Georg Riedel is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

 player and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

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The most famous recording featuring Riedel is probably Jan Johansson's Jazz på svenska

Jazz på svenska

Jazz på svenska is an album by the Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson. It was issued in 1964 and consists of jazz arrangements of Swedish folk songs. All arrangements are very sparse, consisting only of Johansson's piano play and Georg Riedel's bass...

("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 Allan

Jan Bertil Allan is a Swedish jazz trumpeter and composer. He is a winner of the Grammis awards, the Swedish equivalent to the Grammys. He has also composed for several films such as The Adventures of Picasso ....

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Riedel's fame as a composer derives almost exclusively from writing music for Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...

 movies, including the main theme from the Emil i Lönneberga

Emil of Maple Hills

Emil of Lönneberga is a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren, covering twelve books written from 1963 to 1997. Emil, the title character, is a prankster who lives on a farm in the district of Lönneberga in Småland, Sweden. The books have been published in 44 languages...

("Emil of Maple Hills") movies. He is also notable for having composed the music for several films by Arne Mattsson

Arne Mattsson

Arne Mattsson was a Swedish film director, born in Uppsala.His early movies were mostly comedies. His biggest success was Hon dansade en sommar , which earned him the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and a nomination for the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952...

 in the 60s

1960s

The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe...

 as well as for film adaptions of novels by Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman was a Swedish author and journalist.Stig Dagerman was one of the most prominent Swedish authors during the 1940s...

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Selected film music

• 491
  491 (film)
  491 is a 1964 Swedish black-and-white drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman, based on a novel by Lars Görling. The story is about a group of youth criminals who are chosen to participate in a social experiment, where they are assigned to live together in an apartment while being supervised by two...
  
  (1964)
• Pippi Longstocking (1969) (with Jan Johansson)
• Emil i Lönneberga
  Emil i Lönneberga (film)
  Emil i Lönneberga is a 1971 Swedish film, the first of three films based on the Emil i Lönneberga books written by Astrid Lindgren.-Cast:*Jan Ohlsson as Emil Svensson*Lena Wisborg as Ida Svensson*Allan Edwall as Anton Svensson...
  
  (1971)
• Nya hyss av Emil i Lönneberga
  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:*Jan Ohlsson as Emil Svensson*Lena Wisborg as Ida Svensson*Allan Edwall as Anton Svensson*Emy Storm as Alma Svensson...
  
  (1972)
• Emil och griseknoen
  Emil och griseknoen
  Emil och griseknoen is a 1973 Swedish film, the third of three films based on the Emil i Lönneberga books written by Astrid Lindgren.-Cast:*Jan Ohlsson as Emil Svensson*Lena Wisborg as Ida Svensson*Allan Edwall as Anton Svensson*Emy Storm as Alma Svensson...
  
  (1973)
• Karlsson on the Roof (1974)
• The Children of Noisy Village (1986)
• More About the Children of Noisy Village
  More About the Children of Noisy Village
  More About the Children of Noisy Village is a 1987 Swedish film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the books about The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren.It is a sequel to The Children of Noisy Village which premiered the year before...
  
  (1987)
• Ved vejen (1988)
• Trust Me
  Trust Me (2010 film)
  Trust Me is a 2010 Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Johan Kling, starring an ensemble cast including Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård and Susanne Thorson...
  
  (2010)

External links

• Georg Riedel at the Swedish Film Database