Svend Asmussen

Person · Open Library

Works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Denmark

Active from

1916-02-28

Active to

2017-02-07

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Total plays

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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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Re-examination and further development of a precise and rapid dye method for measuring cell growth/cell kill

   · 1989 · cited 2,954x

2. 4th Generation District Heating (4GDH)

   · 2014 · cited 1,941x

3. Late Quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia

   · 2004 · cited 1,337x

4. HMGB1 and RAGE in Inflammation and Cancer

   · 2010 · cited 1,232x

5. DNA Deamination Mediates Innate Immunity to Retroviral Infection

   · 2003 · cited 1,192x

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