1983 in Nordic music

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

Events

• 14 March – Swedish band Europe release their first album, Europe, on Hot Records.
• 30 May – Former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog 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 NørgÃ¥rd's opera-ballet Siddhartha, with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premièred at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
• Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet.

New works

• Magnus Lindberg
• Ablauf
• Zona
• Per NørgÃ¥rd – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus) (opera)

Hit singles

• ABBA – "Thank You for the Music" (re-release; #2 South Africa; #7 Argentina)
• Kikki Danielsson – "Varför är kärleken röd?"
• Electric Banana Band – "Bananknotakt av tredje graden" (#7 Sweden)
• Europe – "Seven Doors Hotel" (#8 Sweden)
• Carola Häggkvist – "Främling" (#1 Denmark, Norway; #5 Sweden; #6 Finland)
• Tomas Ledin – "What Are You Doing Tonight?"(#8 Sweden)
• Jahn Teigen – "" (#2 Norway)
• Yö – ""

Eurovision Song Contest

• Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
• Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983

Film and television music

• Anders Berglund – TvÃ¥ killar och en tjej, featuring Björn Haugan
• Geir Bøhren & Bent Åserud – Hockeyfeber
• Gunner Møller Pedersen – Skønheden og udyret

Births

• 27 January – John Lundvik, British-born Swedish singer-songwriter
• 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singer

Deaths

• 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922)
• 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer (born 1896)
• 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903)
• 29 October – , Swedish composer (born 1902)

See also

• 1983 in Denmark

• 1983 in Iceland
• 1983 in Norwegian music
• 1983 in Sweden

References