1977 in Nordic music

none August 2025 1977 1977 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 1977. Events 7 May – The 22nd Eurovision Song Contest is held in London, after being postponed from 2 April because of a BBC technicians' strike. Finland is the best-performing of the Scandinavian countries, finishing 10th. Norway finishes 14th and Sweden 18th. Denmark does not participate.London 1977 – Scoreboard https://eurovision.tv/event/london-1977/final European Broadcasting Union 11 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210411091002/https://eurovision.tv/event/london-1977/final 11 April 2021 live December – Swedish punk band Ebba Grön is founded in Stockholm.https://www.gp.se/kultur/fakta-ebba-gr%C3%B6n-1.1153343 Fakta Ebba Grön Göteborgs-Posten Swedish 7 February 2008 5 August 2025 New works Kalevi Aho – Quintet, for bassoon and string quartetThe Double Reed International Double Reed Society 1984 38 Birgitte Alsted – Strygekvartet i CD, for string quartetDansk musiktidsskrift Unge Tonekunstnerselskab da 1988 9 Bengt Hambraeus – Antiphonie: Cathedral Music for Organhttps://ohscatalog.org/bengt-hambraeus-organ-works-1977-2000/ Bengt Hambraeus, Organ Works OHS Catalog 5 August 2025 Pehr Henrik Nordgren Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 33https://bis.eclassical.com/performers/segerstam-hannele/finnish-violin-concertos.html Finnish Violin Concertos BIS Records 5 August 2025 Summer Music for orchestra, Op. 34 Akinosuke-no-yume (安芸之助の夢; The Dream of Akinosuke) for piano, Op. 35https://core.musicfinland.fi/works/akinosuke-no-yume-d27dca0f-a098-4231-86c7-73df0df0a811 Akinosuke-no-yume Music Finland Core 5 August 2025 Jyūroku-zakura (十六ざくら) for piano, Op. 36https://core.musicfinland.fi/composers/pehr-henrik-nordgren Pehr Henrik Nordgren Music Finland Core 5 August 2025 Jikininki (食人鬼) for piano, Op. 37 Häjyt (The Evil Braggarts), orchestral music for the television play, Op. 38 Butterflies for guitar solo, Op. 39 fi Tuolla mun heilani asuskeloo (Yonder Lives My Sweet Love) for string orchestra, Op. 40https://core.musicfinland.fi/works/tuolla-mun-heilani-asuskeloo-op-40 Tuolla mun heilani asuskeloo Music Finland Core 5 August 2025 Per Nørgård Kredsløb, for SATB choirhttps://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/kredslob-1977-18811880.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqhpGZQV4CMPAD69JmuY4MU5e-7ZgwymM16elJXhYzHpAA1vA5W Kredslob 1977 Sheet Music Plus 5 August 2025 Mating Dance, for flute (+ alto flute) and guitarHannu Annala Heiki Matlik Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated 2010 9781609743536 111 Twilight, for orchestrahttps://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/21632/Twilight--Per-N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd/ Twilight (1979) Wise Music Classical 5 August 2025 Einojuhani Rautavaara Suomalainen myytti (A Finnish Myth), for string orchestraBarbara Blanchard Hong Rautavaara's Journey in Music Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022 9781538172346 279–80 Serenades of the Unicorn, for guitar Aulis Sallinen – Simppeli Simme ja Hamppari, for mixed choirhttps://webshop.fennicagehrman.fi/page/product/simppeli-simme-ja-hamppari-hamme/1131124 Simppeli Simme ja Hamppari Hamme Fennica Gehrman 7 August 2025 Hit singles ABBA – "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (#1 Belgium, Ireland, South Africa, UK) David Roberts 2006 British Hit Singles & Albums 19th Guinness World Records Limited London 1-904994-10-5 338–9 Monica Aspelund – "Lapponia" (#20 Sweden)https://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?search=lapponia&cat=s Lapponia Swedishcharts.com 5 August 2025 Jan Lindblad – "Oh Shenandoah" (#1 Sweden)https://swedishcharts.com/search.asp?search=jan+lindblad&cat=s Oh Shenandoah Swedishcharts.com 5 August 2025 Shu-bi-dua – "Mig og så Harry"https://dsl.dk/medarbejdere/hl/publikationer/54117-Danske%20studier%202008_1.pdf Danske Studier 2008.1.pdf, side 24 18 Anita Skorgan – "Casanova" (#4 Norway)https://norwegiancharts.com/search.asp?search=Anita+Skorgan&cat=s Casanova Norwegiancharts.com 5 August 2025 Hit albums ABBA – ABBA: The AlbumGuinness Book of Rock Stars Rees Dafydd Crampton Luke Guinness Publishing Ltd. 1991 0-85112-971-4 Enfield 1 Eurovision Song Contest Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 Film and television music Björn Isfält & Lasse Dahlberg – Bröderna Lejonhjärtahttp://sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?itemid=5005&type=MOVIE&iv=Basic Bröderna Lejonhjärta Swedish Film Database English 23 September 1977 24 September 2016 Ralph Lundsten – Elvis! Elvis!http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1977 10th Moscow International Film Festival (1977) 13 January 2013 MIFF dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194935/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1977 16 January 2013 Gunner Møller Pedersen – En Forårsdag i HelvedeWilliam Fotheringham William Fotheringham Sunday in Hell: Behind the Lens of the Greatest Cycling Film of All Time https://books.google.com/books?id=VbssDwAAQBAJ Random House UK London 2018 978-1-4481-5635-1 Musical films ABBA: The Moviehttps://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/movies/at-the-movies.html?pagewanted=1 At the Movies Dave Kehr The New York Times 22 March 2002 9 April 2010 Deaths 8 February – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and music-theorist (born 1901) https://snl.no/Eivind_Groven Eivind Groven Store norske leksikon Rune J. Andersen 1 May 2018 5 March – Moses Pergament, Finnish-born classical composerRosengren Henrik Jewishness, Internationalism and the Swedish Music Scene – The Reception of Moses Pergament 2019-01-29 https://brill.com/display/book/9789004388291/BP000058.xml A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925–1950 849–859 2023-08-18 Brill en 978-90-04-38829-1 18 October – Kristian Hauger, Norwegian pianist, orchestra leader and composer of popular music (born 1905)Kristian Hauger Norsk biografisk leksikon Svend Erik Løken Larsen Helle, Knut Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo http://nbl.snl.no/Kristian_Hauger Norwegian 7 June 2014 24 October – Hugo Myrtelius, Swedish conductor and composer (born 1892 in Nordic music)August 2025 unknown date – John Gunnarsson Helland, Norwegian Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1897)August 2025 See also 1977 in Denmark 1977 in Iceland 1977 in Norwegian music 1977 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music