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Dolf, Tumasch

LC control no.n 88669777
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LC classificationPC959.D6 CaOTU
Personal name headingDolf, Tumasch
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Associated countrySwitzerland
Associated placeGraubünden (Switzerland)
Birth date1889-07-31
Death date1963-10-03
Place of birthMathon (Switzerland)
Place of deathThusis (Switzerland)
Field of activityFolk music--Collectors and collecting Composition (Music) Music--Instruction and study Literature Folk literature
AffiliationSchweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Profession or occupationComposers Musicians Music teachers Folklorists
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers
Found inHis Las istorgias, 1954-: v. 1, t.p. (Tumasch Dolf)
Tumasch Dolf, cumponist ed autur, 2013: title page (Tumasch Dolf) page 85 (born in Mathon on July 31, 1889; died in Thusis on October 3, 1963; earned his teaching diploma in 1908; received his school musician diploma from the Zurich Conservatory in 1921; taught in various municipalities in the Graubünden canton from 1908-1952)
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS) website, viewed 2022 August 11 (Tumasch Dolf; one of the most important composers and collectors of Romansch folksongs; Schiller-Preis recipient; author of secular and religious songs and choruses, as well as short stories evoking the life and customs of the Schams region; worked for the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde and other organiztions promoting Romansch culture)
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Wikipedia (German), viewed 2022 August 11 (Tumasch Dolf; teacher, school musician, composer, choirmaster and song collector from the Romansch-speaking Schams in the canton of Graubünden; commissioned in 1912 by Caspar Decurtins to collect and record folk songs from the Schams area. The subsequent collection of texts and 30 notated melodies were published in the Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha)
   <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumasch_Dolf>
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