page_title: Stolta Stad!
section_title: Epistle
hierarchical_section_title: Stolta Stad! / Epistle
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheet music of Carl Michael Bellman's Stolta Stad, Fredman's Epistles no. 33, 1790
context_page_description: Stolta stad!, is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's best-known and best-loved works, from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 33. It combines spoken sections and song. It has been described as Swedish literature's most congenial portrait of its capital city.
  The epistle is subtitled "1:o Om Fader Movitz's öfverfart til Djurgården, och 2:o om den dygdiga Susanna.".
context_section_description: The Epistle begins with a long spoken section, imitative of a crowded boat with people playing cards and others trying to move about; parts are in German and French. 
  The song has four verses, with two further spoken sections. Each verse has twelve lines, with the rhyming pattern AABBCCDDDEEE; of these, the lines AA both begin with Corno, horn, and all the lines CDD and EEE end with Corno; the first verse mentions Movitz, a musician, and one of the stock characters in Fredman's Epistles. The song is in  time in the key of A major, and is marked Marche. The Epistle is dated 16 October 1771. Three of the spoken sections end with a mention that a "nymph", Susanna, is to sing; only this and No. 67 (Fader Movitz, bror) among the epistles call for a woman's voice, but the identify of "Susanna" is not known. The melody was said by Nils Afzelius to come from the aria "Regardez ces traits" from Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's opera Le cadi dupé, but this is disputed by the musicologist James Massengale.
caption: Sheet music, 1790, for the first verse. This is preceded by a spoken section.
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