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4 unusual facts about Royal Swedish Academy of Music


Erling Blöndal Bengtsson

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

Lovisa Augusti

Augusti remained in the Opera, and in 1788 she was elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Polar Music Prize

The Polar Music Prize is a Swedish international award founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, best known as the manager of the Swedish band ABBA, with a donation to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Thomas Adès

In 2009, he was the focus of Stockholm Concert Hall's annual Composer Festival and was in 2010 appointed foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.


Signe Hebbe

She opened her own school in 1877, and was from 1883 active at Dramatens elevskola and the Opera school, from 1886–1888 in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in the years around 1900 on the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Sture Nordin

Admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, together with Lasse Petterson and Georg Riedel, Nordin was expelled when it was found out that he was playing jazz.


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