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Carl Michael Bellman

1740 - 1795

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Carl Michael Bellman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈmîːkaɛl ˈbɛ̌lːman] ; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) 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 for two collections of poems set to music, Fredman's epistles (Fredmans epistlar) and Fredman's songs (Fredmans sånger). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Michael Bellman is the 312th most popular musician (down from 302nd in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 212th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Musician.

Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish poet who is most famous for his poem "Fredmans Epistles" which was published in 1790.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Carl Michael Bellman ranks 312 out of 3,175. Before him are Grigory Sokolov, Fred Durst, Will.i.am, Bob Klose, Per Gessle, and John Mayall. After him are Roger Daltrey, Heinrich Neuhaus, Grover Washington Jr., Nick Cave, Mick Jones, and Ike Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Carl Michael Bellman ranks 9. Before him are Isabelle de Charrière, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, and Johann van Beethoven. After him are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, John Sullivan, Giambattista Bodoni, and John Latham. Among people deceased in 1795, Carl Michael Bellman ranks 11. Before him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Georg Benda, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart. After him are Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Pieter Boddaert, Samuel Wallis, Josiah Wedgwood, John Sullivan, and Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Michael Bellman ranks 206 out of 1,879. Before him are Gunilla Bielke (1568), Per Gessle (1959), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846), Joe Hill (1879), and Michael Nyqvist (1960). After him are Oskar Backlund (1846), Inge the Younger (1100), Birger, King of Sweden (1280), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Göran Persson (1949), and Freddie Ljungberg (1977).

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Among MUSICIANS In Sweden

Among musicians born in Sweden, Carl Michael Bellman ranks 6. Before him are Benny Andersson (1946), Björn Ulvaeus (1945), Avicii (1989), Franz Berwald (1796), and Per Gessle (1959). After him are Stig Anderson (1931), Yngwie Malmsteen (1963), Mikkey Dee (1963), Ludwig Göransson (1984), Eric Ericson (1918), and Åse Kleveland (1949).

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