Eyvin Andersen

Eyvin (Ejvin) Andersen (24 February 1914, Colorado, USA – 18 October 1968, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish organist, violist, and composer.

[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, studied chamber music from a young age with their father.

The organisation functioned as an alternative to Det Unge Tonekunstnerselskab, a branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music which was censored heavily during WWII.

At the time he had been the organist at Vartov Church [da], a position which his brother, Aksel, took over after Eyvin's death.