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1893
1893 Nordic music
The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1893 in Nordic music.
Events
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Jean Sibelius begins work on his Lemminkäinen Suite.Elias Lönnrot The Kalevala Appendix OUP Oxford 2008 9780191637728
Swedish poet and composer Gunnar Wennerberg is elected to the upper house of the Riksdag.Wennerberg, Gunnar 28 519 Edmund Gosse Edmund Gosse 1
Gustaf Hägg is permanently appointed to the position of organist at Klara Church, Stockholm.https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/hagg-gustaf/ Gustaf Hägg Swedish Musical Heritage 17 February 2025
New works
Gustaf Hägg – La Coquette: Valse de salon, Op. 10https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/tonsattare/hagg-gustaf/SMH-W4510-La_Coquette_Valse_de_salon La Coquette: Valse de salon Swedish Musical Heritage 17 February 2025
Johan Halvorsen – Entry March of the BoyarsSchwann Opus, Volume 11 Stereophile, Incorporated 1999 374
Jean Sibelius
6 Impromptus, Op. 5
Karelia SuiteLyle Watson The "Nationalism" of Sibelius The Musical Quarterly 13 4 617–629 1927 10.1093/mq/xiii.4.617
Piano Sonata in F majorLayton Robert Robert Layton (musicologist) Sibelius 4th (The Master Musicians Series) 1993 1965 New York Schirmer Books 0028713222 190–191
Sara Wennerberg-Reuter – Trio [for 2 violins and piano]https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/wennerberg-reuter-sara/SMH-W2311-Trio_for_2_violins_and_piano Trio [for 2 violins and piano] Swedish Musical Heritage 17 February 2025
Popular music
Alice Tegnér – "Gläns över sjö och strand"Alice Tegnér Sjung med oss, mamma! 2, 16 visor 1893 Skoglund
Births
4 July – Finn Bø, Norwegian songwriter (died 1962)https://nbl.snl.no/Finn_B%C3%B8 Finn Bø Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Svend Erik Løken Larsen Helle, Knut Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo no 13 February 2009 16 February 2025
28 July – Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (died 1952)David Mason Greene Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers Doubleday 1985 9780385142786 1220
13 December – Olav Gurvin, musicologist and academic (died 1974)https://nbl.snl.no/Olav_Gurvin Olav Gurvin Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Nils Grinde Knut Helle Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo no 13 February 2009 16 February 2025
Deaths
12 August – Christian Henrik Glass, Danish organist, pianist and composer (born 1821)Arthur Conan Doyle Waterloo S. French 1936 160
13 September – Carl Ludvig Gerlach, Danish opera singer and composer (born 1832)https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=carlludviggerlach Carl Ludvig Gerlach Gravsted 16 February 2025
4 December - Maria Westberg, Swedish ballerina (born 1853)https://runeberg.org/dbl/18/0439.html Runeberg project Maria Westberg 16 February 2025
See also
1893 in Denmark
1893 in Norwegian music
1893 in Sweden
1893 in Iceland
References
Nordic
Category:Years in Nordic music