
Per Henrik Wallin (July 17, 1946 – June 15, 2005) was a
Swedish
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jazz pianist
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and
composer
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. He was acclaimed in Continental Europe, but relatively obscure in the United States.
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/ref> He received the Swedish variant of the Golden Django
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two years before his death.
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1946 births
2005 deaths
Swedish jazz pianists
Swedish composers
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20th-century Swedish pianists
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