1983 in Nordic music
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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.[1]
- 30 May – Former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog releases her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me.[2]
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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.[3] In the same year he co-founds the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland.[4]
- Per Nørgård's opera-ballet Siddhartha, with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premièred at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.[5]
- Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet.[6]
New works
- Magnus Lindberg
- Per Nørgård – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus) (opera)[9]
Hit singles
- ABBA – "Thank You for the Music" (re-release; #2 South Africa; #7 Argentina)[10]
- Kikki Danielsson – "Varför är kärleken röd?"[11]
- Electric Banana Band – "Bananknotakt av tredje graden" (#7 Sweden)[12]
- Europe – "Seven Doors Hotel" (#8 Sweden)[13]
- Carola Häggkvist – "Främling" (#1 Denmark, Norway; #5 Sweden; #6 Finland)[14]
- Tomas Ledin – "What Are You Doing Tonight?"(#8 Sweden)[15]
- Jahn Teigen – "Do re mi" (#2 Norway)[16]
- Yö – "Likaiset legendat I"[17]
Eurovision Song Contest
Film and television music
Births
- 27 January – John Lundvik, British-born Swedish singer-songwriter[21]
- 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singer[22]
Deaths
- 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922)[23]
- 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer (born 1896)[24]
- 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903)[25]
- 29 October – Sten Broman, Swedish composer (born 1902)[26]