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3 unusual facts about Erling Blöndal Bengtsson


Erling Blöndal Bengtsson

He returned to America in 1990 and taught at the University of Michigan School of Music until his retirement from academia in 2006.

He was admitted at the age of sixteen to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, who engaged him as a teaching assistant in 1949.

He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and was conferred the title "Chevalier du Violoncelle" by Indiana University in 1993.



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