married professor of medicine

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. He

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his secondary education in 1892, studied at the

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and graduated in 1898 with the

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degree. He served as a

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in the Church of our Lady, Trondhjem from 1899, then in the

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from 1904. He was again curate in

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from 1913 and

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from 1926. He was best known as a composer of

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and

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, and wrote songbooks and musicological articles on the genre. He was also a known singer, among others performing at the

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World Congress of 1900. He was a fellow of the

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The s ...

, and a board member of the Norwegian Seamen's Mission. He died in June 1933.

References

1914 births 1933 deaths Clergy from Trondheim University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy Norwegian male composers Composers of Christian music Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 20th-century Norwegian male singers 20th-century Norwegian singers 20th-century composers {{Norway-composer-stub