Erling Blöndal BengtssonErling Blöndal Bengtsson (8 March 1932 – 6 June 2013) was a Danish cellist.[1]
Bengtsson was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and was conferred the title Chevalier du Violoncelle by Indiana University in 1993. Bengtsson made most of his phonograph and CD recordings with the Danish label Danacord. In November 2006, Danacord released the DVD The Cello and I, which presented a comprehensive portrait of Bengtsson's career on the seventieth anniversary of his debut. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, aged 81. Bengtsson was the subject of a sculpture (The Musician) in 1970 by the Icelandic sculptor Ólöf Pálsdóttir, of him playing the cello.[2] In 2014 this was moved to a location in the water, next to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra's new home of the Harpa in Reykjavík.[3] References
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