C. M. Bellman

C. M. Bellman
Portrait by Per Krafft, 1779
Short Name: C. M. Bellman
Full Name: Bellman, C. M. (Carl Michael), 1740-1795
Birth Year: 1740
Death Year: 1795

Carl Michael Bellman, born at Stockholm, Feb 4, 1740, died there Feb. 11, 1795. The great Swedish poet deserves a place also in the history of Swedish music, having set to music his ingenious descriptions of popular life, embodied in the partly idyllic, partly burlesque, cycles: The Epistles of Fredman, The Songs of Fredman, and The Acts of the Bacchanalian Chapter.

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)
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Carl Michael Bellman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈmîːkaɛl ˈbɛ̌lːman]; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) 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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