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Life Guards' Dragoon Music Corps. The Royal Swedish Cavalry Band (Swedish: Livgardets dragonmusikkår, LDK) is one of three professional military bands in the Swedish Armed Forces. The band traces its ancestry back to the 1500s when King Gustav Vasa raised his first regiment of horse. Today LDK is one of few mounted bands in the world.
Pages in category "Gustav Vasa" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Battle of Västerås; D.
Emile Steinem as Kristan II and David Stockman as Gustav Eriksson in a production of Gustaf Wasa Gustaf Wasa is an opera in three acts with music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann . The work uses a Swedish-language libretto by Johan Henrik Kellgren that is based on a draft crafted by King Gustavus III of Sweden.
They focused on instrumental polska music, with vocals and influences from other traditional genres becoming more prominent since the 1990s. By 1970, the "dansband" culture also began. Music in Sweden is a vital part of Swedish culture, as evidenced by the national success of musical shows like Allsång på Skansen and Melodifestivalen. [1]
Gustav Eriksson Vasa [1] (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), also known as Gustav I, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560. [2] He was previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ( Riksföreståndare ) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden .
Entry of Gustav Vasa into Stockholm. After the Swedish War of Liberation against the Kalmar Union, Sweden had proclaimed itself as an independent state under Gustav Vasa. [2] [4] During the parliamentary meeting at Västerås in 1527, it was decided by Gustav Vasa that the state was to convert to Lutheranism, and in connection with this, he ordered the confiscation of the Church's silver. [5]
The current ruling house of Bernadotte similarly claims a Vasa mantle: Charles XIV was an adopted son of Charles XIII; his son Oscar I married a Vasa descendant Josephine of Leuchtenberg; their grandson Gustav V married Victoria of Baden who was a great-grandchild of Gustav IV Adolf of the house Holstein-Gottorp.
June 6 is the 157th day of the year ... 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected ... Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 ...