Fader Bergström
Song by the 18th century Swedish bard Carl Michael Bellman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fader Bergström, stäm upp och klinga (Father Bergström, start playing and sounding) is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's songs, from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 63. The melody is based on a minuet by Carl Envallsson [sv]. Bergström was a musician, and the song celebrates dancing and drinking late into the evening. The song, written in 1773, was revised heavily to make it suitable for publication. The initial version, naming Movitz not Bergström as the musician, was an attack on an over-zealous priest who had caused Bellman to be summonsed for an earlier poem that had joked about salvation. The song has been recorded by Bellman interpreters including Fred Åkerström, Fredrik Berg, and Rolf Leanderson.
"Fader Bergström" | |
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Art song | |
English | Fader Bergström |
Written | September 1773 |
Text | poem by Carl Michael Bellman |
Language | Swedish |
Melody | Carl Envallsson [sv]'s Bobis bröllop |
Composed | 1788 |
Published | 1790 in Fredman's Epistles |
Scoring | voice and cittern |