1896 in Nordic music

none February 2025 1896 1896 Nordic music The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1896 in Nordic music. Events 18 March – Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts a performance of his First Symphony in Dresden, resulting in the start of his international success.https://www.carlnielsen.dk/bio/#biography/symphonist-and-opera-composer.php Symphony and opera composer Carl Nielsen Society 20 February 2025 26 May – Jean Sibelius's choral work Hymn is premiered by an amateur choir at a memorial service in Helsinki.Review Hufvudstadsbladet 140 1896 3 New works Eyvind Alnæs – Symphony No. 1https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C2734 Eyvind Alnæs Hyperion Records 20 February 2025 August Enna – Aucassin og Nicolette (opera)Annals of Opera, 1597-1940 Rowman and Littlefield 1970 9780714537771 1941 Edvard Grieg Lyric Pieces, Book VIII, Op. 65Lyric Pieces, Op.65 (Grieg, Edvard) Lyric Pieces, Book VIII Symphonic DancesCategory:Grieg, Edvard https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Grieg,_Edvard ISMLP Andreas Hallén – Hexfällan (opera)https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/tonsattare/hallen-andreas/SMH-W3574-Hexfallan_Haxfallan_Witchs_trap__Walpurgisnacht Hexfällan (Häxfällan) [Witch's trap] / Walpurgisnacht Swedish Musical Heritage 20 February 2025 Johan Halvorsen Air norvégien, Op. 7 Vasantasena Carl Nielsen – Hymnus amoris (cantata) Jean Sibelius Lemminkäinen Suite The Maiden in the Tower Wilhelm Stenhammar – Excelsior!https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/stenhammar-wilhelm/SMH-W459-Excelsior Excelsior! Swedish Musical Heritage 20 February 2025 Popular music Sigurd Lie – "Sne (Snow)" (setting of poem by Helge Rode)Anna Hersey Scandinavian Song: A Guide to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Repertoire and Diction Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2016 9780810884540 349 Christian Sinding – "Frühlingsrauschen"6_Klavierst%C3%BCcke%2C_Op.32_%28Sinding%2C_Christian%29 Frühlingsrauschen Births 20 January – Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer (died 1979)Leonard Klein Steven Serafin Walter D. Glanze Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century Ungar 1981 566 26 July – Alfred Maurstad, Norwegian actor, director, singer and fiddle player (died 1967) https://snl.no/Mari_Maurstad Mari Maurstad Store norske leksikon Lillian Bikset 1 March 2018 3 November – Trygve Lindeman, Norwegian cellist and music teacher (died 1961)http://nbl.snl.no/Trygve_Lindeman Trygve Lindeman Norsk Biografisk Leksikon 20 February 2025 no 30 December – Hans Stenseth, Norwegian flautist (died 1994)http://hbr2.nr.no/hbrutvikling/hbr/index.php/person/PFd00120051994M11009A Historisk befolkningsregister - Hans Stenset no hbr2.nr.no 30 April 2017 24 April 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170424085637/http://hbr2.nr.no/hbrutvikling/hbr/index.php/person/PFd00120051994M11009A dead Deaths 1 August – Wilhelm Herman Barth, Danish musician and composer (born 1813) https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=wilhelmbarth Wilhelm H. Barth Gravsted 20 February 2025 da 21 February – Fritz Arlberg, Swedish operatic baritone and composer (born 1830)https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/arlberg-fritz/ Fritz Arlberg Swedish Musical Heritage 20 February 2025 13 December – Emma Dahl, Norwegian opera singer and composer (born 1819)Cecilie Dahm Kvinner komponerer: ni portretter av norske kvinnelige komponister i tiden 1840-1930 Solum Forlag no 19879788256004850 See also 1896 in Denmark 1896 in Norwegian music 1896 in Sweden References Nordic Category:Years in Nordic music