Jörg Ewald Dähler

Jörg Ewald Dähler (16 March 1933 – 3 November 2018), was a Swiss conductor, harpsichordist, fortepiano player and composer. Life Born in Bern, Dähler, son of the reformed pastor Karl Walter Dähler (1903–1986), grew up in Langnau im Emmental. He then attended the teacher training college in Hofwil. At the Hochschule für Musik in Bern, he graduated as a teacher of piano and then studied harpsichord at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau. He taught basso continuo, chamber music, and choral conducting at the Berne Conservatory of Music and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. His pupils included Olive Emil Wetter and Hans Eugen Frischknecht. From 1965 to 1998, he conducted concerts in Bern, at the Bätterkinden Gasthof Krone and the Hindelbank castle, and from 1974 onwards, the Bern Chamber Choir. He also practised drawing. He illustrated two collections of short stories by his father, written in the Bern dialect of German: “Momou das git’s” (Langnau im Emmental, 1983 ) and Ou das het’s ggä (idem, 1986). Works * Das Passionsgeschehen nach dem Evangelisten Lukas (The Passion event according to Luke the Evangelist). For 8-voice mixed choir, narrator, trombone quartet, and organ. 19