Eyvin (Ejvin)Andersen (24 February 1914, Colorado, USA – 18 October 1968, Copenhagen, Denmark) was aDanishorganist,violist, andcomposer.^[1]

In the course of his career, Andersen was an organist at Vartov Church, a violist in theDanish National Symphony Orchestra, a teacher at theAcademy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Esbjerg, and the founder of theSchool for Old Music.

Eyvin (or Ejvin) was born 24 February 1914 inColorado.^[1] His mother, Gudrun Pedersen Østergaard, was a teacher, and his father, Indslev Kristian Andersen, was a priest. He and his younger brother,Aksel Andersen, studiedchamber music from a young age with their father.^[2] He later studied at theRoyal Danish Academy of Music.

Andersen performed as a violist in theDanish National Symphony Orchestra.^[2] Alongside Ragnhild Toft and Lavard Friisholm, he established theFrit Forum for Musik (English:Free Forum for Music) in 1944. The organisation functioned as an alternative toDet Unge Tonekunstnerselskab, a branch of theInternational Society for Contemporary Music which was censored heavily duringWWII. The organisation dissolved in 1947, soon after the war had ended.^[3]

Andersen specialized inbaroque music and worked to make 18th-century music accessible in his time.^[4][5] He established theSchool for Old Music (Danish:Skolen for gammel musik) which focused on music from before 1750. He taughtvocal music,music theory, and thebaroque violin at the school. Among the school's other teachers was composerTage Nielsen, who taughtlute and guitar.^[6]

He died on 18 October 1969. At the time he had been the organist atVartov Church [da], a position which his brother, Aksel, took over after Eyvin's death.^[7]

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