Georg Riedel (born 8 January 1934) is a

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player and

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. Riedel migrated to Sweden at the age of four and attended school in

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, including the

Adolf Fredrik's Music School Adolf Fredrik's Music School ( sv, Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser) is a general municipal junior high school ( sv, grundskola) in Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on choral music, and highly competitive admission based on audition in singing and mu ...

. The best known recording featuring Riedel is probably Jan Johansson's '' Jazz på svenska'' ("Jazz in Swedish"), a minimalist-jazz compilation of folk songs recorded in 1962–1963, though Riedel has recorded with other leading Swedish musicians including trumpeter

Jan Allan Jan Bertil Allan (born 7 November 1934) is a Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer. He is the winner of a Grammis Award, the Swedish equivalent of the Grammys. He has also composed for several films such as ''The Adventures of Picasso'' (1978), '' ...

and Arne Domnérus. Riedel's profile as a composer derives almost exclusively from writing music for

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movies, including the main theme from the ''

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'' ("Emil of Maple Hills") movies. He also composed the music for several films by

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in the 1960s as well as for film adaptions of novels by

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. Riedel also played on ''

Jazz at the Pawnshop Jazz at the Pawnshop is a multi-session recording made by Gert Palmcrantz on December 6–7, 1976, at Jazzpuben Stampen (Pawnshop) in Stockholm, Sweden. A pawnshop had operated on the site prior to the jazz club. Proprius Records founder Jacob ...

'' in 1977.

Early life

Riedel was born in

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, to a

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father and a

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mother. In 1938, when Riedel was four years old, the family fled to Sweden following the German annexation of the Sudetenland.

Selected film music

* '' 491'' (1964) * ''

Morianna ''Morianna'' (Swedish: ''Morianerna'') is a 1965 Swedish thriller film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Anders Henrikson, Eva Dahlbeck and Elsa Prawitz.Qvist & Von Bagh p.61 The film's sets were designed by the art director Per-Olav Sivert ...

'' (1965) * ''

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'' (1965) * ''

Woman of Darkness ''Woman of Darkness'' or ''The Yngsjö Murder'' (Swedish: ''Yngsjömordet'') is a 1966 Swedish historical crime film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Gunnel Lindblom, Christina Schollin and Gösta Ekman. It was shot at the Råsunda Studio ...

'' (1966) * ''

Pippi Longstocking Pippi Longstocking ( sv, Pippi Långstrump) is the fictional main character in an eponymous series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, who asked her mother for a get-well story wh ...

'' (1969) (with Jan Johansson) * ''

'' (1971) * ''

Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga ''Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga'' is a 1972 Swedish film, the second of three films about the Emil i Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren. Cast External links * * Swedish children's films 1970s Swedish-language films 1972 films Film ...

'' (1972) * ''

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'' (1973) * '' Karlsson on the Roof'' (1974) * ''

The Children of Noisy Village Books by Astrid Lindgren featuring the Six Bullerby Children (in the US released as ''The Children of Noisy Village''): * ''All About the Bullerby Children'' * ''Cherry Time at Bullerby'' * ''Six Bullerby Children'' * ''Springtime at Bullerby'' ...

'' (1986) * ''

More About the Children of Noisy Village ''More About the Children of Noisy Village'' ( sv, Mer om oss barn i Bullerbyn) is a Swedish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 5 September 1987, directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the books about The Six Bullerby Children by Astr ...

'' (1987) * '' Ved vejen'' (1988) * '' Trust Me'' (2010)

References

External links

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Georg Riedel
at the Swedish Film Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Riedel, Georg 1934 births Living people Litteris et Artibus recipients Swedish jazz musicians Gemini Records artists Radiojazzgruppen members Czechoslovak emigrants to Sweden Czechoslovak Jews Czechoslovak refugees Swedish Jews Musicians from Karlovy Vary Musicians from Stockholm Swedish people of Czech-Jewish descent Swedish people of German descent