Love Almqvist
Marie Louise
Ludwig Carl Wilhelm
Min mors minne
Afsked till min Fader
Vendelas morka lockar
Richard Furumo
Nyniannes rost
Det doftar i Skogen
Ifran Leonard
Hjertats Bon
Gurrhanas Dans
En Pingstmorgon
Zingari-Fest
La Caraffa
Niakuns Polska
Nicoline
Cecilias Fraga

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866) is one of the few yet current Swedish authors prior to Strindberg. Most of his writings he collected in the universal work Törnrosens Bok (The Book of the Thorn-rose), in which he wanted to unite 'picture, music and script together, and mould into a single brand' and thus create a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk. He was also strictly speaking 'only' a talented amateur, although he often claimed that deep down he was primarily a musical person. Already during or shortly after his illustrious Värmland adventure 1823-24 when he left Stockholm for living an idealized peasant life in the small village Köla - he produced two large note booklets, one for voices and one for keyboard. Both wear the title 'Free Musical Fantasies, and they associate directly to his literary counterpart, originally called Free Fantasies, which, considered as an entity, by Mr Hugo Löwenstierna sometimes called Törnrosens Bok [The Book of the Thorn-rose]'.

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Recording: Musikmuseer 25th May 1982 [track 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13], 28th December 1982 [track 16]. Swedish Radio, studio 2, 25th may 1985 [track 1, 4, 5, 7, 11]. Swedish Radio, studio 3, 17th June 1993 [track 3, 14, 15, 17, 18].