1882 in Nordic music
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The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1882 in Nordic music.
Events
- Autumn â Iver Holter takes over from Edvard Grieg as conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway.[1]
- unknown date
- Martin Wegelius establishes the Helsingfors Musikinstitut, the forerunner of the Sibelius Academy.[2]
- Finnish composer Robert Kajanus founds the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Scandinavia's first permanent professional orchestra.[3]
- Norwegian cellist and composer Anton Jörgen Andersen becomes a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien).[4]
- Danish flautist and composer Joachim Andersen co-founds the Berlin Philharmonic with 53 other musicians.[5]
New works
- Niels Gade â Psyche[6]
- Johan Svendsen â Polonaise[7]
- Karl Valentin â "Erste Liebe" from à tta sÃ¥nger ur Fahrendes Volk (Eight songs from Fahrendes Volk), with words by Arthur Fitger, translated into Swedish by Gustaf Lagercrantz[8]
Births
- 11 February
- Arne Bjørndal, Norwegian composer and painter (died 1965)[9]
- Paul von Klenau, Danish composer (died 1946)[10]
- 14 June â Anna Karolina Larsson (Lena Larsson), Swedish traditional folk singer (died 1967)[11]
- 17 July â Christian Leden, Norwegian ethno-musicologist and composer (died 1957).[12]
- 14 September â Harald Fryklöf, Swedish composer and teacher (died 1919)[13]
- 21 September â Alf Hurum, Norwegian composer and painter (died 1972).[14]
Deaths
- 22 October â Oscar Ahnfelt, Swedish composer of hymn-tunes, 69[15]
- 29 December â Josabeth Sjöberg, Swedish painter, composer and music teacher, 70[16]