1983 in Nordic music

none June 2025 1983 1983 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Nordic music in 1983. Events 14 March – Swedish band Europe release their first album, Europe, on Hot Records.Europe - Europe Metal Forces August 1983 Reynolds Dave 1 22 https://www.scribd.com/doc/242575781/Metal-Forces-01-Autumn1983-pdf 3 July 2015 30 May – Former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog releases her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me.biblioteket Kungliga ARBETET 1983-04-23 https://tidningar.kb.se/tbddgpnvr25wx0r3/part/2/page/32?q=Agnetha%20heat 2024-12-29 Svenska tidningar sv unknown date 25-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen replaces Michael Tilson Thomas as conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra when the latter is taken ill just before a performance. Salonen immediately emerges from obscurity.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/27/classicalmusicandopera.music LA variation 27 January 2007 Michael Wroe The Guardian 21 June 2025 In the same year he co-founds the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland.http://www.sinfoniaorkesterit.fi/en/index.php?trg=member&id=55&q=&ord=cat Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras 1 October 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110816211331/http://www.sinfoniaorkesterit.fi/en/index.php?trg=member&id=55&q=&ord=cat 16 August 2011 Per Nørgård's opera-ballet Siddhartha, with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premièred at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.https://img.kb.dk//export/sites/kb_dk/da/nb/dcm/udgivelser/norgard/artikler/PlayForTheExpOne.1983.pdf Play for the Expected One Per Nørgård img.kb.dk 22 June 2025 Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet.https://www.allmusic.com/artist/imperiet-mn0000452300#biography Imperiet Biography Lovén Lars 15 September 2016 Allmusic https://web.archive.org/web/20230228232141/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/imperiet-mn0000452300#biography en 2024-01-24 28 February 2023 New works Magnus Lindberg Ablaufhttps://www.percussionsdestrasbourg.com/en/soixante-ans/lindberg-magnus-ablauf-2/ Ablauf Percussions de Strasbourg 22 June 2025 Zonahttps://www.fmq.fi/articles/magnus-lindberg-a-voice-from-the-1980s Magnus Lindberg: A voice from the 1980s Magnus Lindberg January 1985 Finnish Music Quarterly 22 June 2025 Per Nørgård – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus) (opera)Berit I. Brown Nordic Experiences: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures 1997 20 Hit singles ABBA – "Thank You for the Music" (re-release; #2 South Africa; #7 Argentina)https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1980/CB-1980-05-17.pdf Cash Box - International Best Sellers Cashbox 17 May 1980 26 July 2023 Kikki Danielsson – "Varför är kärleken röd?"https://www.gp.se/icona-pop-gjorde-slut-i-baktakt.261ab14f-7104-4786-bbb5-2e80ad04a8e6 cona Pop gjorde slut i baktakt Goteborgs Posten 21 June 2025 Electric Banana Band – "Bananknotakt av tredje graden" (#7 Sweden)https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Electric+Banana+Band&titel=Bananknotakt+av+tredje+graden&cat=s ELECTRIC BANANA BAND - BANANKNOTAKT AV TREDJE GRADEN (SONG) swedishcharts.com 22 June 2025 Europe – "Seven Doors Hotel" (#8 Sweden)https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Europe&titel=Seven+Doors+Hotel&cat=s Europe swedishcharts.com 22 June 2025 Carola Häggkvist – "Främling" (#1 Denmark, Norway; #5 Sweden; #6 Finland)https://sverigetopplistan.se/chart/215/?dspy=2025&dspp=1 Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 1 Sverigetopplistan sv 3 January 2025 Tomas Ledin – "What Are You Doing Tonight?"(#8 Sweden)https://swedishcharts.com/weekchart.asp?cat=s&year=1983&date=19830531 SVERIGETOPPLISTAN - SINGLES TOP 100 1983-05-31 swedishcharts.com 22 June 2025 Jahn Teigen – "Do re mi" (#2 Norway)https://lista.vg.no/artist/anita-skorgan-jahn-teigen/singel/adieu/3075 VG-lista for 'Adieu' 30 December 2016 VG Nett Yö – "Likaiset legendat I"Timo Pennanen 1000 listan kirja: Suomen hittihistoria 1960-2020 tuhantena Top 12 -listana ja visailuna BoD Finnland 2021 9789528048893 31 Eurovision Song Contest Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 Film and television music Anders Berglund – Två killar och en tjej, featuring Björn Hauganhttps://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=film&itemid=14556 Två killar och en tjej Svensk Filmdatabas 1 December 2025 Geir Bøhren & Bent Åserud – HockeyfeberLars Thomas Braaten 1995 Filmen i Norge Ad Notam Gyldendal 395 Gunner Møller Pedersen – Skønheden og udyretPiil Morten Morten Piil Danske filmskuespillere: 525 portrætter Gyldendal Copenhagen, Denmark 2003 978-87-02-02104-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=uTfvg7es7VQC&pg=PA21 Danish 11 June 2021 21 Births 27 January – John Lundvik, British-born Swedish singer-songwriterhttps://www.billboard.com/music/pop/john-lundvik-eurovision-too-late-for-love-8501802/ Sweden Sends John Lundvik to Eurovision with 'Too Late for Love' Fred Bronson 3 September 2019 Billboard 28 January 2026 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singerVilka svenska kändisar har gästat Skavlan? https://www.ratsit.se/info/omtalade/skavlan/ 15 July 2022 www.ratsit.se sv-se 16 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184814/https://www.ratsit.se/info/omtalade/skavlan/ live Deaths 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922)https://nbl.snl.no/Finn_Mortensen Finn Mortensen Elef Nesheim Norsk biografisk leksikon 21 June 2025 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer (born 1896)https://seismograf.org/dmt/58/01/de-onde-lo-og-de-gode-graed De onde lo og de gode græd Danish DMT 21 June 2025 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903)https://nbl.snl.no/%C3%98ivin_Fjeldstad Øivin Fjeldstad Norwegian Vollsnes Arvid O. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget 2013-08-22 2017-03-25 29 October – Sten Broman, Swedish composer (born 1902)The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1996 9780674372993 110 See also 1983 in Denmark 1983 in Iceland 1983 in Norwegian music 1983 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music