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10 unusual facts about Carl Michael Bellman


Fred Åkerström

Fred Åkerström was a Swedish folk guitarist and singer particularly noted for his interpretations of Bellman's music, and his own work of the typically Swedish song segment named visa.

Hagaparken

Hagaparken has historically been favoured by Swedish royalty, especially Gustav III who founded it and developed it 1780-1797, and by the famous troubadour Carl Michael Bellman, a contemporary of Gustav III, who is much associated with Haga due to the lyrics of his compositions, poems and his writings.

James Massengale

James Rhea Massengale, is an American musicologist and former professor at UCLA, who among others has specialised in the Swedish poets Carl Michael Bellman and Olof von Dalin.

Lucidor

He is remembered for his burlesque poetry that is seen as foreshadowing that of Johan Runius and, especially, Carl Michael Bellman, and for his dramatic death in a tumultuous brawl at the Fimmelstången tavern in Gamla stan in Stockholm.

Modern Swedish

Bellman was a Stockholm poet of the late 18th century whose poetry represented the drinking habits of the time.

Movits!

The name Movits! alludes to Fader Movitz, a character in the Epistles of Fredman by Swedish 18th-century poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman.

Punsch

A testament to the widespread popularity of punsch or rack (arrack) is the songs of Swedish eighteenth century poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman.

Sjökarteverket

The building replaced a small log house on the site, for long, 1747–1861, known all over town as the tavern Tuppen ("The Rooster") and praised by Carl Michael Bellman in his 67th epistle.

Spring mot Ulla, spring! Cornelis sjunger Bellman

The album contains an unconventional presentation of Carl Michael Bellman songs and was a commercial success for Vreeswijk.

Stockholms nation

The songwriter Carl Michael Bellman was enrolled in Stockholms nation during his brief period as a student in Uppsala (1758–1759).


Anna Charlotta Schröderheim

She was the inspiration for several poets; poems by Crusenstople, Bellman and Carl Gustaf af Leopold was dedicated to her.

Den svenska sångboken

The book includes the most famous Swedish songs from earlier time until present, and the songwriters are among Carl Michael Bellman, Birger Sjöberg, Evert Taube, Lars Forssell, Olle Adolphson, Ulf Lundell, Mikael Wiehe, Lasse Berghagen, Benny Andersson, Eva Dahlgren, Lisa Ekdahl, Lasse Dahlquist and Åsa Jinder.

Elias Martin

It is popularly supposed that the woman boarding the boat is Ulla Winblad, the semi-mythical figure of muse and prostitute in many of Carl Michael Bellman's Epistles of Fredman.

Gustafs skål

"Gustafs skål", literally Toast to Gustav, is a song written by Carl Michael Bellman as a salutation to Gustav III of Sweden, following the coup d'etat of 1772, which made himself an autocrat and ended the parliamentary age of liberty.

Kolmätargränd

The present alley is one of the shortest in the old town, and while an article about it might seem superfluous, it has reached an all but legendary status among a large number of Swedes through the still popular troubadour Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) and his 34th epistle named Till Movitz, när elden var lös i hans kvarter uti Kolmätargränden ("To Movitz, when fire ravaged his block in Kolmätargränden").

Stefan Sundström

Sundström's music often refers to other important Swedish musicians like Evert Taube, Dan Andersson, Bellman, Alice Tegnér, Astrid Lindgren, Ulf Dageby and Cornelis Vreeswijk.