1901 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1901 in Scandinavian music.

Events

• 4 October – Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 3 receives its public première in the lesser hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion, Copenhagen. ^[1]

New works

• Hugo Alfvén – Skärgårdsbilder ^[2]
• Hakon Børresen – String Sextet opus 5 in G major ^[3]
• Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces , Book X ^[4]
• Ludvig Holm – Praeludium for organ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Jean Sibelius – Ten Pieces, Op. 24 ^[5]

Popular music

• Sigrid Sköldberg-Pettersson and Emmy Köhler – "Raska fötter springa tripp, tripp, tripp", published in Julklappen ^[6]

Births

• 4 January – Kari Aarvold Glaser, Norwegian pianist and music teacher (died 1972) ^[7]
• 17 March – Margit Rosengren, Swedish operetta singer (died 1952) ^[8]
• 14 June – Kjell Roikjer, Danish bassoonist and composer (died 1999) ^[9]
• 16 August – Olav Kielland, Norwegian conductor and composer (died 1985) ^[10]
• 8 October – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and music theorist (died 1977) ^[11]

Deaths

• 2 March – Albert Rubenson, Swedish violinist and composer (born 1826) ^[12]
• 11 April – Ivar Hallström, Swedish opera composer (born 1826) ^[13]
• 24 August – Gunnar Wennerberg, Swedish poet, politician and composer (born 1817) ^[14]

See also

• 1901 in Denmark
• 1901 in Norwegian music
• 1901 in Sweden

References

1. Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen. "Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E flat major" (PDF). Edition William Hansen. p. xxxviii. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
2. "Skärgårdsbilder Three piano pieces". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
3. "String Sextet". Editions Silver Trust. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
4. Hanspeter Krellmann (2008). Griegs lyrische Klavierstücke: Ein musikalischer Werkführer (in German). C.H. Beck.
5. Dahlström, Fabian [in Swedish] (2003). Jean Sibelius: Thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke[Jean Sibelius: A Thematic Bibliographic Index of His Works] (in German). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. p. 98. ISBN   3-7651-0333-0.
6. Anders Berglund, ed. (2021). Visor till gitarr: 300 Visor och skillingtryck (in Swedish). Books on Demand. p. 278. ISBN   9789180273992.
7. Godal, Anne Marit, ed. (14 February 2009). "Kari Marie Aarvold Glaser". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
8. Bohman, Nils Axel Eric; Dahl, Torsten; Hildebrand, Bengt, eds. (1948). "Rosengren, Margit Ingeborg". Svenska män och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok (in Swedish). Bonnier. p. 357. Retrieved 23 May 2021– via Project Runeberg.
9. "Kjell Maale Roikjer". KomponistBasen (in Danish). Dansk Komponist Forening. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
10. Trond Olav Svenson. "Olav Kielland'". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
11. Lysdahl, Anne Jorunn Kydland (13 February 2009). "Sigmund Groven Biography". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon . Kunnskapsforlaget . Retrieved 26 October 2014.
12. "Albert Rubenson (1826−1901)". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
13. A. Wiklund (1997). "Ivar Christian Hallström". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan.
14.  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.