1910 in Nordic music

The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1910 in Nordic music.

Events

• January – Carl Nielsen attends the funeral of 30-year-old artist Oluf Hartmann, for which he writes At the Bier of a Young Artist.
• unknown date – Jean Sibelius revises his 1902 cantata The Origin of Fire.

New works

• Johan Amberg – Fantasiestücke, Op.12
• Erkki Melartin
• Nocturne, Op. 64 No. 1
• String Quartet No. 4
• Traumgesicht
• Oskar Merikanto – Kappaleet, Op. 73
• Carl Nielsen
• Hagbarth og Signe
• Paaske-Liljen (choral work)
• Jean Sibelius
• In Memoriam, Op. 59
• The Dryad

Popular music

• Alice Tegnér – "Sankt Hans"

Births

• 3 May – Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, Norwegian Hardanger fiddler and folk musician (died 1910)
• 24 May – Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Finnish conductor and composer (died 1961)
• 26 April – Erland von Koch, Swedish composer (died 2009)
• 14 August – Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk fiddler (died 1984)
• 27 August – Erkki Aaltonen, Finnish composer (died 1990)
• 14 September – Lasse Dahlquist, Swedish singer, songwriter and actor (died 1970)
• 12 October – Brita Bratland, Norwegian folk singer (died 1975)
• 14 November – Jens Book-Jenssen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (died 1999)

Deaths

• 18 February – Johanna Sundberg, Swedish ballerina (born 1828)
• 29 March – Fritz Andersen, Danish pianist, organist and composer (born 1829)

See also

• 1910 in Denmark
• 1910 in Norwegian music
• 1910 in Sweden

References