1903 in Nordic music

Events

• 2 May – Composer Edvard Grieg, in Paris, becomes the first Norwegian to make a gramophone record.
• 25 November – Swedish soprano Olive Fremstad (Anna Olivia Rundquist) makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, United States, as Sieglinde in Die Walküre.

New works

• Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (Midsommarvaka)
• Carl Nielsen – Helios Overture
• Sigurd Lie – Symfoni i a-moll
• Jean Sibelius – Kuolema

Births

• 18 April – Lulu Ziegler, Danish actress and singer (died 1973)
• 25 April – Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian violinist and composer (died 1984)
• 28 April – Egil Rasmussen, Norwegian author, literature critic and pianist (died 1964).
• 2 May – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian orchestra conductor, violinist, and conducted the Oslo Philharmonic (died 1983).
• 5 August – Otto Lington, Danish violinist, jazz bandleader and composer (died 1903)
• 17 August – Bjarne Amdahl, Norwegian pianist, composer and orchestra conductor (died 1968).
• 29 September – Karl Andersen, solo cellist for the Oslo Philharmonic (died 1970)
• 13 October – Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, Danish organist and composer (died 1986)
• 30 October – Leif Rustad, Norwegian cellist and radio pioneer (died 1976)

Deaths

• 24 July – Adolf Thomsen (50), organist and composer
• 27 July – Lina Sandell (71), Swedish hymn writer (born 1832)
• 27 October – Erika Nissen (58), pianist

See also

• 1903 in Norway
• 1903 in Sweden

References