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Stockholm, Sweden
Known for
- The Devil's Instrument1965
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1935
- Active to
- 2017
Discography
- Was?? / Proteinimperialism1970
- What??1997
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Folke Rabe (Stockholm, Sweden, 28 October 1935 - 25 September 2017) was a Swedish composer. 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). According to Robert Erickson, What?? contains "no obvious discrete changes" and "no sharply defined s
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Rabe
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Occupation
- musicologist
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trombone
- Official website
- www.folkerabe.se
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- date of birth
- 1935-10-28
- date of death
- 2017-09-25
- place of burial
- Norra begravningsplatsen
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