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LASSEN, EDUARD (1830-19o4)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LASSEN, EDUARD (1830-19o4) , Belgian musical composer, was See also:born in See also:Copenhagen, but was taken as a See also:child to See also:Brussels and educated at the Brussels See also:Conservatoire. He won the prix de See also:Rome in 1851, and went for a See also:long tour in See also:Germany and See also:Italy. He settled at See also:Weimar, where in 1861 he succeeded See also:Liszt as conductor of the See also:opera, and he died there on the 15th of See also:January 1904. Besides many well-known songs, he wrote operas—Landgraf See also:Ludwig's Brautfahrt (1857), See also:Frauenlob (1861), Le Captif (1868)—instrumental See also:music to dramas, notably to See also:Goethe's See also:Faust (1876), two symphonies and various choral See also:works.

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