Adolf Dahm-Petersen (2 January 1856 – 29 January 1922) was a Norwegian voice specialist and

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. Adolf Dahm-Petersen, son of Johan Frode Petersen (1819–1913) and Helena Thalia P. née Dahm (1828–1862), was born in

Kristiania Oslo ( or ; ) 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 1,064,235 in 2022, an ...

, now

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. After attending gymnasium and the Royal Military Academy in Norway, he studied at the universities in

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and

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, Germany. Furthermore, he studied

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with Hanna Bergwitz-Goffeng,

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with

Johan Svendsen Johan Severin Svendsen (30 September 184014 June 1911) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, he lived most of his life in Copenhagen, Denmark. Svendsen's output includes two symphonies, a vi ...

, and voice with Emilio Belari. On 11 September 1892 he married Susie Kreuder. His debut in concert was in

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in 1894, after which he gave concerts in the US, Norway and Denmark. He also appeared as a soloist with the

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and the

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under the direction of

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. Dahm-Petersen was director of several choral organizations, and was a vocal instructor at the

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and

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. His repertoire included more than a thousand songs and his students included

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. He died in Los Angeles in 1922.

References

"Grip's" historical souvenir of Cortland
1899.
International who's who in music and musical gazetteer
1918.
New-York Tribune. August 24
1896. * Obituary i
Nordisk Tidende, March 16, 1922, p. 8
1922.

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External links

Discography of American Historical Recordings, University of California Santa Barbara
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahm-Petersen, Adolf 1856 births 1922 deaths Norwegian Military Academy alumni Ithaca College faculty Cornell University faculty Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Norwegian male singers Voice teachers Norwegian emigrants to the United States Musicians from Oslo