
Marx Augustin (also Markus Augustin, "Der Liebe Augustin") (1643 in
Vienna
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– 11 March 1685 (or 10 October 1705), in Vienna) was an Austrian
minstrel
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer w ...
,
bagpiper, and
improvisatory poet most famous for the song, "
O du lieber Augustin
"" ("Oh, you dear Augustin") is a popular Viennese song, first published about 1800. It is said to refer to the balladeer Marx Augustin and his brush with death in 1679. Augustin himself is sometimes named as the author, but the origin is uncle ...
", which is attributed to him.
References
Greatest Hits, 1820-60 (Variety Music Cavalcade) Accessed 11 June 2009.
1643 births
1685 deaths
1705 deaths
Year of death uncertain
17th-century Austrian musicians
17th-century Austrian people
Austrian male musicians
17th-century Austrian poets
Austrian male poets
Bagpipe players
Musicians from Vienna
17th-century male writers
17th-century male musicians
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