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21 tunes after Anders Sagen<\/p>\n
On this new album musician and composer Einar Mj\u00f8lsnes (Hardanger fiddle) from Voss has gathered\u00a0all of the 21 tunes played by Anders Sagen that have been transcribed. Mj\u00f8lsnes opens and closes the\u00a0album with his own compositions, which were inspired by, and hold references to, the pieces Sagen\u00a0played.<\/p>\n
Mj\u00f8lsnes discovered the tunes by fiddler Anders Sagen from Berge in Kyrkjeb\u00f8, Sogn, several years ago while leafing\u00a0through \u201cHardingfeleverket\u201d (Norsk folkemusikk, series I: Hardingfelesl\u00e5ttar, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo). A piece with\u00a0an unusual tuning attracted his attention.\u00a0\u201cI noted that the tune was attributed to Anders Haga, Gamlehagen, from\u00a0Voss. This was the area my traditions were drawn from, so I had to learn that tune,\u201d\u00a0writes Mj\u00f8lsnes in his cover\u00a0notes for this album. The tune was \u201cEldgamal springar\u201d as played by Anders Sagen, transcribed by Arne Bj\u00f8rndal.<\/p>\n
During his period as official musician of Hordaland County, Einar Mj\u00f8lsnes had the opportunity to work with these fiddle tunes\u00a0with a view to recording them, and this album is the result of several years of in-depth study of the material.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Einar Mj\u00f8lsnes (b. 1952) is a very highly regarded musician and arranger\/composer. He has been engaged at the Ole Bull Academy\u00a0in Voss and as the official musician for Hordaland County. Among his works as a composer is a piece commissioned for the Osa\u00a0Festival in 1998. He studied at Veitvet Music Conservatory and the Bergen Music Conservatory (now the Grieg Academy).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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On\u00a0this new album musician and composer Einar Mj\u00f8lsnes (Hardanger\u00a0fiddle) from Voss has gathered\u00a0all of the 21 tunes played by Anders\u00a0Sagen that have been transcribed. Mj\u00f8lsnes opens and closes the\u00a0album with his own compositions, which were inspired by, and hold\u00a0references to, the pieces Sagen\u00a0played.<\/p>\n
There\u00a0are a total of 21 fiddle tunes here, and the transcribed notes are\u00a0found in Arne Bj\u00f8rndal\u2019s collection in Bergen.\u00a0Nineteen of them\u00a0were included in \u201cHardingfeleverket\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0discovered that there were a number of tunes as played by Anders\u00a0Sagen, many of them passed down from\u00a0\u2018Gamlehagen\u2019, and in a wide\u00a0range of tunings.\u201d Sagen had learned most of the tunes from Rognald\u00a0Berge from\u00a0Kyrkjeb\u00f8 in Sogn. Berge, in turn, had learned them from\u00a0\u201cGamlehagen\u201d. \u201cI have the impression that Sagen\u00a0preserved the\u00a0tunes as he had learned them, so his playing represents the old form\u00a0of fiddle tunes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sagen\u00a0was born in Berge in Kyrkjeb\u00f8 in 1829, the son of Gj\u00f8a Nilsdotter\u00a0Berge (1800-1883) and Haavard J\u00f8rgenson\u00a0Lokrein (1800-1848) from\u00a0Valdres, who was himself a proficient fiddler. Anders was born out of\u00a0wedlock, and his\u00a0mother later married Lars \u00d8vreberge (b. 1805).\u00a0Anders played at their wedding.<\/p>\n
Anders\u00a0Sagen began playing the fiddle at the age of 11. His teacher was\u00a0Rognald Berge (1797-1885), and he later\u00a0studied with Jens Fresvik\u00a0(1817-1886), also known as Jens H\u00f8gheim or \u201cSkrangle-Jens\u201d\u00a0(\u201cRattling Jens\u201d). Sagen is\u00a0said to have played at around 100\u00a0weddings, so he was obviously a very sought-after fiddler. The fiddle\u00a0he played most\u00a0often was made by Anders Heldal (1811-1897).<\/p>\n
Arne\u00a0Bj\u00f8rndal visited Sagen on several occasions, and his transcripts\u00a0date from 1916 and 1917.<\/p>\n
During\u00a0his period as official musician of Hordaland County, Einar Mj\u00f8lsnes\u00a0had the opportunity to work with these\u00a0fiddle tunes with a view to\u00a0recording them, and this album is the result of several years of\u00a0in-depth study of the\u00a0material.<\/p>\n
Einar\u00a0Mj\u00f8lsnes (b. 1952) is a very highly regarded musician and\u00a0arranger\/composer. He has been engaged at the Ole\u00a0Bull Academy in\u00a0Voss and as the official musician for Hordaland County. Among his\u00a0works as a composer is a piece\u00a0commissioned for the Osa Festival in\u00a01998. He studied at Veitvet Music Conservatory and the Bergen Music\u00a0Conservatory (now the Grieg Academy).<\/p>\n
Einar\u00a0Mj\u00f8lsnes plays in the group Gamaltnymalt together with Sigrid\u00a0Moldestad and H\u00e5kon H\u00f8gemo. The trio won a\u00a0Spelemannspris\u00a0(Norwegian Grammy) in 2005 in the category folk music\/gammeldans for\u00a0their debut album,\u00a0\u201cGamaltnymalt\u201d. Since 2005 he has played in\u00a0the group T\u00f8rvikbygd, a folk music trio playing music from\u00a0Hardanger.\u00a0Einar Mj\u00f8lsnes has performed at concerts in various\u00a0connections, including Vossa Jazz, Telemarkfest, the F\u00f8rde\u00a0Traditional and Folk Music Festival, the Vestfold International\u00a0Festival and the Osa Festival. He has appeared on a\u00a0number of\u00a0recordings and at many festivals, and has collaborated with artists\u00a0such as Gabriel Fliflet, Ivar Kolve, Geir\u00a0Botnen, \u00d8ystein Sunde,\u00a0Kari Bremnes, Lars Klevstrand and Sondre Bratland.<\/p>\n
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