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The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1947 in Norwegian music .
Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pilgrims from all over Europe coming to visit St Olaf's grave in Trondheim.
Edvard Fliflet Bræin was a Norwegian composer and conductor. He is best remembered for the composition Ut mot havet and the opera Anne Pedersdotter.
Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway. At the end of the first quarter of 2018, the municipality's population was 280,216, and the Bergen metropolitan region has about 420,000 inhabitants. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers 465 square kilometres (180 sq mi) and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden, 'the city fjord', and the city is surrounded by mountains; Bergen is known as the 'city of seven mountains'. Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland, and consists of eight boroughs: Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad, and Åsane.
Per Kvist was the artist name of Vidar Wexelsen, a Norwegian revue writer, entertainer, stage actor, film actor and children's writer.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1890 in Norwegian music.
Peder Steenberg was a Norwegian organist and composer from Nedre Eiker, best known for his church music.
Ole Paus is a Norwegian troubadour in the Swedish-Norwegian ballad tradition, an author, a poet, and an actor. He is widely considered one of Norway's most popular singer-songwriters. He has been described as the Norwegian counterpart of Bob Dylan and as the "voice of the nation."
Wenche Synnøve Myhre, in some countries known as Wencke Myhre, is a Norwegian singer and actress who has had a great number of hit songs since the 1960s in the Norwegian, Danish, German as well as the Swedish markets and languages.
Øystein Dolmen, also known as Knutsen, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter best known for being one half of the duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, alongside Gustav Lorentzen ("Ludvigsen"). Knutsen & Ludvigsen was a humorous duo whose albums were primarily intended for children, but also became popular with more mature audiences.
Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist who is also active in classical music and world music.
Aage Kvalbein is a Norwegian cellist and a professor in cello at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He is one of the most well-renowned musicians in Norway, both as a soloist, chamber musician and as a pedagogue.
The Norwegian Academy of Music is a music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the country's highest level of music education. As a university college, it offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Throughout the years the Academy has educated many of Norway's most renowned musicians.
Gustav Lorentzen, also known by his stage name Ludvigsen, was a Norwegian singer-songwriter, best known from being half of the successful duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, alongside Øystein "Knutsen" Dolmen. He went solo in 1986, winning four Spellemann awards and one nomination for his 5 albums.
Halvard Magne Kausland was a Norwegian jazz guitarist and civil servant.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1947.
Ludvigsen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2010 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1987 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1984 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1981 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1976 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1975 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1968 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1961 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1957 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1951 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1945 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1924 in Norwegian music.
Edvard Bræin was a Norwegian organist, composer, and orchestra conductor, the father of the composer Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1924–76).
