1954 in Nordic music

none September 2025 1954 1954 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1954 in Nordic music. Events unknown date Einojuhani Rautavaara wins the Thor Johnson Brass Composition Award for his composition A Requiem in Our Time. Johnston Blair http://www.allmusic.com/composition/a-requiem-in-our-time-for-brass-op-3-mc0002371866 Einojuhani Rautavaara / A Requiem in our Time, for brass, Op. 3 AllMusic 31 July 2016 Another Finnish composer, Usko Meriläinen, wins second place in the same competition with his Partita for Brass.https://core.musicfinland.fi/works/partita-for-brass Partita for Brass Music Finland Core 13 September 2025 Geirr Tveitt begins publishing his collection of Hardanger folk tunes as a suite.https://www.musikkarven.no/komponister/tveitt/verk/html-preview_hhsuite1.htm Hundrad hardingtonar for orkester, op. 151. Suite nr. 1, 1-15 Norwegian Musical Heritage Norwegian Academy of Music 25 July 2020 Uuno Klami finishes re-writing his Violin Concerto, the original manuscript of which was lost in 1944.Kimmo Korhonen Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Uuno Klami / Einar Englund: Violin Concertos Johannes Gustavsson & Oulu Symphony Orchestra 2016 3–8 CD booklet Ondine ODE 1278–2 https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/OD%201278 966451034 New works Carl-Olof Anderberg – Musical vignettes for Charlotte Löwensköldhttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/carl-olof-carl-olof/SMH-W4602-Musical_vignettes_sic_for_Charlotte_Lowenskold_Musikvinjetter_till_Cha Musical vignettes [sic] for Charlotte Löwensköld (Musikvinjetter till Charlotte Löwensköld) Swedish Musical Heritage 14 September 2025 Olallo Morales sv – Festspelhttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/morales-olallo/SMH-W7406-Festspel Festspel Swedish Musical Heritage 15 September 2025 Lille Bror Söderlundh – Incidental music for Mariana Pinedahttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/soderlundh-lille-bror/ Lille Bror Söderlundh (1912−1957) Swedish Musical Heritage 15 September 2025 Popular music Thorbjørn Egner – "Visen om vesle Hoa" (also translated from Norwegian into Finnish as "Hottentottilaulu" by Jukka Virtanen)Raimo Henriksson Rakkaimmat lastenlaulut: 150 koko perheen suosikkia (Valitut palat) 60 Brepols, Turnhout 1990 9518933146 Film music Egon Kjerrman – En natt på GlimmingehusPer Olov Qvist Peter von Bagh Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Greenwood Publishing Group 2000 124 Egil Monn-Iversen – Kasserer Jensenhttps://nbl.snl.no/Egil_Monn-Iversen Egil Monn-Iversen Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Svend Erik Løken Larsen 15 September 2025 Lille Bror Söderlundh – Storm over TjuröAlfred Krawc International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (from the beginnings to 1984) Saur 1986 569 Jules Sylvain – Dans på rosorPer Olov Qvist Peter von Bagh Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Greenwood Publishing Group 2000 44 Musical films I rök och dans, with music by Povel Ramel, Charles Redland and Lille Bror SöderlundhPer Olov Qvist Peter von Bagh Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Greenwood Publishing Group 2000 108 Births 14 January – Gunnar Andreas Berg, Norwegian guitarist, music teacher, and record label managerhttps://snl.no/Gunnar_Andreas_Berg Andreas Berg no Chris Monsen Store Norske Leksikon 2016-12-29 4 May 2017 13 April – Niels "Noller" Olsen, of Denmark's Olsen Brothershttps://www.eurovisionuniverse.com/encyclopedia/olsen-brothers/ Olsen Brothers Eurovision Universe 13 September 2025 27 April – Heikki Silvennoinen, Finnish musician and actor (died 2024)Seppänen Elina Heikki Silvennoinen ajoi kuolemaa edeltävänä iltana kotiin tv-ohjelman kuvauksista – Saara-tytär kertoo merkittävän tiedon viimeisistä hetkistä https://www.is.fi/tv-ja-elokuvat/art-2000010912224.html Ilta-Sanomat 18 December 2024 fi 18 December 2024 31 May – Anders Hillborg, Swedish composerhttps://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/hillborg-anders/ Anders Hillborg (1954-) Swedish Musical Heritage 14 September 2025 12 June – Jesper Lundgaard, Danish jazz musician and composerhttps://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/jesper-lundgaard Jesper Lundgaard – biography allaboutjazz 13 September 2025 live https://web.archive.org/web/20110605214941/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=11817 2011-06-05 11 December – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic heavy metal musicianhttps://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Gu%C3%B0laugur_Kristinn_%C3%93ttarsson/215154 Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson Metal Archives 13 September 2025 Deaths 21 January – Per Reidarson, Norwegian composer and music critic (born 1879)Stenseth Bodil Dahl, Hans Fredrik Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 Reidarson, Per http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/r/r1.html#reidarson-per 8 November 2008 1995 Cappelen Oslo dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100104075201/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/r/r1.html#reidarson-per 2010-01-04 6 October – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (born 1876)https://edition-s.dk/composers/hakon-borresen Hakon Børresen Edition S 13 September 2025 See also 1954 in Denmark 1954 in Iceland 1954 in Norwegian music 1954 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music