| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Bellman, Carl Michael |
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(m ´kä l bl´män) (KEY) , 1740–95, Swedish poet; protégé of Gustavus III. His early poetry was chiefly religious. His dithyrambic odes in Fredmans Epistlar (1790) and Fredmans Sånger (1791) include bacchanals, pastorals, and comic pieces. A fine performer of his own verse, Bellman sometimes wrote music for it, but more often he borrowed French melodies and music from contemporary plays. | 1 | | See J. Massengale, The Musical-Poetic Method of C. M. Bellman (1979). | 2 |
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