Oddvar Nygaard (July 23, 1919 – April 21, 1985) was a Norwegian accordionist and composer. Nygaard was born in Hundorp in the municipality of Sør-Fron. His first recording was made in 1942, and his teachers included the accordionist Ottar E. Akre. Together with the fiddler , he was one of the most important Norwegian folk musicians in the decades after the Second World War. With his ensemble, the Oddvar Nygaard Quartet (Oddvar Nygaards kvartett), he recorded 24 albums between 1964 and 1985. In addition to Nygaard himself on accordion, the quartet consisted of Ola Opheim on fiddle, on guitar, and Håkon Nilsen on bass. The quartet won the 1973 Spellemannprisen in the category of folk music and old-fashioned dance, which was awarded for the first time that year. In 1976, Nygaard and Opheim w