1987 in Nordic music

none May 2025 1987 1987 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Nordic music in 1987. Events 10 April – Dag Arnesen's commissioned work, "Strøtanker og røde roser", is premièred at the Vossajazz festival in Norway.https://tv.nrk.no/serie/vossajazz/sesong/1987/episode/FMUS00002787 Jazz - strøtanker og røde roser NRK 26 May 2025 9 May – At the 32nd Eurovision Song Contest, Denmark is the best-performing of the Scandinavian countries, finishing in 5th place. Norway finishes 9th, Sweden 12th, Finland 15th and Iceland 16th.Brussels 1987 – Scoreboard https://eurovision.tv/event/brussels-1987/final European Broadcasting Union 16 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210416165257/https://eurovision.tv/event/brussels-1987/final 16 April 2021 live November – Agnetha Fältskog releases a new solo album, produced by Peter Cetera in California.Carl Magnus Palm (2001) Bright Lights – Dark Shadows, Omnibus Press UK, 978-0-7119-8389-2, page 488 Classical works Per Nørgård – Violin Concerto No. 1 "Helle Nacht"Frederick K. Smith Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium Bloomsbury Publishing 2002 9780313012174 128 Kaija Saariaho – Nymphéa, for string quartet and electronicsTim Howell After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music Ashgate 2006 9780754651772 207 Hit singles A-ha – "The Living Daylights" (#1 Norway; #2 Ireland; #3 Denmark, Finland, Sweden)Pennanen Timo A-ha https://musiikkiarkisto.fi/oa/_tiedostot/julkaisut/sisaltaa-hitin.pdf Sisältää hitin – Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 fi 2nd Helsinki Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava 2021 11 978-952-7460-01-6 Hot Eyes (as Kirsten & Soren) – "Farvel og tak"https://danishcharts.dk/showitem.asp?interpret=Kirsten+%26+S%F8ren&titel=Farvel+og+tak&cat=s KIRSTEN & SØREN - FARVEL OG TAK (SONG) danishcharts.dk 28 May 2025 Tapani Kansa – "Hopeinen Kuu"Kuka kukin on: Who's who in Finland Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava 2005 352 På Slaget 12 – "Hjem til Århus" (#13 Denmark)https://danishcharts.dk/showinterpret.asp?interpret=P%E5+Slaget+12 PÅ SLAGET 12 - HJEM TIL ÅRHUS (SONG) danishcharts.dk 27 May 2025 Kasper Winding & Lars Muhl – "Sjæl I Flammer2 (#1 Denmark)May 2025 Film and television music Stefan Nilsson – Pelle the ConquerorMette Hjort Ib Bondebjerg The Danish directors: dialogues on a contemporary national cinema Intellect 2001 9781841500355 183 Per Nørgård – Babette's FeastJulian Baggini Babette's Feast Bloomsbury Academic 2020 9781911239673 86 Eurovision Song Contest Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 Births 29 October – Tove Lo, Swedish singer-songwriterMay 2025 Deaths 25 January – Øivind Bergh, Norwegian violinist and orchestral leader (born 1909)https://nbl.snl.no/%C3%98ivind_Bergh Øivind Bergh no Grøndahl Carl Henrik Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Henriksen, Petter Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo 2009-02-13 27 March 2017 18 March – Kari Diesen, Norwegian actor and singer (born 1914)https://nbl.snl.no/Kari_Diesen Kari Diesen Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Svend Erik Løken Larsen Helle, Knut Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo no 2009-02-13 23 April 2017 28 April – Åke Uddén, Swedish violist, conductor and composer (born 1903)https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/eklund-hans Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Eklund, Hans Nicolas Slonimsky Laura Kuhn Dennis McIntire 2001 13 May – Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (born 1899)https://www.hf.uio.no/imv/forskning/prosjekter/norgesmusikk/musikkhistarkiv/hurum/amundsen_s.html SIGNE AMUNDSEN (Finsland) (1899-1987) Norsk Operahistorie 22 November 2003 24 February 2025 no 9 September – Gunnar de Frumerie, Swedish pianist and composer (born 1908)David Mason Greene Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers Doubleday 1985 9780385142786 1371 12 November – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (born 1937)May 2025 13 November – Aage Samuelsen, Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer (born 1915)https://snl.no/Aage_Samuelsen Aage Samuelsen no Store Norske Leksikon Henriksen, Petter Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo 2013-02-25 27 March 2017 2 December – Trygve Henrik Hoff, Norwegian singer, composer, songwriter, and writer (born 1938)https://nbl.snl.no/Trygve_Hoff Trygve Hoff no Harr Karl Erik Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Henriksen, Petter Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo 2009-02-13 30 March 2017 References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music