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).

Life Born in Eferding, Dallinger came from a musical home and was introduced to house music at an early age. 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 , he studied music at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and graduated with the Staatsexamen for piano and the examination for field of study.

From 1975 to 1993, Dallinger taught as a music professor at the the subjects form theory, musical composition, organology, didactics and piano. Role models for his compositional work were Johann Nepomuk David and Helmut Eder.

Dallinger died in Eferding at the age of 87.

Awards 1954: Composition Prize (Art Promotion Prize) of the City of Linz. 1965: Austrian State Prize for music. 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). Little Suite - for clarinet, viola and cello (1961).

Solo music 20 kleine Stücke – for piano (1980). Präludium und Toccata – for organ (1981). Metamorphosen – for piano (1988). Sonatine – for guitar solo (1990). Melos – for flute solo (1996).

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