1983 in Scandinavian music
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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 1983.
Events
[edit]- 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]
- unknown date
- 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
[edit]- Magnus Lindberg
- Per Nørgård – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus) (opera)[9]
Hit singles
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Births
[edit]- 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singer[20]
Deaths
[edit]- 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922)[21]
- 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer (born 1896)[22]
- 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903)[23]
- 29 October – Sten Broman, Swedish composer (born 1902)[24]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Reynolds, Dave (August 1983). "Europe - Europe". Metal Forces (1): 22. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ biblioteket, Kungliga. "ARBETET 1983-04-23". Svenska tidningar (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2024.
- ^ Michael Wroe (27 January 2007). "LA variation". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ "Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras". Archived from the original on 16 August 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ Per Nørgård. "Play for the Expected One" (PDF). img.kb.dk. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Lovén, Lars (15 September 2016). "Imperiet Biography". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Ablauf". Percussions de Strasbourg. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Magnus Lindberg (January 1985). "Magnus Lindberg: A voice from the 1980s". Finnish Music Quarterly. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ Berit I. Brown (1997). Nordic Experiences: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures. p. 20.
- ^ "Cash Box - International Best Sellers" (PDF). Cashbox. 17 May 1980. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ "cona Pop gjorde slut i baktakt". Goteborgs Posten. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ "ELECTRIC BANANA BAND - BANANKNOTAKT AV TREDJE GRADEN (SONG)". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "Europe". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 1" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "SVERIGETOPPLISTAN - SINGLES TOP 100 1983-05-31". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
- ^ "VG-lista for 'Adieu'". VG Nett. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
- ^ Timo Pennanen (2021). 1000 listan kirja: Suomen hittihistoria 1960-2020 tuhantena Top 12 -listana ja visailuna. BoD Finnland. p. 31. ISBN 9789528048893.
- ^ Lars Thomas Braaten (1995). Filmen i Norge. Ad Notam Gyldendal. p. 395.
- ^ Piil, Morten (2003). Danske filmskuespillere: 525 portrætter (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. p. 21. ISBN 978-87-02-02104-2. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Vilka svenska kändisar har gästat Skavlan?". www.ratsit.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 16 January 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ^ Elef Nesheim. "Finn Mortensen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ "De onde lo og de gode græd" (in Danish). DMT. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ Vollsnes, Arvid O. (22 August 2013). "Øivin Fjeldstad". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1996. p. 110. ISBN 9780674372993.