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Sweden Music

Sweden Music

Musical art manifested itself in Sweden much later and less vigorously than in other European countries; at first it was rather a phenomenon of reflection of foreign art, especially of Italian and German art, than a spontaneous and original product of national artistic sensibility, although this already had considerable traditions in the field of popular art. It is at the beginning of the century. XVII, in fact, that for the first time a Swedish musician of some importance is met:…

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Sweden Early History

Sweden Early History

HISTORY: PREHISTORY Covered for thousands of years by thick ice sheets, the Swedish territory could offer favorable conditions for human settlement only at the end of the Pleistocene. The main testimonies are therefore referable to different Mesolithic facies, some of which are distributed between Sweden and Denmark. Among these we remember the Brommiano, characterized by the so-called pedunculated points of the “Lyngby” type and by axes in reindeer horn; the Maglemosian, widespread mainly in Denmark, with C14 dating between 7600…

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