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Karl-Birger Blomdahl

1916 - 1968

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Karl-Birger Blomdahl (19 October 1916 – 14 June 1968) was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in Swedish modernism. His teachers included Hilding Rosenberg. He died in Kungsängen, Stockholm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl-Birger Blomdahl is the 1,241st most popular composer (up from 1,259th in 2019). (up from 4,247th in 2019)

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Among composers, Karl-Birger Blomdahl ranks 1,241 out of 1,451. Before him are Granville Bantock, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Boris Tishchenko, Cecilia Seghizzi, Thomas Campion, and Milton Babbitt. After him are Cachao, Hilding Rosenberg, Ivor Novello, Emil Hartmann, William Schuman, and Leigh Harline.

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Among people born in 1916, Karl-Birger Blomdahl ranks 242. Before him are Yvon Petra, David Douglas Duncan, Karen Lachmann, Helene Hanff, Ondina Valla, and Milton Babbitt. After him are David Brown, Lennart Klingström, Toni Branca, Roy Ward Baker, Dorothy Cheney, and Julien Darui. Among people deceased in 1968, Karl-Birger Blomdahl ranks 219. Before him are Adolf Möller, Albert Dekker, Charles Henry Bartlett, Sid Kimpton, Marguerite Clayton, and Aleksandr Arbuzov. After him are Anna Kavan, Francis Frederick, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Edward Moore, and Tommy Noonan.

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