Ewald Lassen (20 July 1911–?) is a German classical violinist.
Life
Lassen was born in Hamburg in 1911. He attended the
Aufbaugymnasium
The Aufbaugymnasium ("Structured Secondary School") is a school for mature students in Germany and Austria. It serves students who graduated from a Hauptschule or Realschule and are headed for the Abitur.
It is not to be confused with a traditional ...
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
Karl Johannes Max Strub (28 September 1900 – 23 March 1966) was a German violin virtuoso and eminent violin pedagogue. He gained a Europe-wide reputation during his 36 years of activity as primarius of the Strub Quartet. Stations as concertmas ...
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. He was also editor of works by
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
and
Haydn.
In 1951, he married Ilse Achenbach. His brother Harald Lassen (1908-1959) was a philosopher and psychologist.
[ Hermann Glockner: ''Harald Lassen †''. In ''Nachrichten der Giessener Hochschulgesellschaft'' 29 (1960), , hier: S. 74.]
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.
References
External links
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Concertmasters
German classical violinists
German prisoners of war in World War II
1911 births
Year of death unknown
Musicians from Hamburg