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Carl Michael Bellman

Swedish composer and singer Carl Michael Bellman.<br>Also examples of his music inside the slideshow (youtube video)

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Carl Michael Bellman

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  1. Poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman in shirtsleeves of the Swedish court dress, playing the Cittern.

  2. 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

  3. Bellman is best known for two collections of poems set to music, Fredman's songs (Fredmans sånger) and Fredman's epistles (Fredmans epistlar). Each consists of about 70 songs. The general theme is drinking, but the songs "most ingeniously" combine words and music to express feelings and moods ranging from humorous to elegiac, romantic to satirical.

  4. Bellman's patrons included King Gustav III of Sweden, who called him a master improviser. Bellman's songs continue to be performed and recorded by musicians from Scandinavia and in other languages, including English, French, German, Italian and Russian. Several of his songs including Gubben Noak and Fjäriln vingad are known by heart by many Swedes. His legacy further includes a museum in Stockholm and a society that fosters interest in him and his work.

  5. Map of Bellman's Stockholm, with places of interest for his Fredman's Epistles overlaid on map from William Coxe's Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden..., 1784. – 1 Haga park – 2 Brunnsviken – 3 Forsta Torpet (Ep. 80) – 4 Kungsholmen – 5 Hessingen (Ep. 48) – 6 Lake Mälaren (Ep. 48) – 7 Södermalm – 8 Urvädersgränd – 9 Lokatten (Lynx Tavern) (Ep. 11) – 10 Yxsmedsgränd in Gamla stan (Ep. 28) – 11 Skeppsholm Quay – 12 Årsta Castle – 13 Djurgården Park – 14 Gröna Lund pleasure gardens – 15 Bellman's birthplace

  6. Fjäril'n vingad syns på Haga (The butterfly wingèd is seen in Haga) is one of the most popular of Carl Michael Bellman's collection of songs called Fredmans sånger, published in 1791, where it is No. 64. Many Swedes know the song by heart.

  7. Music of Carl Michael Bellman's song "Fjäril'n vingad syns på Haga" from Fredman's Songs, 1791

  8. Fjäril'n vingad describes King Gustav III's Haga Park

  9. Frontispiece to Carl Michael Bellman's Fredmans epistlar, 1790, drawn by Johan Tobias Sergel and engraved by Johan Fredrik Martin.

  10. Fredmans epistlar (English: Fredman's Epistles or Epistles of Fredman) is a collection of 82 poems set to music by Carl Michael Bellman, a major figure in Swedish 18th century song. Though first published in 1790, it was created over a period of twenty years from 1768 onwards. A companion volume, Fredmans sånger (Fredman's Songs) was published the following year.

  11. The Epistles vary widely in style and effect, from Rococo-themed pastorale with a cast of gods and demigods from classical antiquity to laments for the effects of Brännvin-drinking, tavern-scenes, and apparent improvisations. The lyrics, based on the lives of Bellman's contemporaries in Gustavian-age Sweden, describe a gallery of fictional and semi-fictional characters and events taking place in Stockholm.

  12. Bellman's artistry in the songs of Fredman's Epistles has been compared with William Hogarth's work as a painter,[3] as here in Gin Lane, 1751.

  13. Detail of watercolour by Johan Fredrik Martin of a scene reminiscent of Ulla Winblad's journey back from Lake Mälaren to Stockholm in Epistle No. 48, Solen glimmar blank och trind

  14. François Boucher's 1740 painting Triumph of Venus, the model for the humorously Rococo Epistle 25, "Blåsen nu alla (All blow now!)"

  15. An 1825 broadside with Fredman's Epistle No. 30: Drick ur ditt glas, se Döden på dig väntar (In Paul Britten Austin's translation "Drain off thy glass, see death upon thee waiting")

  16. 19th century illustration for "Ulla Winblad kära syster. Du är eldig, qvick och yster...". Fredman's Epistle No. 3, by Carl Wahlbom (1810– 1858)

  17. Epistles or Fredman's Songs have been placed on YouTube. Among the best known of Fredman's Epistles are: No. 23, Ach du min Moder!, described as "the to-be-or-not-to-be of Swedish literature"; No. 28, I går såg jag ditt barn, min Fröja, No. 33, Stolta Stad!, No. 35, Bröderna fara väl vilse ibland; No. 40, Ge rum i Bröllops-gåln din hund!, "one of the wildest weddings in Swedish literature";[9] No. 48, Solen glimmar blank och trind; No. 63, Fader Bergström; No. 71, Ulla! min Ulla! säj får jag dig bjuda; No. 72, Glimmande nymf; No. 80, Liksom en Herdinna, högtids klädd; No. 81, Märk hur vår skugga; and No. 82, the last, Hvila vid denna källa.

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