1880 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1880 in Scandinavian music.

Events

• September – Edvard Grieg becomes artistic director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. ^[1]
• unknown date – Sextus Miskow first appears as a bass singer at the Danish Royal Theatre, playing Jacob in the opera Joseph (Josefog hans Brødre) by Étienne Méhul. ^[2]

New works

• Elfrida Andrée – Fem smärre tonbilder, Op. 7
• Niels Gade – Violin concerto in D minor ^[3]
• Edvard Grieg – 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34
• Robert Kajanus – 7 Songs from Tannhäuser, Op. 3
• Ludwig Norman – Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 58 ^[4]
• Emil Sjögren – Kullervon surumarssi (Kullervo's Funeral March), Op. 3

Births

• 29 April – Sigvart Høgh-Nilsen, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1919) ^[5]
• 8 June – Theodor Larsson, Swedish songwriter and comedian (died 1937) ^[6]
• 14 July – Gustav Fonandern, Swedish architect and singer (died 1960) ^[6]
• 21 October – Viking Eggeling, Swedish filmmaker, pioneer of visual music (died 1925) ^[7]

Deaths

• 14 February – Wilhelmina Enbom, Swedish opera singer, 75 ^[8]
• 9 May – Hermann Berens, German-born Swedish pianist and composer, 54 ^[9]
• 17 August – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer, 70 ^[10]
• 7 October – Fredrika Stenhammar, Swedish opera singer, 44 ^[11]
• 8 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, Norwegian clergyman, psalmist and poet, 78 ^[12]
• 8 November – Andreas Peter Berggreen, Danish organist and composer, 79 ^[13]

References

1. Finn Benestad; Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe (1993). Edvard Grieg, Chamber Music: Nationalism, Universality, Individuality. Scandinavian University Press. p. 112. ISBN   9788200216995.
2. Nils Schiørring (18 July 2011). "Sextus Miskow". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, Gyldendal. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
3. The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation. 1949. p. 462.
4. "Symphony no. 3". IMSLP. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
5. "Sigvart Høgh-Nilsen". Norsk biografi. 1909.
6. Tony Franzén; Lars Thelander; Vidar Vanberg (1998). Pathé : acoustic recordings in Scandinavia with historical survey and biographical data : a discography of recordings made and issued between 1901 and 1925 in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden by the Company Pathé Frères and its Scandinavian agents. T. Franzén, L. Thelander, V. Vanberg. p. 55. ISBN   9788291962009.
7. Louise O'Konor (1971). Viking Eggeling, 1880–1925, Artist and Filmmaker: Life and Work. Translated by Catherine G. Sundström; Anne Libby. Almqvist and Wiksell.
8. Steinrud, Marie. "Christina Wilhelmina Enbom". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
9. "Hermann Berens d.ä. (1826−1880)". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
10. Andersen, Rune J. (27 March 2016). "Ole Bull". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
11. Eva Öhrström (2020). "Fredrika Stenhammar". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon . Retrieved 5 February 2025.
12. "Magnus Brostrup Landstad". Encyclopedia Britannica . Oslo. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
13. J. A. Fuller-Maitland; George Grove (1895). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan. p. 545.