Rabe, Folke, 1935-2017

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Name (Latin)
Rabe, Folke, 1935-2017
Other forms of name
Rabe, Folke, 1935-
Date of birth
1935-10-28
Date of death
2017-09-25
Associated country
Sweden
Occupation
Composers
Trombonists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 19866631
Wikidata: Q515076
Library of congress: n 88602066
Sources of Information
  • Grove music online, December 16, 2013(Rabe, Folke (Alvar Harald Reinhold); born October 28, 1935, Stockholm; Swedish composer and trombonist; in 1963 co-founded the Kulturkvartetten (from 1983 the Nya Kulturkvartetten), a group of four trombonists who have appeared throughout Europe in performances exclusively of their own compositions, many of them theatrical)
  • Lindberg, C. The burlesque trombone [SR] p1986:label (Rabe) container (Rabe, Folke) booklet (b. 1935)
  • Svensk Musik web page, May 1, 2018(Folke Rabe; died in Stockholm September 25, 2017)

Wikipedia description:

Folke Rabe (28 October 1935 – 25 September 2017) was a Swedish composer. He was born in Stockholm and studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where his teachers included Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Ingvar Lidholm, György Ligeti and others. He died in Stockholm, aged 81. His works include the electronic drone pieces What?? (also translated as "Was??") (1968), Basta for solo trombone (1982), Escalations for brass quintet (1988), Concerto for trombone: "All the Lonely People" (1989) featuring quotes from The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", and With Love No. 1 and 2 for piano (1988). A more extensive list is given below.

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