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Elvira Madigan

Hedvig Elvira Madigan Jensen was a Danish ropedancer that lived in the late 19th-century. While performing in Sweden she met a Swedish army officer, Lieutenant Count Sixten Sparre. Sparre and Jensen fell in love but their love was impossible partly due to the fact that Sparre was married and the father of two children, and after keeping their romance secret for three years they ran away together to Denmark in July 1889, where they spent about two weeks. When they ran out of money, they packed a picnic basket, went out in the forest, had a last meal after which Sparre shot Jensen and himself with his service gun. Jensen was 21 years old and Sparre 35 years old.

The story has some resemblance to the Austrian Mayerling drama, where Crown_Prince_Rudolf_of_Austria and his lover took their lives.


The movie

The story about Elvira Madigan and Sixten Sparre was made into a movie in 1967 by Swedish director Bo Widerberg. The soundtrack features the Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C by Mozart, which is now popularly known as "Theme from Elvira Madigan".


The ballad

The story was also retold as a ballad written by Johan Lindström Saxon .

Visan om den sköna konstberiderskan ELVIRA MADIGANS kärlek och grymma död.
Sorgerliga saker hända
Än i våra dar minsann,
Sorgerligast är dock denna -
Den om fröken Madigan.


Vacker var hon som en ängel:
Ögon blå och kind så röd,
Smärt om livet som en stängel;
Men hon fick en grymmer död.


När hon dansade på lina
Lik en liten lärka glad,
Hördes bifallsropen vina
Ifrån fyllda bänkars rad.


Så kom greve löjtnant Sparre,
Vacker var han, utav börd,
Ögon lyste, hjärtan darre,
Och hans kärleksbön blev hörd.


Greve Sparre han var gifter,
Barn och maka hade han,
Men från dessa han nu rymde,
Med Elvira Madigan.


Så till Danmark styrdes färden.
Men det tog ett sorgerligt slut,
Ty långt ut i vida världen
Tänkte de att slå sig ut.


Men se slut var deras pengar,
Ingenting att leva av!
För att undgå ödet stränga
Bygga de sitt bo i grav.


Och pistolen full av smärta
Greven tar och sikte tog
Mot Elviras unga hjärta:
Knappt hon andas, förr´n hon dog.


Ack mig hör, Ni ungdomsglada,
Tänk på dem och sen Er för
Att Ni ej i blod få bada
Ni ock en gång, förr´n Ni dör!


External links

More information in Swedish from the military museum of Ystad
Movie information at ForeignFilms.com
IMDb movie page

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