Viking Dahl

Viking Dahl (8 October 1895 – 5 January 1945) was a Swedish composer, active also as a painter and an author.

[1] Frode Viking Samson Dahl was born in Osby in Scania, Sweden.

His elder brother was Swedish-American Lutheran pastor and author K. G. William Dahl (1883-1917).

During a stay in Paris 1920, he wrote the dance drama Maison de Fous for Ballets Suédois.

He developed his own avant-gardism during his studies in Stockholm, and in Paris he met the radical French composers of the time, among them Darius Milhaud and Maurice Ravel.