Martin Bagge

Martin Bagge (born 29 November 1958) is a Swedish musician and composer known for his interpretations of Carl Michael Bellman's songs.

As a choral composer, he has attracted attention for his settings of poems by Federico García Lorca and Ebba Lindqvist.

His recordings include many of Carl Michael Bellman's 1790 Fredman's Epistles and 1791 Fredman's Songs, such as "Glimmande nymf", "Ack, du min moder", "Vila vid denna källa", and "Fjäriln vingad syns på Haga".

His approach, in the opinion of Ingrid Strömdahl, writing in Svenska Dagbladet, is respectful of the poetry and of Bellman's sharp observation of human nature, the environment, and unusual ways of being; he interprets the work "with heart and soul".

[2] Together with the literary scholar David Anthin, he has during the summers of 2015, 2017-2019 carried out four sailing trips on the cruiser Flory on Sweden's west coast, and performed songs by Evert Taube on beach trips, and as lunchtime theatre in Gothenburg, in a program called "Cruising with Taube".