Johan Kvandal
David Johan Kvandal was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Kristiania to David Monrad Johansen and Amunda Holmsen, with the family later moving to Bærum where Kvandal also 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, 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, and from 1976 to Lilleba Lund.
