Carl Michael Bellman
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Carl Michael Bellman 🇸🇪

Carl Michael Bellman (Known as "Anacreon of the North")
National Bard of Sweden, Master Poet, Songwriter, Citter Player
Born 1740-02-04 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
Passed Away 1795-02-11 Stockholm, Sweden
Lifespan 55 years old
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"Drink of the cup, dear brother, while the fiddle plays; Death stands waiting in the shadows, but today we live!"

Archival Overview

Supreme master of Swedish musical poetry known as the 'Anacreon of the North', whose 18th-century masterpieces 'Fredman's Epistles' and 'Fredman's Songs' blend drinking songs with tragic elegance.

Biographical Record

Carl Michael Bellman was born on February 4, 1740, in Södermalm, Stockholm. A virtuoso on the cittern and an inimitable vocal mimic, his bohemian tavern life under King Gustav III inspired a revolutionary literary synthesis.

Bellman created a totally unique poetic universe: setting exquisite, intricate rococo verses to borrowed melodies from French opéra-comique, military marches, and Lutheran hymns. His masterpieces, Fredmans epistlar (1790) and Fredmans sånger (1791), populated Stockholm's taverns with memorable characters—clockmaker Jean Fredman, tavern beauty Ulla Winblad, and drunkard Movitz—oscillating between ecstatic Dionysian revelry and the hovering presence of Death. He remains universally revered as Sweden's supreme musical poet.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Klara Churchyard
Stockholm, Sweden
GPS: 59.3317, 18.0617
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