Swedes mourn Pippi Longstocking composer

Swedes mourn Pippi Longstocking composer

RIP

norman lebrecht

February 26, 2024

The Czech-born composer Georg Riedel died yesterday, aged 90.

He was the composer on most movies made from the children’s stories of Astrid Lindgren, including the main theme of Emil i Lönneberga. ‘Ida’s summer song’ is known to most Swedes from their childhood.

Riedl arrived in Sweden aged four, a refugee from Germany’s occupation of Czech territory.

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