Georg Riedel composed music for Astrid Lindgren films such as “Pippi Longstocking’ He is considered one of the most famous children's song composers in Sweden. His greatest success was the song “Idas Sommarvisa,” which comes from the stories of Michel and Ida from Lönneberga.
He fell asleep surrounded by his family on Sunday evening after a long illness, his relatives said on Monday. He was born in 1934 in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia.