Carl Jularbo, well known as Calle Jularbo and born as Karl Karlsson (6 June 1893 - 13 February 1966) was the most famous Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

ist of his time. He had a very distinct personal style, that has played a significant part in forming the Swedish accordion tradition. He was extremely productive, recording 1577 tunes and he won 158 accordion competitions. He maintained a large repertoire without being able to read music. His best known tune is Livet i Finnskogarna (roughly "Life in the Finn forests"), recorded in 1915.

Jularbo is the name of his birthplace, which he later adopted as his name.

External links

• http://www.avesta.se/Kultur--Fritid/Museum/Carl-Jularbo-Museum/Carl-Jularbo-museum-in-english/ (The Carl Jularbo Museum - English Web Site)