1906 in Nordic music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1906 in Nordic music.

Events

• 11 November – Carl Nielsen's opera Maskarade, with a libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, is given its first performance at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen.
• 3 December – Hugo Alfvén's Symphony no. 3 in E major is performed for the first time in Gothenburg by the Gothenburg Orchestral Society, with the composer conducting.
• 6 December – The Oscarsteatern, one of Stockholm's premier private theatres, opens with a Swedish-language production of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Frihetsbröderna (Les brigands).
• 29 December – Jean Sibelius's symphonic tone poem Pohjola's Daughter is given its première in Saint Petersburg, with the composer conducting.
• unknown date – Sara Wennerberg-Reuter begins a 40-year tenure as organist at Sofia Church in Stockholm.

New works

• Hugo Alfvén – Fosterlandspsalm
• Edvard Grieg – 4 Psalms, Op. 74
• Erkki Melartin – Surullinen Puutarha, Op.52
• Carl Nielsen
• String Quartet No. 4 Op 44
• Maskarade, CNW 2
• Hr. Oluf han rider, CNW 7
• Fædrelandssang, CNW 288
• Jean Sibelius
• Pohjola's Daughter
• Belshazzar's Feast
• Emil Sjögren – Böndir skulu kluckara fa

Popular music

• "Krummavísa" (first published; passed down by folklorist Olafur Davidsson)

Births

• 21 January – Gunnar Johansen, Danish pianist and composer (died 1991)
• 2 May – Aulikki Rautawaara, Finnish operatic soprano (died 1990)
• 19 July – Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer and music critic (died 1979)
• 1 September – Aksel Schiøtz, Danish lieder singer (died 1975)
• 10 October – Leo Mathisen, Danish jazz musician, singer and bandleader (died 1969)

Deaths

• 22 March – Martin Wegelius, Finnish composer and musicologist (born 1846)
• 8 June – C. F. E. Horneman, Danish conductor, composer and music publisher (born 1840)
• 16 November – Wilhelmina Josephson, Swedish pianist (born 1816)

See also

• 1906 in Denmark
• 1906 in Norwegian music
• 1906 in Sweden

References