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Den som tonsatt flest sånger är Georg Riedel. Jan Johansson skrev musiken till Här kommer Pippi Långstrump och gick sedan plötsligt bort och Georg Riedel tog över med den äran. Riedel har skrivit musiken till filmerna om Emil i Lönneberga, Pippi Långstrump, Karlsson på taket samt Bullerbyn.
Han blev även känd som kompositör av barnmusik, inte minst sångerna till filmer och TV-serier baserade på Astrid Lindgrens böcker. Georg Riedel spelade med bland andra Jan Johansson, Arne Domnérus, Lars Gullin, Jan Allan, Radiobandet, Monica Zetterlund, Gunnar Svensson, Egil Johansen och Rune Gustafsson.
Riedel's profile as a composer derives almost exclusively from writing music for Astrid Lindgren movies, including the main theme from the Emil i Lönneberga ("Emil of Maple Hills") movies. [1] He also composed the music for several films by Arne Mattsson in the 1960s as well as for film adaptions of novels by Stig Dagerman .
Mar 12, 2024 · As Erik Kjellberg details in his Jan Johansson: A Visionary Swedish Musician, Riedel continued to work with Johansson in a stimulating range of contexts, before the pianist’s all too early death in a road accident in November 1968.
Jan Johansson (16 September 1931 – 9 November 1968) was a Swedish jazz pianist. His album Jazz på svenska (Jazz in Swedish) is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden; it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and has been streamed more than 50 million times on Spotify.
Georg Riedel - Swedish Music Hall of Fame. Invald 2020. Astrid Lindgrens ”Idas sommarvisa”, Jan Johanssons ”Visa från Utanmyra”, Monica Zetterlund i ”Sakta vi gå genom stan”, ”Danny’s Dream” av Lars Gullin.
Georg Riedel was first known to a larger audience through his collaboration with pianist Jan Johansson and the album Jazz på svenska (”Jazz in Swedish”). Furthermore, he has in his work with author Astrid Lindgren composed a number of songs that are loved by generations of Swedes.
