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EDUARD LASSEN (1830-19o4)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDUARD

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

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