1954 in Nordic music

The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1954 in Nordic music.

Events

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• Einojuhani Rautavaara wins the Thor Johnson Brass Composition Award for his composition A Requiem in Our Time. Another Finnish composer, Usko Meriläinen, wins second place in the same competition with his Partita for Brass.
• Geirr Tveitt begins publishing his collection of Hardanger folk tunes as a suite.
• Uuno Klami finishes re-writing his Violin Concerto, the original manuscript of which was lost in 1944.

New works

• Carl-Olof Anderberg – Musical vignettes for Charlotte Löwensköld
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• Lille Bror Söderlundh – Incidental music for Mariana Pineda

Popular music

• Thorbjørn Egner – "" (also translated from Norwegian into Finnish as "Hottentottilaulu" by Jukka Virtanen)

Film music

• Egon Kjerrman – En natt pÃ¥ Glimmingehus
• Egil Monn-Iversen – Kasserer Jensen
• Lille Bror Söderlundh – Storm over Tjurö
• Jules Sylvain – Dans pÃ¥ rosor

Musical films

• I rök och dans, with music by Povel Ramel, Charles Redland and Lille Bror Söderlundh

Births

• 14 January – Gunnar Andreas Berg, Norwegian guitarist, music teacher, and record label manager
• 13 April – Niels "Noller" Olsen, of Denmark's Olsen Brothers
• 27 April – Heikki Silvennoinen, Finnish musician and actor (died 2024)
• 31 May – Anders Hillborg, Swedish composer
• 12 June – Jesper Lundgaard, Danish jazz musician and composer
• 11 December – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic heavy metal musician

Deaths

• 21 January – Per Reidarson, Norwegian composer and music critic (born 1879)
• 6 October – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (born 1876)

See also

• 1954 in Denmark

• 1954 in Iceland
• 1954 in Norwegian music
• 1954 in Sweden

References