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Rasmus Kristoffer Anton Hansen

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Anton Hansen (bass player)
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Anton Christoffer Rasmus Hansen ( November 19, 1877 in Copenhagen - February 16, 1947 at the same time) was a Danish bassist and kgl. chapel musician .

Anton Hansen played several instruments as a child, became a boy member of a wind orchestra and the side of the Tivoligarden . He played at restaurants but had greater ambitions and therefore received instruction on violin by Anton Bloch , on piano by Holger Dahl and on trumpet by August Petersen . He chose the latter as his main instrument and continuously studied in Berlin and Leipzig in 1911 and in Paris in 1921 - 22 .

From 1898 to 1920 Anton Hansen was a solo bassist at the Tivoli Concert Hall Orchestra. He was hired as a substitute in 1896 and then a regular bassist in the Royal Chapel in 1905 , where he became a solo bassist in 1912 , and from which in 1942 he resigned for health reasons and was replaced by Georg Allin Wilkenschildt . In the chapel he introduced the trunk .

He was also a teacher at the Royal Copenhagen. Danish Academy of Music from 1916 to 1946 and in 1941 published a trumpet school, which became a basic book within the subject. In 1911-16 he was chairman of the Copenhagen Orchestra's Association, 1918 - 19, chairman of the Tivoli and Palæen Concerts Association and 1919- 20 president of the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Chapel's Association.

He died in 1947 after a long illness and was buried in the common grave at Bispebjerg Cemetery .

Rasmus married Ane Sophie Krøll, daughter of Jacob Bertelsen Krøll and Christine Nielsen, on May 17, 1904 in Copenhagen, København, Denmark. (Ane Sophie Krøll was born on Jan 20, 1877 in Copenhagen, København, Denmark.)