1952 in Nordic music

none September 2025 1952 1952 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1952 in Nordic music. Events 11 January – Lars-Erik Larsson's Violin Concerto is premièred on Swedish radio by the Swedish Radio Orchestra, with André Gertler as soloist.Frank Hedman Lars-Erik Larsson: Violin Concerto / A Winter's Tale / Violin Concertino Stig Westerberg & Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra 1986 2–3 CD booklet Swedish Society Discofil Classical SCD 1004 https://www.discogs.com/release/13485661-Lars-Erik-Larsson-Leo-Berlin-Stockholm-Philharmonic-Orchestra-Stig-Westerberg-Violin-Concerto-A-Wint 17797595 19 April – David Wikander's Olavus Petri Cantata is recorded at Stockholm Cathedral, with Wikander himself conducting and Olle Björling (brother of Jussi Björling) as one of the soloists.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSAK9bKTYuM Olle Björling - Olavus Petri Cantata Dead Tenors' Society YouTube 6 September 2025 c. July – Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto wins the Olympic hymn competition.Ruth-Esther Hillila Barbara Blanchard Hong Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland https://books.google.com/books?id=iUQDFlj1ykkC&pg=PA226 1997 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-27728-3 226 unknown date – David Wikander receives the Royal Swedish medal, Litteris et artibus.https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/wikander-david/ David Wikander (1884−1955) Swedish Musical Heritage 6 September 2025 New works Erik Bergman – Espressivohttps://www.fmq.fi/articles/hearing-the-self-through-the-other Hearing the Self through the Other Juha Torvinen Finnish Music Quarterly January 1985 11 November 2025 Jón Leifs – Endurskin úr norðri (Réminiscence du nord)https://shop.icelandmusic.is/work/jon-leifs/endurskin-ur-nordjri-op-40/3500 Endurskin úr norðri Op. 40 Iceland Music 6 September 2025 Gösta Nystroem – Symphony No. 4, "Sinfonia Shakespeariana"https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/nystroem-gosta/SMH-W695-Sinfonia_Shakespeariana_Symphony_no_4 Sinfonia Shakespeariana [Symphony no. 4] Swedish Musical Heritage 6 September 2025 David Wikander – Olavus Petri Cantata Dag Wirén – Symphony No. 4http://dagwiren.se/english/list-of-works-and-discography/ List of works and discography Åhlén Carl-Gunnar n.d. dagwiren.se (The Dag Wirén Foundation) 4 April 2020 Popular music Gunnar Engedahl & Erling Stordahl – "Leken mellom roser"Norsk bokfortegnelse Norske bokhandlerforening 1951 642 Martti Jäppilä – "Iltatuulen viesti" (performed by Matti Kanto with the Masan Harmonikkaorkesteri)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J1F5RC9er4 YouTube ILTATUULEN VIESTI, Matti Kanto ja Masan Harmonikkaorkesteri (Dallapé) v.1952 6 September 2025 Film music Håkan von Eichwald – När syrenerna blommaQvist, Per Olov von Bagh, Peter Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Greenwood Publishing Group 2000 93 Musical films Eldfågeln, with music by Stig Rybrant, starring Tito Gobbi and Eva Henninghttps://mubi.com/en/gb/films/the-firebird-1952 The Firebird (1952) MUBI 6 September 2025 Births 13 January – Pekka Pohjola, Finnish musician and composer (died 2008)http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1620751 https://archive.today/20130213144451/http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1620751 dead 13 February 2013 Basisti Pekka Pohjola on kuollut 27 November 2008 Ilta-Sanomat 27 November 2008 Finnish 25 February – Tomas Ledin, Swedish singer and songwriterInternational Who's who in Music: Popular music, volume 2 Melrose Press 1998 236 25 June – Radka Toneff, Norwegian jazz singer (died 1982)http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Radka_Toneff/utdypning Radka Toneff Tore Halvorsen Norwegian 14 November 2012 Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget 14 October – Kaija Saariaho, Finnish composer (died 2023)Pitkänen Heini Tiikkaja Samuli Säveltäjä Kaija Saariaho on kuollut https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000009630832.html Helsingin Sanomat 2 June 2023 fi 2 June 2023 23 December – Hans Abrahamsen, Danish composerAnders Beyer Abrahamsen, Hans The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2 Stanley Sadie John Tyrrell Macmillan Publishers 2001 Deaths 23 March – Margit Rosengren, Swedish operetta singer (born 1901)https://skbl.se/en/article/MargitRosengren Margit Ingeborg Rosengren Vintkvist, Jennifer Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon 24 February 2021 23 May 2021 sv 10 July – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (born 1893)David Mason Greene Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers Doubleday 1985 9780385142786 1220 14 December – Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer and musical theorist (born 1887)https://nbl.snl.no/Fartein_Valen Issay Dobrowen no Vollsnes Arvid Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget 2009-02-13 25 March 2017 See also 1952 in Denmark 1952 in Iceland 1952 in Norwegian music 1952 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music