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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Arnold Olaf Sundgaard</b> (* <a href="31._Oktober" title="31. Oktober">31. Oktober</a> <a href="1909" title="1909">1909</a> in <a href="Saint_Paul_(Minnesota)" title="Saint Paul (Minnesota)">Saint Paul</a>, <a href="Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>; † <a href="22._Oktober" title="22. Oktober">22. Oktober</a> <a href="2006" title="2006">2006</a> in <a href="Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>) war ein <a href="USA" class="mw-redirect" title="USA">US-amerikanischer</a> Librettist und Dramatiker.
</p><p>Sundgaard studierte bis 1935 Anglistik an der <a href="University_of_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin">University of Wisconsin</a> und besuchte die <i>Yale Drama School</i>. Bekannt wurde mit dem Drama <i>Spirochete</i> über die Bekämpfung der Syphilis, das 1938 beim <i>Chicago Federal Theater Project</i> aufgeführt wurde. Später verfasste er etwa ein halbes Dutzend Stücke, die am Broadway aufgeführt wurden, darunter <i>Of Love Remembered</i> (unter <a href="Burgess_Meredith" title="Burgess Meredith">Burgess Meredith</a>).
</p><p>Als Librettist und Liedtexter arbeitete Sundgaard u. a. mit <a href="Kurt_Weill" title="Kurt Weill">Kurt Weill</a> und <a href="Alec_Wilder" title="Alec Wilder">Alec Wilder</a> zusammen. Für Weill schrieb er das Libretto zu der Oper <i><a href="Down_in_the_Valley_(Oper)" title="Down in the Valley (Oper)">Down in the Valley</a></i>, für Wilder u. a. den Liedtext <i>How Loveley Is Christmas</i> (für das Album <i>Bing Crosby's White Christmas</i>) und das Libretto zur Oper <i>The Lowland Sea</i>. Für <a href="Douglas_Moore" title="Douglas Moore">Douglas Moore</a> schrieb er das Libretto zur Oper <i>Giants in the Earth</i> nach <a href="Ole_Edvart_R%C3%B8lvaag" title="Ole Edvart Rølvaag">Ole Edvart Rølvaag</a>, für die Moore 1951 den <a href="Pulitzer-Preis" title="Pulitzer-Preis">Pulitzer-Preis</a> für Musik erhielt.
</p><p>In späteren Jahren verfasste Sundgaard Bilderbücher für Kinder, so <i>The Lamb and the Butterfly</i> mit dem Illustrator <a href="Eric_Carle" title="Eric Carle">Eric Carle</a> (1988) und <i>The Bear Who Loved Puccini</i> mit <a href="Dominic_Catalano" title="Dominic Catalano">Dominic Catalano</a>.
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<ul><li>Margalit Fox: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/obituaries/31sundgaard.html"><i>Arnold Sundgaard, Lyricist and Playwright, Is Dead at 96</i></a>, Nachruf in der New York Times vom 31. Oktober 2006</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/4255">Arnold Sundgaard</a> in der <a href="Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a> (englisch)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1032959/">Arnold Sundgaard</a> bei <a href="IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-11-10/bay-area/17319125_1_composers-as-kurt-weill-small-opera-rolvaag">San Francisco Chronicle - <i>Arnold Sundgaard - librettist and writer</i></a></li></ul>
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