1922 in Nordic music

The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1922 in Nordic music.

Events

• 24 January – Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No. 5, in Copenhagen.
• 8 July – At Denmark's Third National Choral Festival, Nielsen's Fynsk Foraar (Springtime on Funen), with lyrics by the poet Aage Berntsen, is premièred at Odense's Kvæghal, conducted by Georg Høeberg.

New works

• Kurt Atterberg – Cello Concerto (final version)
• Carl Nielsen – Wind Quintet
• Jean Sibelius – Andante festivo

Popular music

• Adolf Wiklund – "En Solvisa"

Births

• 6 January – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian composer, music critic, and music teacher (died 1983).
• 18 May – Kai Winding, Danish-born jazz musician (died 1983)
• 1 June – Baron Povel Ramel, Swedish musician and entertainer (died 2007)
• 10 June – Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian composer (died 2012)
• 12 June – Leif Thybo, Danish organist and composer (died 2001)
• 30 June – Hanna-Marie Weydahl, Norwegian pianist (died 2016)
• 29 August – Rolf Ericson, Swedish jazztrumpeter and flugelhornist (died 1997)
• 4 October – Stan HasselgÃ¥rd, Swedish jazz clarinetist (died 1948)
• 27 October – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (died 1998)
• 6 November – Lars Edlund, Swedish organist, composer and music teacher (died 2013)

Deaths

• 22 February – Thorvald Lammers, Norwegian baritone, choral conductor and composer (born 1841)
• 15 March – Ika Peyron, Swedish pianist, organist and composer (born 1845)
• 2 July – Christian Sibelius, Finnish psychiatrist and amateur cellist, brother of the composer Sibelius (born 1869; pernicious anaemia)
• 26 October – Theodora Cormontan, Norwegian pianist, music publisher, and composer (born 1840)
• 1 November – Wilhelm Theodor Söderberg, Swedish composer and music teacher (born 1845)

See also

• 1922 in Denmark

• 1922 in Iceland
• 1922 in Norwegian music
• 1922 in Sweden

References