1983 in Nordic music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Nordic music in 1983.

Events

14 March Ã¢ÂÂ Swedish band Europe release their first album, Europe, on Hot Records.
30 May Ã¢ÂÂ Former ABBA singer Agnetha FÃÂ¤ltskog releases her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me.
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25-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen replaces Michael Tilson Thomas as conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra when the latter is taken ill just before a performance. Salonen immediately emerges from obscurity. In the same year he co-founds the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland.
Per NÃÂ¸rgÃÂ¥rd's opera-ballet Siddhartha, with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premiÃÂ¨red at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet.

ABBA Ã¢ÂÂ "Thank You for the Music" (re-release; #2 South Africa; #7 Argentina)
Kikki Danielsson Ã¢ÂÂ "VarfÃÂ¶r ÃÂ¤r kÃÂ¤rleken rÃÂ¶d?"
Electric Banana Band Ã¢ÂÂ "Bananknotakt av tredje graden" (#7 Sweden)
Europe Ã¢ÂÂ "Seven Doors Hotel" (#8 Sweden)
Carola HÃÂ¤ggkvist Ã¢ÂÂ "FrÃÂ¤mling" (#1 Denmark, Norway; #5 Sweden; #6 Finland)
Tomas Ledin Ã¢ÂÂ "What Are You Doing Tonight?"(#8 Sweden)
Jahn Teigen Ã¢ÂÂ "" (#2 Norway)
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21 May Ã¢ÂÂ Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922)
16 October Ã¢ÂÂ ÃÂivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903)
29 October Ã¢ÂÂ , Swedish composer (born 1902)