David Johan Kvandal (né Johansen; 8 September 1919 – 16 February 1999) was a Norwegian composer.
Career
He was born in
Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
to
David Monrad Johansen and Amunda Holmsen, with the family later moving to
Bærum
Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...
where Kvandal died.
He took his studies in conducting and organ at
Oslo Conservatory, and studied composition from Marx at the Hochschule für Musik, Vienna, and Boulanger in Paris. He served as a music critic for the Oslo newspapers ''
Morgenposten'' and ''
Aftenposten
( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 milli ...
'', and as organist of the Vålenengen Church in Oslo. Many of his works utilize folk elements. Among his compositions are ' from 1951, ' for a television drama series from 1968, ' from 1974, and ' from 1984. His opera ', with libretto based on
Hamsun's novel, was staged at
Den Norske Opera in 1994.
He was married twice, first to Maria Teresia Unterrainer (from 1951), and from 1976 to
Lilleba Lund.
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References
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1919 births
1999 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
Musicians from Bærum
Artists from Oslo
Norwegian classical composers
Norwegian contemporary classical composers
Norwegian male classical composers