1943 in Nordic music

none July 2025 1943 1943 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1943 in Nordic music. Events March – Having made her last film appearance in Nazi Germany, still declining to take out German citizenship, Zarah Leander leaves Berlin for her native Sweden.Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich Robert Charles Reimer Camden House 2000 9781571131348 77 27 March – The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen stages the European première of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.Fjeldsøe, M. (2020). Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism: the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943. In D. Fanning, & E. Levi (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality (pp. 303-318). Routledge. 29 October – Uuno Klami's Violin Concerto is premièred in Helsinki, with Toivo Haapanen conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and soloist Anja Ignatius.Kalevi Aho Andrew Barnett Uuno Klami: Whirls, Act 1 / Violin Concerto / Suomenlinna Osmo Vänskä & Lahti Symphony Orchestra 1997 4–9 CD booklet BIS CD–696 https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/BI%200696 40569371 unknown date Danish pianist and composer Herman David Koppel leaves Denmark for Sweden with his Jewish family to avoid persecution by the Nazis.https://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/artists/herman-d-koppel Herman D. Koppel 15 March 2016 Dacapo 27 March 2019 In a diary entry, Jean Sibelius expresses regret at having signed the Aryan certificate.Sibelius, Jean Fabian Dahlström Dagbok 1909–1944 Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland Helsingfors 2005 978-951-583-125-5 sv In celebration of Edvard Grieg's centenary, Norway's far-right governing country, Nasjonal Samling, commissions a propaganda film.https://www.uib.no/en/griegresearch/118425/edvard-grieg-centennial-1943-%E2%80%93-propaganda-film-rediscovered Edvard Grieg Centennial 1943 – Propaganda Film Rediscovered Centre for Grieg Research 20 July 2025 New works Páll Ísólfsson – Veislan á Sólhaugum (The Feast at Solhaug) (incidental music)https://www.chandos.net/translate/CHSA5319 Ísólfsson / Viðar: Orchestral Works for the Stage Chandos 19 July 2025 Uuno Klami – Violin Concerto; later revised Paul von Klenau – String Quartet No. 2https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.2_(Klenau%2C_Paul_von) String Quartet No.2 (Klenau, Paul von) IMSLP 19 July 2025 Jón Leifshttps://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_J%C3%B3n_Leifs List of works by Jón Leifs IMSLP 19 July 2025 Íslendingaljóð 3 söngvar eftir Jónas Hallgrímsson Popular music Hugo Alfvén – "Herr Olof i älvornas dans"https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/tonsattare/alfven-hugo/SMH-W1998-Herr_Olof_i_alvornas_dans Herr Olof i älvornas dans Swedish Musical Heritage 19 July 2025 Anna-Lisa Frykman – "Julpolskan" (in Nu ska vi sjunga)http://www.lararnasnyheter.se/lararnas-tidning/2007/03/19/konsuppdelad-verklighet-nu-ska-vi-sjunga Könsuppdelad verklighet i ”Nu ska vi sjunga” 19 March 2007 Lararnas Nyheter 19 July 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20160623191433/http://www.lararnasnyheter.se/lararnas-tidning/2007/03/19/konsuppdelad-verklighet-nu-ska-vi-sjunga 2016-06-23 Film music Carl-Olof Anderberg & Kai Gullmar – SonjaJohn Sundholm Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema Scarecrow Press 2012 152 Nils-Eric Fougstedt – Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreiviQvist Per Olov Bagh Peter Von Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland https://books.google.com/books?id=rnpoR8VMUNoC&pg=PA244 25 July 2012 2000 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30377-7 244 Lars-Erik Larsson & Nathan Görling – Elvira MadiganTeddy Nyblom De nya herrarna: regissörer, litteratörer, traktörer och andra aktörer i nuets närbild Ocean 1945 sv 291 Poul Schierbeck – Vredens dagMilne Tom 1971 The Cinema of Carl Dreyer New York A. S. Barnes & Co. 125 Births 23 March – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish Sami artist, writer and musician (died 2001)Drysdale Helena December 3, 2001 Obituary: Nils-Aslak Valkeapää The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nilsaslak-valkeap-atilde-curren-atilde-curren-5366731.html 10 April – Bo Hansson, Swedish progressive rock musician (died 2010)http://hd.se/familj/2008/04/09/sagan-om-ringen-foeraendrade-bosse/ Musikern Bo Hansson 65 år HD.se sv 19 July 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20120507001852/http://hd.se/familj/2008/04/09/sagan-om-ringen-foeraendrade-bosse/ 2012-05-07 16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 2011)The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Virgin 1999 9781852277543 485 22 July – Hans Wärmling, Swedish musician and songwriter (died 1995)http://gravar.se/en/forsamling/frustuna-forsamling/frustuna-kyrkogards-minneslund/0/ml/hans-axel-warmling Hans Axel Wärmling Gravar.se 19 July 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20171025190333/http://gravar.se/en/forsamling/frustuna-forsamling/frustuna-kyrkogards-minneslund/0/ml/hans-axel-warmling 2017-10-25 28 August – Anne-Lise Berntsen, Norwegian soprano (died 2012)Anne-Lise Berntsen Norsk biografisk leksikon Kjell Hillveg Helle, Knut Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo https://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Anne-Lise_Berntsen/utdypning Norwegian 8 April 2013 Deaths 1 April – Anders Hovden, Norwegian classical pianist, composer and radio personality (born 1860)https://nbl.snl.no/Anders_Hovden Anders Hovden Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Hallgeir Elstad Helle, Knut Knut Helle Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo no 2013-03-04 20 March 2017 26 May – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist and composer (born 1864)Julie Anne Sadie Rhian Samuel The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers London Macmillan 2006 457 978-0-33351-598-3 23 November – Torolf Voss, Norwegian conductor and composer (born 1877)Andersen Rune J. Torolf Voss Store norske leksikon 2013 https://snl.no/Torolf_Voss Norwegian 13 July 2020Den norske Komponist Torolf Voss Dansk musiktidsskrift 1943 18 265 See also 1943 in Denmark 1943 in Iceland 1943 in Norwegian music 1943 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music