Carl Michael Bellman
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Carl Michael Bellman
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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. Bellman is best known
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Swedish poet, songwriter and composer (1740–1795)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Michael_Bellman
date created:
2002-09-22T14:25:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T03:14:34Z
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