1963 in Nordic music

none November 2025 1963 1963 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1963 in Nordic music. Events 23 March – The 8th Eurovision Song Contest is held in London and is won by Denmark, represented by husband-and-wife duo Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann Dansevise". Sweden, Finland and Norway finish in joint 13th and last place (with the Netherlands), all with no points.London 1963 – Scoreboard https://eurovision.tv/event/london-1963/final European Broadcasting Union 30 March 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210330122650/https://eurovision.tv/event/london-1963/final 30 March 2021 live 15 May – At the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, Bent Fabric wins the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song for "Alley Cat".http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1963-215.html Grammy Awards 1963 Grammy 17 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161207105152/http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1963-215.html 2016-12-07 dead October – Thor's Hammer, also known as Hljómar or the Keflavik band, give their first public performance. New works Aarre Merikanto – Juha (opera; composed in 1922, premiered in 1963)https://www.schott-music.com/en/juha-no783141.html Juha Schott Music 6 November 2025 Geirr Tveitt – A Hundred Hardanger Tunes arranged for orchestraStoraas Reidar 12 March 2009 https://nbl.snl.no/Geirr_Tveitt Geirr Tveitt Norsk biografisk leksikon Norwegian 25 July 2020 Erland von Koch – Drei Orchesterminiaturenhttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/koch-erland-von/SMH-W2416-Drei_Orchesterminiaturen Drei Orchesterminiaturen Swedish Musical Heritage 7 November 2025 Popular music Four Cats – "Suuret setelit"https://www.veikkotiitto.fi/fourcats.htm fi Diskografia 1960 - 2014 veikkotiitto.fi 7 November 2025 Beppe Wolgers & Bobbie Ericsson – "En gång i Stockholm", performed by Monica Zetterlundhttps://shop.per-olovkindgren.com/product/tribute-to-monica-sheet-music/ Tribute to Monica PER-OLOV KINDGREN MUSIC ONLINE 8 November 2025 New recordings Fred Åkerström – Fred Åkerström sjunger Ruben NilsonPeter Mosskin sv Fred Åkerström : ingenstans fri som en fågel: en biografi Norstedts 2014 9789113057538 Ruben Nilson Sven-Bertil Taube – Carl Michael Bellman, volume 2https://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001559014 Carl Michael Bellman. Volym 2 / Sven-Bertil Taube Svensk mediedatabas 7 November 2025 Eurovision Song Contest Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 Film music Ulf Björlin – Kurragömmahttps://mubi.com/en/films/kurragomma/cast Kurragömma MUBI 7 November 2025 Bo Nilsson – En söndag i septemberhttps://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=4670 A Sunday in September Swedish Film Database 7 November 2025 Charles Redland – Sten Stensson kommer tillbakaJürgen Wölfe Roland Löper Das grosse Lexikon der Filmkomponisten: die Magier der cineastischen Akustik, von Ennio Morricone bis Hans Zimmer de Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2003 9783896022967 421 Births 15 May – Mika Vainio, Finnish electronic musician (died 2017)Karemo Tuomas Mika Vainio – A Quiet Life 18 December 2017 https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2017/12/18/mika-vainio-a-quiet-life Yle 2 August 2019 Finnish 26 December – Lars Ulrich, Danish heavy metal drummerhttps://www.biography.com/people/lars-ulrich--20851827 Lars Ulrich Biography A&E Networks 4 April 2014 30 September 2018 13 April 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190413112318/https://www.biography.com/people/lars-ulrich--20851827 dead Deaths 20 February – Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (born 1879)William H. Rehrig The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music Integrity Press 1991 267 11 April – Arvid Gram Paulsen, Norwegian jazz saxophonist and trumpeter (born 1922)Arvid Gram Paulsen Biography Norwegian Johs Bergh Store Norske Leksikon http://snl.no/Arvid_Gram_Paulsen 27 September 2013 See also 1960s Music 1963 in Denmark 1963 in Iceland 1963 in Norwegian music 1963 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music