{{Short description|Danish organist, violinist, and composer}} {{For|the Norwegian judge|Eyvind Andersen}} {{use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Eyvin Andersen | other_names = Ejvin Andersen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|02|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Colorado, USA | death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|10|18|1914|02|24|df=yes}} | death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark | alma_mater = Royal Danish Academy of Music }}
'''Eyvin''' ('''Ejvin''') '''Andersen''' (24 February 1914 – 18 October 1968) was a Danish organist, violist, and composer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Andersen, Eyvin, 1914–1968|url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98118634.html|access-date=2024-11-12|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
In the course of his career, Andersen was an organist at Vartov Church, a violist in the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, a teacher at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Esbjerg, and the founder of the ''School for Old Music''.
== Biography == Eyvin (or Ejvin) was born 24 February 1914 in Colorado, USA.<ref name=":0" /> His mother, Gudrun Pedersen Østergaard, was a teacher, and his father, Indslev Kristian Andersen, was a priest. He and his younger brother, Aksel Andersen, studied chamber music from a young age with their father.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Berg Rasmussen|first=Søren|date=2014-07-25|title=Aksel Andersen – organist|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Aksel_Andersen_-_organist|access-date=2024-11-12|work=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|language=da}}</ref> He later studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Andersen performed as a violist in the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.<ref name=":1" /> Alongside Ragnhild Toft and Lavard Friisholm, he established the ''Frit Forum for Musik'' (English: ''Free Forum for Music'') in 1944. The organisation functioned as an alternative to ''Det Unge Tonekunstnerselskab'', a branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music which was censored heavily during WWII. The organisation dissolved in 1947, soon after the war had ended.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bruland|first=Inge|date=2023-04-22|title=Ragnhild Toft, pædagog|url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Ragnhild_Toft|access-date=2024-11-12|work=Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon|language=da}}</ref>
Andersen specialized in baroque music and worked to make 18th-century music accessible in his time.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Andersen|first1=Ejvin|last2=Tarp|first2=Svend Erik|date=1944|title=Besynderlig etikette?|url=https://seismograf.org/dmt/19/10/besynderlig-etikette|journal=Dansk Musik Tidsskrift|language=da|volume=19|issue=10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Røllum-Larsen|first=Claus|url=https://tidsskrift.dk/fundogforskning/article/view/118887/166737|publisher=Royal Library, Denmark|date=3 March 2015|editor-last=Lauridsen|editor-first=John T.|volume=54|location=Copenhagen|page=305|language=da|title=J. S. Bach og Danmark: En studie i den danske præsentation og musikfaglige behandling af Bachs værker indtil 1950|journal=Fund og Forskning I Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger |doi=10.7146/fof.v54i0.118887 |editor-last2=Boserup|editor-first2=Ivan|editor-last3=Meile|editor-first3=Jakob K.|doi-access=free|hdl=109.1.5/790668a3-bedf-43ad-b7c3-5e467e8d0222|hdl-access=free}}</ref> He established the ''School for Old Music'' ({{langx|da|Skolen for gammel musik}}) which focused on music from before 1750. He taught vocal music, music theory, and the baroque violin at the school. Among the school's other teachers was composer Tage Nielsen, who taught lute and guitar.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Berg|first=Sigurd|date=1953|title=Musiklivet: Danmark|url=https://seismograf.org/dmt/28/05/musiklivet-danmark|journal=Dansk Musik Tidsskrift|language=da|volume=28|issue=5|pages=113}}</ref>
He died in Copenhagen on 18 October 1969. At the time he had been the organist at {{Interlanguage link|Vartov Church|da|Vartov Kirke}}, a position which his brother, Aksel, took over after Eyvin's death.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Møller|first=Peter|date=1977|title=Aksel Andersen 1912-1977|url=https://salmehistorisk.dk/onewebmedia/HM%201977%20nr.%204.pdf|journal=Hymnologiske Meddelelser|language=da|publisher=Salmehistorisk Selskab|volume=6|issue=4|pages=173}}</ref>
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