Erling Blöndal Bengtsson

Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (8 March 1932 – 6 June 2013) was a Danish cellist.

Born in Copenhagen, Bengtsson gave his first public performance there in 1936, when he was four years old. He was admitted at the age of sixteen to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, who engaged him as a teaching assistant in 1949. From 1950 to 1953, Bengtsson taught hi… More