1940 in Nordic music

none July 2025 1940 1940 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1940 in Nordic music. Events 25 October – Lars-Erik Larsson's Intima miniatyrer för stråkkvartett, written in 1938, is premièred in Stockholmhttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/larsson-lars-erik/SMH-W736-Intima_miniatyrer_for_strakkvartett Intima miniatyrer för stråkkvartett Swedish Musical Heritage 6 July 2025 New works John Fernström – Cello Concertohttps://johnfernstrom.com/en/compositions Compositions John Fernström 5 July 2025 Lars-Erik Larsson – God in Disguise (cantata)Joakim Tillman Förklädd Gud (A God Disguised) Gustaf Sjökvist & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra 2012 20–21 CD booklet Kungliga Hovstaterna 7320470113356 https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8024559--forkladd-gud-a-god-disguised Gösta Nystroem – Viola Concerto, "Hommage à la France"https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/nystroem-gosta/SMH-W2386-Concerto_for_Viola_and_Orchestra_Homage_a_la_France Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Swedish Musical Heritage 5 July 2025 Geirr Tveitt – Dragaredokko (opera)Asknes Hallgjerd Tveitt, Geirr Dag Wirén – Sonatina for violin and pianohttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/wiren-dag/SMH-W755-Sonatina_for_violin_and_piano/ Sonatina for violin and piano Swedish Musical Heritage 5 July 2025 Popular music Thore Ehrling, Eskil Eckert-Lundin, Hasse Ekman – "Regntunga skyar"Frank Hedman Karleric Liliedahl Lars Zackrisson Alice Babs Rabén & Sjögren 1973 sv Leo Mathisen – "Take it Easy"https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2022-03-31/leo-the-lion-and-jazz-in-denmark-during-the-nazi-occupation Leo the Lion and Jazz in Denmark during the Nazi Occupation 31 March 2022 WRTI 5 July 2025 Nils Perne (Jokern) – "Min soldat"Nordic War Stories: World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory Berghahn Books Marianne Stecher-Hansen 2021 9781789209624 240 Jean Sibelius – "Finlandia hymn" (new version with words by Veikko Antero KoskenniemiTomi Mäkelä Jean Sibelius Boydell Press 2011 9781843836889 300 Film music Victor Cornelius – Familien Olsenhttps://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/familien-olsen Familien Olsen DFI 5 July 2025 Jolly Kramer-Johansen – Vildmarkens sångPer Olov Qvist Peter von Bagh Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Greenwood Publishing Group 2000 58 Musical films SF-paraati, with music by Georg Malmsténhttps://mubi.com/en/gb/films/sf-parade SF-Parade MUBI 5 July 2025 Swing it, magistern!, with music by Sten Axelsson, Alice Tegnér, Thore Ehrling & Kai Gullmar and others Births 20 March – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian jazz trombonist, composer, music arranger, and conductor (died 2012)Tone Staude Oddvin Aune http://www.nrk.no/kultur/frode-thingnaes-er-dod-1.8397689 Frode Thingnæs er død no NRK 2012-11-15 30 April 2017 29 March – Allan Botschinsky, Danish jazz trumpeter (died 2020)Larry Kemp Current Jazz Trumpet Legends Dorrance Publishing Company 2018 9781480977273 14 3 May – Leif Rygg, Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player (died 2018)Leif Rygg Kåre Johan Mjør Allkunne Grepstad Ottar Ottar Grepstad Nynorsk kultursentrum https://www.allkunne.no/framside/biografiar/r/leif-rygg/101/2591/ Norwegian 8 February 2018 12 May – Lill Lindfors, Finnish-Swedish singerRecordings by Lill Lindfors https://www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Lill_Lindfors/74919 2023-11-19 www.naxos.com 22 December – Boris Lindqvist, Swedish jazz and rock musician and schlager singer (died 2017)https://www.hd.se/2005-12-22/boris-rock-boris-lindqvist-fyller-65-ar-den-22-december Boris "Rock-Boris" Lindqvist fyller 65 år den 22 december 22 December 2005 Helsingborgs Dagblad 20 October 2017 Swedish Deaths 7 January – Carl Boberg, Swedish hymn-writer (born 1859)J. Irving Erickson Twice-born Hymns Covenant Press 1976 9780910452304 90 29 May – Mathilda Grabow, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1852)https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=13121 Mathilda E E Grabow SBL 5 July 2025 6 November – Ivar F. Andresen, Norwegian operatic bass (born 1896) Kutsch K.-J. Karl-Josef Kutsch Riemens Leo Leo Riemens Andresen, Ivar Großes Sängerlexikon De Gruyter 4th de 2012 107–108 978-3-59-844088-5 3 December – Walborg Lagerwall, Swedish cellist (born 1851)https://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/lagervall-valborg Lagervall, Lagerwall, Valborg, Walborg (Koncordia Conkordia Maria) Sophie Drinker Institut de 5 July 2025 unknown date – Petur Alberg, Faroese violinist and composer (born 1885)Harry D. Schurdel Nationalhymnen der Welt: Entstehung und Gehalt Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag de 2006 9783254082213 46 See also 1940 in Denmark 1940 in Iceland 1940 in Norwegian music 1940 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music