MUSICIAN

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 101,113 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Svend Asmussen is the 1,010th most popular musician (down from 892nd in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 337th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Musician.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Svend Asmussen ranks 1,010 out of 3,175. Before him are John Williams, Dennis Stratton, Helen Merrill, Brian Connolly, Pío Leyva, and Otis Rush. After him are Gina Bachauer, Alan White, John Lewis, Alexi Laiho, Lennie Tristano, and Trevor Pinnock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Svend Asmussen ranks 156. Before him are Evelyn Keyes, Paul Halmos, Dom Mintoff, Anton Diffring, Werner Bischof, and Antonio Buero Vallejo. After him are Jenő Fock, Franco Fabrizi, Torsten Hägerstrand, George Sidney, Anne Hébert, and Halet Çambel. Among people deceased in 2017, Svend Asmussen ranks 251. Before him are Vitaly Churkin, Vladimir Petrov, Torgny Lindgren, Željko Perušić, Eugene Garfield, and Tony Atkinson. After him are Ruth Pfau, Gösta Ekman, Marita Lindahl, Ivan Dias, Derek Parfit, and Jacques Simon.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Svend Asmussen ranks 379 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark (1788), Lise Nørgaard (1917), Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825), Christian August Lorentzen (1749), Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1947), and Hans Ørberg (1920). After him are Bodil Joensen (1944), Viggo Kampmann (1910), Carl Lange (1834), Ari Behn (1972), Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778), and Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913).

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Among MUSICIANS In Denmark

Among musicians born in Denmark, Svend Asmussen ranks 6. Before him are Victor Borge (1909), Lars Ulrich (1963), Jacob Gade (1879), Jørgen Ingmann (1925), and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946). After him are Ole Beich (1955), Michala Petri (1958), John Tchicai (1936), Kai Winding (1922), Flemming Rasmussen (1958), and Trentemøller (1972).

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