1893 in Scandinavian music

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The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1893 in Scandinavian music.

Events

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  • Jean Sibelius begins work on his Lemminkäinen Suite . ^[1]
  • Swedish poet and composer Gunnar Wennerberg is elected to the upper house of the Riksdag. ^[2]
  • Gustaf Hägg is permanently appointed to the position of organist at Klara Church, Stockholm. ^[3]

New works

• Gustaf Hägg – La Coquette: Valse de salon, Op. 10 ^[4]
• Johan Halvorsen – Entry March of the Boyars ^[5]
• Jean Sibelius
• Karelia Suite ^[6]
• Piano Sonata in F major ^[7]
• Sara Wennerberg-Reuter – Trio [for 2 violins and piano] ^[8]

Popular music

• Alice Tegnér – "Gläns över sjö och strand" ^[9]

Births

• 4 July – Finn Bø, Norwegian songwriter (died 1962) ^[10]
• 28 July – Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (died 1952) ^[11]
• 13 December – Olav Gurvin, musicologist and academic (died 1974) ^[12]

Deaths

• 12 August – Christian Henrik Glass, Danish organist, pianist and composer (born 1821) ^[13]
• 13 September – Carl Ludvig Gerlach, Danish opera singer and composer (born 1832) ^[14]
• 4 December - Maria Westberg, Swedish ballerina (born 1853) ^[15]

See also

• 1893 in Denmark
• 1893 in Norwegian music
• 1893 in Sweden

References

1. Elias Lönnrot (2008). "Appendix". The Kalevala. OUP Oxford. ISBN   9780191637728.
2.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Gosse, Edmund (1911). "Wennerberg, Gunnar". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 519.
3. "Gustaf Hägg". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
4. "La Coquette: Valse de salon". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
5. Schwann Opus, Volume 11. Stereophile, Incorporated. 1999. p. 374.
6. Lyle, Watson (1927). "The "Nationalism" of Sibelius". The Musical Quarterly. 13 (4): 617–629. doi:10.1093/mq/xiii.4.617.
7. Layton, Robert (1993) [1965]. Sibelius. (The Master Musicians Series) (4th ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. pp. 190–191. ISBN   0028713222.
8. "Trio [for 2 violins and piano]". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
9. Alice Tegnér (1893). Sjung med oss, mamma! 2, 16 visor. Skoglund.
10. Larsen, Svend Erik Løken (13 February 2009). "Finn Bø". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
11. David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers. Doubleday. p. 1220. ISBN   9780385142786.
12. Grinde, Nils (13 February 2009). "Olav Gurvin". In Knut Helle (ed.). Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
13. Arthur Conan Doyle (1936). Waterloo. S. French. p. 160.
14. "Carl Ludvig Gerlach". Gravsted. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
15. "Maria Westberg". Runeberg project. Retrieved 16 February 2025.