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Svend Asmussen

1916 - 2017

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Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing-style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many other notable jazz musicians, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svend Asmussen has received more than 96,170 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Svend Asmussen is the 895th most popular musician (down from 780th in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 307th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Svend Asmussen ranks 895 out of 2,662Before him are Fatboy Slim, Theodor Kullak, Angélique Kidjo, Paul Chambers, Todd Rundgren, and Neil Peart. After him are Corey Taylor, Tommy Aldridge, Pete Burns, Paul Butterfield, Vitas, and Abdullah Ibrahim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Svend Asmussen ranks 139Before him are M. S. Subbulakshmi, Bismillah Khan, Paul Halmos, Werner Bischof, Veronika Dudarova, and Wan Li. After him are Lou Thesz, Fernando Lamas, Penelope Fitzgerald, Movita Castaneda, Dom Mintoff, and Dorothy McGuire. Among people deceased in 2017, Svend Asmussen ranks 218Before him are Gustavo Rojo, Ulf Stark, John Ashbery, Ivan Dias, Jimmy Snuka, and Hilarion Capucci. After him are Klaus Huber, Jiří Bělohlávek, Gorden Kaye, Haruo Nakajima, Leo Kinnunen, and Mildred Dresselhaus.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Svend Asmussen ranks 339 out of 893Before him are Olafur Eliasson (1967), Kjeld Abell (1901), Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia (1504), Jean Hersholt (1886), and Kim Larsen (1945). After him are Erik Eriksen (1902), Hans Wegner (1914), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg (1524), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), and Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573).

Among MUSICIANS In Denmark

Among musicians born in Denmark, Svend Asmussen ranks 5Before him are Victor Borge (1909), Lars Ulrich (1963), Jacob Gade (1879), and Jørgen Ingmann (1925). After him are Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946), Ole Beich (1955), Michala Petri (1958), Flemming Rasmussen (1958), Trentemøller (1972), Kai Winding (1922), and Nikolaj Koppel (1969).