Marx Augustin (also Markus Augustin, "Der Liebe Augustin") (1643 in

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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 who ...

, 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.

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Greatest Hits, 1820-60 (Variety Music Cavalcade)
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