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Evert Taube |
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12th March 1890 |
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Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden |
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Composer |
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Evert Axel Taube [▶] (March 12, 1890-January 31, 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He was born in Gothenburg, Västergötland as the son of Carl Gunnar Taube and Julia Sofia Jacobsdotter. In 1925 he married Astri Linnéa Mathilda Bergman. He died in Stockholm.
On his 60th birthday in 1950, Taube received the Bellman Award from the Swedish Academy and in 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University. He was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1970.
Children
- Per-Evert (born 1926)
- Ellinor (1930 - 1998)
- Sven-Bertil Taube (born 1934)
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