Tjenare Mollberg, hur är det fatt?
Song by the 18th century Swedish bard Carl Michael Bellman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tjenare Mollberg, hur är det fatt? (Dear Mollberg, what happened?) is No. 45 in the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's 1790 song collection, Fredman's Epistles. The epistle is subtitled "Till fader Mollberg rörande hans harpa, och tillika et slags ad notitiam at Mollberg led oskyldigt på Krogen Rostock" (To father Mollberg concerning his harp, and further a sort of ad notitiam that Mollberg innocently suffered at the Rostock tavern); the song is sometimes known under this name. It describes a fight in a tavern that starts when Mollberg innocently plays a Polska on his harp, leading his audience to assume it was propaganda for Poland.
"Tjenare Mollberg, hur är det fatt?" | |
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Art song | |
English | Dear Mollberg, what happened? |
Written | between 1773 and 1778 |
Text | poem by Carl Michael Bellman |
Language | Swedish |
Melody | from Silvain |
Composed | 1770 |
Published | 1790 in Fredman's Epistles |
Scoring | voice and cittern |
Scholars have noted that the epistle is the clearest exception to the rule that Bellman avoided international politics. The Rostock tavern's location has been debated; the evidence favours a city centre site in Stockholm's Gamla stan. The sound of Mollberg's harp is indicated in the song with onomatopoeic phrases.