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Herbert Blomstedt
Died November 4, 2026
Herbert Blomstedt died on November 4, 2026. No official cause of death has been released. Readers are working out what happened on this page.
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt was a Swedish and American conductor. Over the course of his career for around 70 years, he served as the principal conductor of orchestras first in Scandinavia, where his first post was from 1954 with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, followed by tenures with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. When he became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1975, he was recognised internationally, and later led the San Francisco Symphony, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He conducted his last concert in May 2026, at age 98.
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Wikipedia's entry on the day: Herbert Blomstedt, 99, Swedish-American conductor (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Symphony).
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