!!!Augustin, Lieber, Straßensänger

Augustin, Lieber, b. 1645, 
d. Vienna, March 11, 1685, legendary street musician, bagpipe player 
and impromptu poet. Legend has it that in 1679, when the country was 
ravaged by the plague, he staggered drunken into a pit full of plague 
victims without contracting the fatal disease. He is remembered in the 
popular Austrian folk song "Oh du lieber Augustin".



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