Emma Dahl (6 April 1819 - 13 December 1896) was a Norwegian (originally German) opera singer and

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.Cecilie Dahm: Kvinner komponerer: ni portretter av norske kvinnelige komponister i tiden 1840-1930. Solum Forlag. Oslo 1987. She made a successful opera tour in Germany, Denmark and

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in 1836-41. After her marriage to the Norwegian publisher Johan Fjeldsted Dahl in 1841, she settled in Oslo, where she was active as a concert singer and a music instructor and hosted a literary salon which was a center of the city's artistic life. She made her debut as a composer in 1863.

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