1953 in Nordic music

none September 2023 1953 1953 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1953 in Nordic music. Events 1–15 June – The 1st Bergen International Festival is held in Bergen, Norway.https://snl.no/Festspillene_i_Bergen Festspillene I Bergen no Svendsen Trond Olav Store Norske Leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget 2017-02-02 22 March 2017 31 October – Nordmanns-Forbundet, a friendship association in the United States, holds a "Music of Norway" concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring music by Edvard Grieg and Sparre Olsen, with Percy Grainger as piano soloist.News of Norway, volume 10 The Representative 1953 124 unknown dates Swedish tenor Jussi Björling records roles from the operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, both with Stockholm Opera.http://www.borlange.se/templates/BlgPage____65925.aspx Björling's known recordings and their CD and DVD issues borlange.se 9 September 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20130630120517/http://www.borlange.se/templates/BlgPage____65925.aspx 2013-06-30 The Wihuri Sibelius Prize, founded by Antti Wihuri, is awarded for the first time, to Jean Sibelius, after whom it is named.https://wihuriprizes.fi/en/history/ History Wihuri prize 10 September 2025 New works Kurt Atterberg – Sinfonia per archihttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/atterberg-kurt/SMH-W750-Sinfonia_per_Archi_ossia_Quintetto Sinfonia per Archi ossia Quintetto Swedish Musical Heritage 9 September 2025 Erland von Koch Musica intimahttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/koch-erland-von/SMH-W2412-Musica_intima Musica intima Swedish Musical Heritage 8 September 2025 Musica malinconicahttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/koch-erland-von/SMH-W2409-Musica_malinconica_Melancholic_music/ Musica malinconica (Melancholic music) Swedish Musical Heritage 8 September 2025 Dag Wirén – String Quartet no. 4https://swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/wiren-dag/SMH-W748-String_Quartet_no_4/ String Quartet no. 4 Swedish Musical Heritage 9 September 2025 Popular music Åke Gerhard & Leon Landgren – "Mjölnarens Iréne"Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series Library of Congress 1954 606 Film music Toivo Kärki – Rantasalmen sulttaaniQvist, Per Olov von Bagh, Peter Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Greenwood Publishing Group 2000 249 Sven Gyldmark Farlig Ungdomhttps://mubi.com/en/gb/films/farlig-ungdom Farlig Ungdom MUBI 9 September 2025 Far til Firehttp://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnffuldvis&p_parmlist=filmid=9660 Far til Fire Danish Film Institute 9 September 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20070612231758/http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnffuldvis&p_parmlist=filmid=9660 2007-06-12 Musical films Lumikki ja 7 jätkää (Snow White and the 7 Loggers), with music by George de GodzinskyPer Olav Qvist Peter von Bagh Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Bloomsbury Academic 2000 9780313303777 260 Births 28 February – Osmo Vänskä, Finnish clarinettist, conductor and composerRoderick L Sharpe Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman Maestros in America Bloomsbury Publishing 2008 9798216339779 270 22 April – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composerSeptember 2025 4 May – Jakob Frímann Magnússon, Icelandic composer, filmmaker and politicianhttps://www.althingi.is/altext/cv/en/?nfaerslunr=234 Jakob Frímann Magnússon Althingi 9 September 2025 10 June – Svein Nymo, Norwegian violinist and composer (died 2014)http://www.vl.no/kultur/han-var-en-gnistrende-kraft-1.304285 – Han var en gnistrende kraft Norwegian Sondre Bjørdal Vårt Land 2014-12-09 29 April 2017 30 June – Ståle Wikshåland, Norwegian musicologist (died 2017)Ståle Wikshåland Nils E. Bjerkestrand Store norske leksikon Godal Anne Marit Anne Marit Godal Norsk nettleksikon Oslo https://snl.no/Ståle_Wikshåland Norwegian 27 January 2017 14 July – Åke Parmerud, Swedish composer and artist September 2025 Deaths 2 February – Bergliot Ibsen, Norwegian mezzo-soprano (born 1869)Bergliot Ibsen Norsk biografisk leksikon Inger Elisabeth Haavet Helle, Knut Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Bergliot_Ibsen/utdypning Norwegian 11 September 2011 9 December – Issay Dobrowen, Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor (born 1891)https://snl.no/Issay_Dobrowen Issay Dobrowen no Store Norske Leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget 2009-02-14 22 March 2017 See also 1953 in Denmark 1953 in Iceland 1953 in Norwegian music 1953 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music