{"id":691,"date":"2021-09-26T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=691"},"modified":"2021-09-26T00:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T00:08:39","slug":"chicagovalsen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/chicagovalsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicagovalsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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There is quite a story behind\u00a0Chicagovalsen<\/strong>.<\/p>

\u00a0 It was composed by the great fiddler,\u00a0Gyris Anders Andersson<\/strong>, from the village of \u00c4lvdalen in the province of Dalarna.\u00a0 He was born in 1822, and died in 1909.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0 In the 1870’s he joined a religious sect and travelled with them to Cincinnati.\u00a0 \u00a0To his dismay, they forbade him from playing his fiddle, so he did not stay long, and went back to Sweden.<\/p>

\u00a0 While in the United States, he visited Chicago, and experienced the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871.\u00a0 \u00a0He was thus inspired to write an exciting waltz that he named after the City.<\/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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\u00a0 It is easy to imagine the fire, the evacuations, and the firefighters in this tune. \u00a0\u00a0Here<\/a> is a recording of three fiddlers from \u00c4lvdalen playing the tune in 1949.\u00a0 \u00a0The first minute is talking about Gyris Anders and the tune, so you can hear it starting at about 1:02.<\/p>

\u00a0 To the left is a photo of Gyris Anders taken when he was probably in his 80’s.<\/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":"

There is quite a story behind\u00a0Chicagovalsen. \u00a0 It was composed by the great fiddler,\u00a0Gyris Anders Andersson, from the village of \u00c4lvdalen in the province of Dalarna.\u00a0 He was born in 1822, and died in 1909.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In the 1870’s he joined a religious sect and travelled with them to Cincinnati.\u00a0 \u00a0To his dismay, they […]<\/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-691","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}