Torgeir Augundsson
Torgeir Augundsson , also Augundson , known under the name Myllarguten (German: the miller's 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 playing and four sympathetic strings that resembles a viola . Augundsson spent his life on concert tours with this instrument through Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The pieces that he composed for his fiddle are based on Norwegian dance styles and some of them have remained lively up to the present day.
Augundsson's role in Norwegian music history exemplifies an interface at which lively minstrel tradition merges with written music and coexists for a while with the idea of professional virtuosity. In addition to his work as a minstrel, Augundsson also performed in the context of civil concerts. He was friends with the violin virtuoso Ole Bull , who introduced him on his tours as an artist of equal rank.
In his late piano arrangements of Norwegian peasant dances, Slåtter op. 72, Edvard Grieg also takes up songs by Augundsson, which he had come to know as tradition, namely through the musician Knud Dahle .
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SURNAME | Augundsson, Torgeir |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Myllarguten; Augundson, Torgeir |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian composer and virtuoso |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sauherad |
DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1872 |
Place of death | Rauland |