{"id":2303,"date":"2022-10-14T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=2303"},"modified":"2022-10-14T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:58:47","slug":"polska-efter-vilhelm-gelotte","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/polska-efter-vilhelm-gelotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Polska efter Vilhelm Gelotte"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0\u00a0Vilhelm Gelotte<\/strong>, with his French-sounding last name, was descended from a Walloon family that immigrated in the 1700’s to Sweden from Belgium.\u00a0 Walloons were brought into Uppland to work the iron foundries beginning in the 1600’s, and part of their cultural tradition was playing the nyckelharpa.<\/p>

Wilhelm himself was born in 1859 in \u00c4lvkarle\u00f6 in Uppland.\u00a0 He grew up in a musical environment, and was already playing at weddings at age 10.\u00a0 In 1934 the Uppland volume of Svenska L\u00e5tar<\/strong> was published, with 21 of his tunes presented.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This polska is one that he composed himself, often called “Gelotte’s G-minor Polska”.\u00a0 \u00a0It is considered one of the finest pieces he played, and is often performed by individuals and groups wanting to demonstrate a stately and beautiful tune.<\/p>

Here<\/span><\/a> is a YouTube video of a Danish trio playing Gelotte’s polska for dancing.<\/p>

To the left is a photo of the old bridge across the river Dal\u00e4lven in the area where Vilhelm Gelotte lived.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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To the left is a YouTube video of me playing the tune.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0Vilhelm Gelotte, with his French-sounding last name, was descended from a Walloon family that immigrated in the 1700’s to Sweden from Belgium.\u00a0 Walloons were brought into Uppland to work the iron foundries beginning in the 1600’s, and part of their cultural tradition was playing the nyckelharpa. Wilhelm himself was born in 1859 in \u00c4lvkarle\u00f6 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}