Eyvin (or Ejvin) was born 24 February 1914 in
Colorado, USA. He later studied at the
Royal Danish Academy of Music. Andersen performed as a violist in the
Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Andersen specialized in
baroque music and worked to make 18th-century music accessible in his time. He established the
School for Old Music () which focused on music from before 1750. He taught
vocal music,
music theory, and the
baroque violin at the school. Among the school's other teachers was composer
Tage Nielsen, who taught
lute and guitar. He died in Copenhagen on 18 October 1969. At the time he had been the organist at , a position which his brother, Aksel, took over after Eyvin's death. ==References==