Myllarguten

Torgeir Augundsson, Augundson also known under the name Myllarguten ( German: Müller boy) (* 1801 in Sauherad, † November 21, 1872 in Rauland ), was a Norwegian composer and virtuoso on the Hardanger fiddle ( Hardingfele ).

This instrument is a Norwegian folk string instrument with four games and four sympathetic strings that resembles a viola. Augundsson spent his life on tour with this instrument by Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The pieces he composed for his fiddle, based on Norwegian dance tunes and some are still alive in the present.

Augundssons role in Norwegian music history exemplifies an interface that goes to the living minstrel tradition in fixed written music and a time koexisierte with the notion of professional virtuosity. Besides being a musician Augundsson also appeared in the framework of the bourgeois concert life. He was friends with the violin virtuoso Ole Bull, who introduced him on his tours as a peer artists.

Edvard Grieg reaches into his late piano arrangements of Norwegian peasant dances Slåtter op 74 also ways of Augundsson on which he had but to know as tradition, namely, through the minstrel Knud Dahle.

• Composer ( romance )
• Norwegian composer
• Norwegian musicians
• Born in 1801
• Died in 1872
• Man