Carl Michael Bellman
Swedish poet, songwriter and composer (1740-1795) · Sweden · Writers · Died at 55
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Something wrong?Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature, to this day.
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Bellman's birthplace, the Stora Daurerska house in Södermalm, Stockholm. Carl Svante Hallbeck, 1861
Bellman by Elias Martin, 18th century
The Stockholm house where Bellman lived from 1770 to 1774
The start of Fredman's Epistle No. 23, "Alas, thou my mother". To a graceful minuet tune, Fredman, lying drunk in the gutter outside the Crawl-in tavern, "a summer night in the year 1768", blames his mother for his conception; but a morning visit to the tavern revives his spirits.![Wash drawing by Pehr Hilleström in a 1792 letter showing Bellman in Swedish dress with Mollberg playing bowls.[14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Mollberg_playing_Bowls.jpg/1280px-Mollberg_playing_Bowls.jpg)
Wash drawing by Pehr Hilleström in a 1792 letter showing Bellman in Swedish dress with Mollberg playing bowls.[14]
François Boucher's 1740 painting Triumph of Venus is the model for Epistle 25, "All blow now!", where Bellman humorously contrasts rococo classical allusions with bawdy remarks.
Start of Fredman's Song 21, "Så lunka vi så småningom" (So we gradually amble). March, 24 time, 1791. The song refers to "Bacchus's tumult"; the gravediggers discuss whether the grave is too deep, taking swigs from a bottle of brännvin.Listen
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Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature, to this day. He has been compared to Shakespeare, Beethoven, Mozart, and Hogarth, but his gift, using elegantly rococo classical references in comic contrast to sordid drinking and prostitution - at once regretted and celebrated in song - is unique.
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