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Ingvar Wixell

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Karl Gustaf Ingvar Wixell, (May 7, 1931October 8, 2011) was a Swedish baritone who had an active international career in operas and concerts from 1955 to 2003. [1]

90 relations: Absent Friend, Aida, Ariadne auf Naxos, August Söderman, Baritone, Carmen, Colin Davis, Dagens Nyheter, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Don Giovanni, Edinburgh International Festival, Edita Gruberová, En gång i Stockholm, Eugene Onegin (opera), Eurovision Song Contest 1965, Falstaff (opera), Gaetano Donizetti, Gävle, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gillian Knight, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Patanè, Giuseppe Verdi, Glyndebourne, Il tabarro, Il trovatore, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Jessye Norman, Joan Sutherland, John Pritchard (conductor), José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, L'elisir d'amore, La bohème, La traviata, Lamberto Gardelli, Lars-Erik Larsson, Lill Lindfors, Lohengrin (opera), Lorin Maazel, Luciano Pavarotti, Lucrezia Borgia (opera), Luleå, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Madama Butterfly, Malmö, Malmö Opera, Marilyn Horne, Melodifestivalen, ..., Metropolitan Opera, Mirella Freni, Monica Zetterlund, Montserrat Caballé, Naples, Nygammal vals, Opera, Pagliacci, Plácido Domingo, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Raina Kabaivanska, Renata Scotto, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Bonynge, Richard Strauss, Rigoletto, Royal Opera House, Royal Swedish Opera, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Simon Boccanegra, Singing, Stig Westerberg, Stockholm, Svante Thuresson, Sweden, Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, The New York Times, The Royal Opera, Tosca, Ture Rangström, Un ballo in maschera, Un giorno di regno, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1955 in music, 2003 in music. Expand index (40 more) »

Absent Friend

"Absent Friend" (original Swedish title: "Annorstädes vals" - "Elsewhere Waltz") was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, performed in English by opera singer Ingvar Wixell.

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Aida

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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August Söderman

(Johan) August Söderman (17 July 1832 in Stockholm – 10 February 1876 in Stockholm) has traditionally been seen as the pre-eminent Swedish composer of the Romantic generation, known especially for his lieder and choral works, based on folk material, and for his theatre music, such as the incidental music to Ludvig Josephson's Marsk Stigs döttrar ("Marshal Stig's Daughter"), 1866, or his Svenskt festspel ("Swedish Festival Music").

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter (lit. "the day's news"), abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden.

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Deutsche Oper Berlin

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual festival of performing arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks in August.

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Edita Gruberová

Edita Gruberová (born 23 December 1946), is a Slovak coloratura soprano.

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En gång i Stockholm

"En gång i Stockholm" ("Once Upon a Time in Stockholm") was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, performed in Swedish by one of Scandinavia's leading jazz singers, Monica Zetterlund (20 September 1937 – 12 May 2005).

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Eugene Onegin (opera)

Eugene Onegin (italic, Yevgény Onégin), Op.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1965

The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the tenth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest.

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Falstaff (opera)

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.

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Gävle

Gävle is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Gillian Knight

Gillian Knight (born 1 November 1934) is an English singer and actress, known for her performances in the contralto roles of the Savoy operas.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces.

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Giuseppe Patanè

Giuseppe Patanè (1 January 1932 – 29 May 1989) was an Italian opera conductor.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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Il tabarro

Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's play La houppelande.

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Il trovatore

(Italian for "The Troubadour") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

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Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (19 February 1932 – 11 August 1988) was a French opera director.

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Jessye Norman

Jessye Mae Norman (born September 15, 1945) is an American opera singer and recitalist.

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Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

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John Pritchard (conductor)

Sir John Michael Pritchard, CBE (5 February 19215 December 1989) was an English conductor.

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José Carreras

José Carreras, is the stage name of Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (born 5 December 1946), a tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.

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Katia Ricciarelli

Katia Ricciarelli (born 16 January, 1946) is an Italian soprano.

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L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto (act).

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman)Meadows, p. 582 is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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Lamberto Gardelli

Lamberto Gardelli (8 November 191517 July 1998) was a Swedish conductor of Italian birth,Lamberto Gardelli.

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Lars-Erik Larsson

Lars-Erik Larsson (15 May 190827 December 1986) was a Swedish composer.

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Lill Lindfors

Maj Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors, born 12 May 1940 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Swedish singer who has performed in Scandinavia since the 1960s.

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Lohengrin (opera)

Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

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Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel (March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer.

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Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.

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Lucrezia Borgia (opera)

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Luleå

Luleå (Westrobothnian: Lul, Leul, or Leol; Luleju) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Malmö

Malmö (Malmø) is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania.

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Malmö Opera

Malmö Opera (Swedish: Malmö opera) is an opera house in Malmö, Sweden.

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Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

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Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen (literally "The Melody Festival") is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR).

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Mirella Freni

Mirella Freni (born Mirella Fregni on 27 February 1935) is an Italian soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

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Monica Zetterlund

Monica Zetterlund (born Eva Monica Nilsson; 20 September 1937 – 12 May 2005) was a Swedish singer and actress.

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Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé (born 12 April 1933) is a Spanish operatic soprano.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.

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Nygammal vals

"Nygammal vals" ("New, yet familiar, waltz") was the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Pagliacci

Pagliacci (literal translation, Clowns)The title is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English with a definite article as I pagliacci.

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Plácido Domingo

José Plácido Domingo Embil, (born 21 January 1941), known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.

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Raina Kabaivanska

Raina Kabaivanska (Райна Кабаиванска) (December 15, 1934) is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lirico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles.

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Renata Scotto

Renata Scotto (born 24 February 1934) is an Italian soprano and opera director.

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Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born 20 February 1953) is an Italian conductor.

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Richard Bonynge

Richard Alan Bonynge (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera (Kungliga Operan) is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet.

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.

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Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play El trovador had been the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, Il trovatore.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Stig Westerberg

Stig Evald Börje Westerberg (26 November 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a Swedish conductor and pianist, whose career was based mostly in his home country.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Svante Thuresson

Svante Thuresson (born 7 February 1937 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest

Sweden has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 58 times since making its debut in 1958, missing only three contests since then (1964, 1970 and 1976).

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The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Royal Opera

The Royal Opera is a company based in central London, resident at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Ture Rangström

Anders Johan Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions.

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Un ballo in maschera

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Un giorno di regno

Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao (A One-Day Reign, or The Pretend Stanislaus, but often translated into English as King for a Day) is an operatic melodramma giocoso in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto written in 1818 by Felice Romani.

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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (27 February 1867, Ullånger, Ångermanland – 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic.

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Wilhelm Stenhammar

Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927) was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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1955 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1955.

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2003 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2003.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Wixell

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