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'''Ewald Lassen''' (20 July 1911–?) is a German classical violinist.

== Life == Lassen was born in Hamburg in 1911. He attended the Aufbaugymnasium in his home town and received violin lessons from 1927 to 1931 from Jan Gesterkamp at the Brahms Conservatory. He then studied with Max Strub in Berlin.

From 1935 to 1937 he was deputy concert master at the Staatstheater Schwerin. From 1937 to 1939, he held the 1st concert master position at the Municipal Orchestra Gießen-Bad Nauheim. In 1939, he became violinist of the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester. In 1940, he was called up for military service. Until 1949, he stayed a prisoner of war. After that, he played with the 2nd violins of the Frankfurt museum orchestra.<ref>Paul Bartholomäi: ''Das Frankfurter Museums-Orchester. Zwei Jahrhunderte Musik für Frankfurt''. Musikverlag Peters, Frankfurt among others 2002, {{ISBN|3-87626-224-0}}, {{p.|89}}}.</ref> He was also editor of works by Mozart and Haydn.<ref>Alfred Baresel: ''Generalmusikdirektor Lovro von Matacic''. In Heinrich Heym (ed.): ''Frankfurt und sein Theater''. Im Auftrag der Städtischen Bühnen Frankfurt, Kramer, Frankfurt, 1963, pp. 240ff., here {{p.|243}}.</ref>

In 1951, he married Ilse Achenbach. His brother Harald Lassen (1908-1959) was a philosopher and psychologist.<ref>Hermann Glockner: ''Harald Lassen †''. In ''Nachrichten der Giessener Hochschulgesellschaft'' 29 (1960), {{pp.|74|82}}, hier: S. 74.</ref>

== Further reading == * Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (ed.): ''Kürschners deutscher Musiker-Kalender 1954''. 2nd edition of the Deutschen Musiker-Lexikons, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, Sp. 709.

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