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).
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 Bundesrealgymnasium Schloss Traunsee, he studied music at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and graduated with the Staatsexamen for piano and the Lehramt examination for field of study.
From 1975 to 1993, Dallinger taught as a music professor at the Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz the subjects form theory, musical composition, organology, didactics and piano.
From 1993, he was a freelance composer and painter. He had been a member of the Eferdinger Künstlergilde since 1955 and was also among the members of the Künstlervereinigung MAERZ. His works as a painter included abstract paintings and landscape painting. Role models for his compositional work were Johann Nepomuk David and Helmut Eder.
Dallinger died in Eferding at the age of 87.
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