Folke Rabe (28 October 1935 – 25 September 2017[1]) was a Swedish composer.
He was born in Stockholm and studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where his teachers included Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Ingvar Lidholm, György Ligeti and others.
[2] He died in Stockholm, aged 81.
His works include the electronic drone pieces What??
(1968), Basta for solo trombone (1982), Escalations for brass quintet (1988), Concerto for trombone: "All the Lonely People" (1989) featuring quotes from The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby", and With Love No.