Svenske Niels

Swedish fiddler and composer, born 1833 in Skåne, Sweden - died 1879 in Vendsyssel, Denmark. Nils Andersson migrated to Jutland in the 1850s and became a travelling fiddler from the 1860s. He composed a large number of dance tunes, of which 181 were published in the book "Svenske Nils", Spillemandskredsens Forlag Aps, 1992, collected and edited by Henry Mark (2).