1954 in Nordic music
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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.[1] Another Finnish composer, Usko Meriläinen, wins second place in the same competition with his Partita for Brass.[2]
- Geirr Tveitt begins publishing his collection of Hardanger folk tunes as a suite.[3]
- Uuno Klami finishes re-writing his Violin Concerto, the original manuscript of which was lost in 1944.[4]
New works
- Carl-Olof Anderberg – Musical vignettes for Charlotte Löwensköld[5]
- Olallo Morales – Festspel[6]
- Lille Bror Söderlundh – Incidental music for Mariana Pineda[7]
Popular music
- Thorbjørn Egner – "Visen om vesle Hoa" (also translated from Norwegian into Finnish as "Hottentottilaulu" by Jukka Virtanen)[8]
Film music
Musical films
- I rök och dans, with music by Povel Ramel, Charles Redland and Lille Bror Söderlundh[13]
Births
- 14 January – Gunnar Andreas Berg, Norwegian guitarist, music teacher, and record label manager[14]
- 13 April – Niels "Noller" Olsen, of Denmark's Olsen Brothers[15]
- 27 April – Heikki Silvennoinen, Finnish musician and actor (died 2024)[16]
- 31 May – Anders Hillborg, Swedish composer[17]
- 12 June – Jesper Lundgaard, Danish jazz musician and composer[18]
- 11 December – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic heavy metal musician[19]
Deaths
- 21 January – Per Reidarson, Norwegian composer and music critic (born 1879)[20]
- 6 October – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (born 1876)[21]