1949 in Nordic music

none August 2025 1949 1949 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1949 in Nordic music. Events 24 March – Gösta Nystroem's Sinfonia del mare (Symphony No 3) receives its première at Gothenburg Concert Hall.https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/nystroem-gosta/SMH-W732-Sinfonia_del_mare_Symphony_no_3 Sinfonia del mare [Symphony no. 3] Swedish Musical Heritage 12 August 2025 unknown date – Tromsø University's Department of Traditional Music is established by Arnt Bakke.https://uit.no/Content/416729/About%20the%20Department%20of%20Traditional%20(3)Music.pdf About the Department of Traditional Music University of Tromsø 2017-03-31 New works Erik Bergman – Intervalleshttps://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 Vagn Holmboe String Quartet No. 2Rapoport, Paul 1996 The Compositions of Vagn Holmboe 87-598-0813-6 Copenhagen Edition Wilhelm Hansen Cantata No. 7 Rued Langgaard – Symphony No. 15 Søstormen, BVN 375https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=6.220555 LANGGAARD, R.: Symphonies Nos. 15, "Sostormen" and 16, "Syndflod af Sol" (Danish National Symphony, Dausgaard) Naxos 14 August 2025 Allan Pettersson – Violin Concerto No. 1https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/pettersson-concerto-for-violin-and-string-quartet PETTERSSON Concerto for Violin and String Quartet Guy Rickards Gramophone 12 August 2025 Johnny Schönning – Donky-Fuguehttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/schonning-johnny/SMH-W519-Donky-Fugue Donky-Fugue Swedish Musical Heritage 12 August 2025 Fartein Valen – Symphony No.4, Op. 43Bjarne Kortsen Fartein Valen: Life and Music: The music (analyses) J. G. Tanum 1965 272 Popular music Åke Grönberg – "Den gamla dansbanan"The American Swedish Monthly, Volume 44 Swedish Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. 1949 34 Reino Helismaa – "Päivänsäde ja menninkäinen"Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sundown Peter Owen 2003 9780720611717 123 Film music Hugo Alfvén – SingoallaSingoalla (1949) – Svensk filmdatabas http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=film&itemid=4279#soundtrack-listing Svensk filmdatabas 23 April 2018 Johnny Bode – Åsa-NisseJohn Sundholm Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema Scarecrow Press 2012 62 Births 9 March – Kalevi Aho, Finnish composerhttp://www.nachschlage.net/search/kdg/Kalevi+Aho/5.html Kalevi Aho – Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG) Nachschlage.net 3 January 2018 4 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180104073544/http://www.nachschlage.net/search/kdg/Kalevi+Aho/5.html dead 2 September – Knut Borge, Norwegian journalist, entertainer and broadcaster (died 2017)https://www.nrk.no/kultur/kollegaer-sorger-over-knut-borge_-_-en-vegg-har-falt-ut-1.13468283 Kollegaer sørger over Knut Borge: – En vegg har falt ut Hanna Huglen Revheim no NRK 2017-04-09 25 April 2017 19 December – Sebastian, Danish singerSebastian: Når lyset bryder frem Bille, Torben Lindhardt og Ringhof 2009 978-87-11-43358-4 1st da 19 Deaths 28 January – Gustaf Nordqvist, Swedish church musician and composer (born 1886)Anders Lönn Nordqvist, Gustaf 2001 Nordqvist, Gustaf ( Lazarus ) Grove Music Online Oxford University Press 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20062 28 September – Nancy Dalberg, Danish composer (born 1881)Bernhardsson Yngve Dalberg, Nancy (1881–1949) https://www.kammarmusikforbundet.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Dalberg-Nancy-in-English.pdf Kammermusikforbundet.se Kammermusikforbundet 26 June 2024 13 November – Magna Lykseth-Skogman, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1874)Lykseth-Schjerven, Magna in Großes Sängerlexikon, Band 4 Kutsch Karl-Josef Riemens Leo Walter de Gruyter 2012 de 978-3-598-44088-5 2828 See also 1949 in Denmark 1949 in Iceland 1949 in Norwegian music 1949 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music