1939 in Nordic music

The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1939 in Nordic music.

Events

• 1 January – Jean Sibelius conducts his orchestral version of Andante festivo in a live broadcast to the New York World's Fair.
• 17 June – The earliest surviving recording of the "Säkkijärven polkka", a folk song made popular by Finnish accordionist Viljo "Vili" Vesterinen is made at the German school in Helsinki, with former members of the Dallapé Orchestra.
• unknown date – Eric Bengtson ceases to conduct the Svensk Filmindustri orkestern and becomes principal conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra.

New works

• John Fernström – A Chinese Rhapsody
• Hilding Rosenberg – String Quartet No. 4

Popular music

• Adolf Kristoffer Nielsen & Holger Sinding – ""
• Nils "Jokern" Perne och Sven Paddock – ""

Film music

• Nathan Görling – Kalle pÃ¥ SpÃ¥ngen
• Adolf Kristoffer Nielsen – Gjest Baardsen, starring Alfred Maurstad
• Jules Sylvain – Emilie Högquist

Births

• 21 March – Christer Boustedt, Swedish saxophonist and actor (died 1986)
• 13 May – Kari Løvaas, Norwegian operatic soprano (died 2025)
• 22 June – Heikki Sarmanto, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
• 9 August
• Odd Børre, Norwegian singer (died 2023)
• Ove Stokstad, Norwegian saxophonist (died 2018)
• 18 August – Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and singer (died 2008)

Deaths

• 11 February – Gustav Fredrik Lange, Norwegian violinist, composer and music teacher (born 1861)
• 3 May – Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen, Danish composer and music theorist (born 1855)
• 10 May – Sigfús Einarsson, Icelandic organist and composer (born 1877)
• 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind Danish pianist, organist and composer (born 1874)
• 3 August – August Enna, Danish composer (born 1859)
• 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, Danish violinist, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1876)

See also

• 1939 in Denmark

• 1939 in Iceland
• 1939 in Norwegian music
• 1939 in Sweden

References