1963 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1963 in Scandinavian music.

Events

• 23 March – The 8th Eurovision Song Contest is held in London and is won by Denmark, represented by husband-and-wife duo Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann Dansevise". Sweden, Finland and Norway finish in joint 13th and last place (with the Netherlands), all with no points. ^[1]
• 15 May – At the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, Bent Fabric wins the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song for "Alley Cat". ^[2]
• October – Thor's Hammer, also known as Hljómar or the Keflavik band, give their first public performance.

New works

• Aarre Merikanto – Juha (opera; composed in 1922, premiered in 1963) ^[3]
• Geirr Tveitt – A Hundred Hardanger Tunes arranged for orchestra ^[4]
• Erland von Koch – Drei Orchesterminiaturen ^[5]

Popular music

• Four Cats – "Suuret setelit" ^[6]
• Beppe Wolgers & Bobbie Ericsson – "En gång i Stockholm", performed by Monica Zetterlund ^[7]

New recordings

• Fred Åkerström – Fred Åkerström sjunger Ruben Nilson ^[8]
• Sven-Bertil Taube – Carl Michael Bellman, volume 2 ^[9]

Eurovision Song Contest

• Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963
• Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963

Film music

• Ulf Björlin – Kurragömma ^[10]
• Bo Nilsson – En söndag i september ^[11]
• Charles Redland – Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka ^[12]

Births

• 15 May – Mika Vainio, Finnish electronic musician (died 2017) ^[13]
• 26 December – Lars Ulrich, Danish heavy metal drummer ^[14]

Deaths

• 20 February – Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (born 1879) ^[15]
• 11 April – Arvid Gram Paulsen, Norwegian jazz saxophonist and trumpeter (born 1922) ^[16]

See also

• 1960s portal
• Music portal

• 1963 in Denmark
• 1963 in Iceland
• 1963 in Norwegian music
• 1963 in Sweden

References

1. "London 1963 – Scoreboard". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
2. "Grammy Awards 1963". Grammy. Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
3. "Juha". Schott Music. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
4. Storaas, Reidar (12 March 2009). "Geirr Tveitt". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
5. "Drei Orchesterminiaturen". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
6. "Diskografia 1960 - 2014". veikkotiitto.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 November 2025.
7. "Tribute to Monica". PER-OLOV KINDGREN MUSIC ONLINE. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
8. Peter Mosskin (2014). "Ruben Nilson". Fred Åkerström : ingenstans fri som en fågel: en biografi (in Swedish). Norstedts. ISBN   9789113057538.
9. "Carl Michael Bellman. Volym 2 / Sven-Bertil Taube". Svensk mediedatabas. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
10. "Kurragömma". MUBI. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
11. "A Sunday in September". Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
12. Jürgen Wölfe; Roland Löper (2003). Das grosse Lexikon der Filmkomponisten: die Magier der cineastischen Akustik, von Ennio Morricone bis Hans Zimmer (in German). Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. p. 421. ISBN   9783896022967.
13. Karemo, Tuomas (18 December 2017). "Mika Vainio – A Quiet Life". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 2 August 2019.
14. "Lars Ulrich". Biography . A&E Networks. 4 April 2014. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
15. William H. Rehrig (1991). The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music. Integrity Press. p. 267.
16. Bergh, Johs. "Arvid Gram Paulsen Biography". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 September 2013.