1887 in Nordic music

none February 2025 1887 1887 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1887 in Nordic music. Events 17 September – Danish composer Carl Nielsen plays the violin at Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen at the premiere of his own Andante tranquillo e Scherzo for strings.https://www.carlnielsen.dk/bio/#biography/young-and-promising.php Ung og lovende Carl Nielsen Society da 11 February 2025 29 December – Ivar Hallström's "fairy play" Per Svinaherde receives its premiere at the Stockholm Opera House.https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/hallstrom-ivar/SMH-W4395-Per_Svinaherde_Sagospel_i_3_Akter_Per_Svinaherde_approx_Peter_the_Swin Per Svinaherde. Sagospel i 3 Akter Swedish Musical Heritage 11 February 2025 unknown date Danish conductor and composer Frederik Rung sets up the Madrigal choir at the Cecilia Association (Caeciliaforening) of Copenhagen.Nineteenth-Century Choral Music Taylor & Francis 2013 9781136294099 173 Danish poet Holger Drachmann meets cabaret singer Amanda Nielsen, who becomes his muse.http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/869/origin/170/ Amanda Nielsen (1866-1953) Thomsen, Allan Mylius Kvinfo 19 June 2017 Danish Norwegian organist, music teacher and critic Catharinus Elling graduates from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, Germany. https://snl.no/Catharinus_Elling Catharinus Elling Store norske leksikon Rune J. Andersen 25 November 2024 11 February 2025 New works Catharinus Elling – Valse capriser Edvard Grieg – Third Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, opus 45 (written at Troldhaugen the previous autumn)Chris Woodstra All music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music Backbeat Books 2005 531 Jean Sibelius – Piano Trio in D majorBarnett Andrew 2007 Sibelius New Haven Yale University Press 978-0-300-11159-0 27–30 Popular music Laura Netzel – "Blomman"Blomman, song at the piano https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/netzel-laura/SMH-W3174-Blomman_song_at_the_piano Swedish Musical Heritage 7 June 2025 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger – "Irmelin"https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/peterson-berger-wilhelm/SMH-W5194-Irmelin Irmelin Swedish Musical Heritage 7 June 2025 Births 17 February – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish conductor, composer and teacher (died 1947)https://fennicagehrman.fi/composer/madetoja-leevi/ Madetoja, Leevi Fennica Gehrman 11 February 2025 23 February – Oskar Lindberg, Swedish composer (died 1955)Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900 W.W. Norton Incorporated 1938 465 3 April – Edvard Bræin, Norwegian organist, conductor and composer (died 1957) https://snl.no/Edvard_Br%C3%A6in Edvard Bræin no Store norske leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo 9 October 2013 23 April 2017 30 May – Emil Reesen, Danish pianist, conductor, composer and musical director (died 1964)Jens Cornelius Emil Reesen Danske komponister, bd. 16 Multivers 2023 9788779176256 4 June – Irma Tervani, Finnish operatic contralto (died 1936)https://runeberg.org/nfch/0516.html Tervani, Irma Nordisk familjebok 1919 25 June 2017 Swedish 971 25 August – Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer (died 1952)https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/articles/v/f/fartein-valen.htm Fartein Valen Classical Music Daily 11 February 2025 12 December – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer, also an engineer (died 1974)https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/articles/a/k/kurt-atterberg.htm Kurt Atterberg Classical Music Daily 11 February 2025 Deaths 7 February – Hanna Brooman, Swedish composer and teacher (born 1809)https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/brooman-hanna/ Hanna Brooman Swedish Musical Heritage 11 February 2025 7 May – Alette Due, Norwegian singer and composer (born 1812)https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/due-alette-alethe/?action=composers&composer=due-alette-alethe Alette (Alethe) Due (1812−1887) Swedish Musical Heritage 11 February 2025 23 May – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, Norwegian composer (born 1812)https://snl.no/Ludvig_Mathias_Lindeman Ludvig Mathias Lindeman Store norske leksikon 10 September 2024 11 February 2025 15 August – Hedvig Willman, Swedish opera singer (born 1841)https://runeberg.org/nfcl/0307.html Hedvig Willman 565-566 Nordisk famijebok no 11 February 2025 2 November – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano called "the Swedish Nightingale" (born 1820)Cecilia Jorgensen Jens Jorgensen Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale: The Life and Times of Chopin and a Romance Unveiled 154 Years Later https://books.google.com/books?id=FhgXAQAAIAAJ 2003 Icons of Europe 978-2-9600385-0-7 89 See also 1880s in Danish music 1887 in Norwegian music 1887 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music