Svend Asmussen
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- 1
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Denmark
- Active from
- 1916-02-28
- Active to
- 2017-02-07
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Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 - 7 February 2017) was a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the greats of Jazz, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. He played publicly until 2010, his career spanning 8 decades. Asmussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, raised in a musical family, and started taking violin lessons at the age of 7. At age 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violin gr
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christian
- Family name
- Asmussen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Copenhagen
- Place of death
- Dronningmølle
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Metropolitanskolen
- Languages spoken
- Danish
- Genre
- jazz
- Image
- Svend Asmussen Se.jpg
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- Svend Asmussen
- date of birth
- 1916-02-28
- date of death
- 2017-02-07
- start of work period
- 1930-00-00
- subject has role
- centenarian
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