1970 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 1970.

Events

• 11 March – At the 12th Annual Grammy Awards presented in the United States, Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen is co-nominated in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category, for Violin Summit , on which he performs with Stéphane Grappelli and others. ^[1]
• 21 March – The 15th Eurovision Song Contest is held in Dublin, and is won by Ireland. Finland, Norway and Sweden all boycott the contest. ^[2]

New works

• Ulf Grahn – Calling ^[3]
• Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 2 ^[4]
• Allan Pettersson – Symphony No. 9 ^[5]
• Dag Wirén – String Quartet no. 5 ^[6]

Popular music

• Jan Johansson – "Här kommer Pippi Långstrump" (#1 Denmark), recorded by Inger Nilsson ^[7]
• Hootenanny Singers – "Omkring Tiggarn Från Luossa" ^[8]

Hit albums

• Made in Sweden – Made in England ^[9]

Recordings

• Svein Finnerud Trio – Plastic Sun ^[10]

Film and television music

• Sven Gyldmark – Hurra for de blå husarer ^[11]
• Bengt-Arne Wallin – Ann och Eve - de erotiska ^[12]

Musical films

• Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven , with music by Georg Riedel & Jan Johansson
• Song of Norway , based on music by Edvard Grieg, starring Toralv Maurstad and Christina Schollin ^[13]

Births

• 8 February – Lotta Wennäkoski, Finnish composer ^[14]
• 28 February – Linda Brava, Finnish violinist ^[15]
• 11 April – Whigfield (Sannie Charlotte Carlson), Danish singer ^[16]

Deaths

• 12 April – Kerstin Thorborg, Swedish opera singer (born 1896) ^[17]
• 15 August – Karl Andersen, Norwegian cellist and composer ^[18]
• 2 October – Bo Linde, Swedish composer (born 1933) ^[19]

See also

• 1970 in Denmark
• 1970 in Iceland
• 1970 in Norwegian music
• 1970 in Sweden

References

1. "1969 GRAMMY Winners | 12th Annual GRAMMY Awards". The Recording Academy. 11 March 1970. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
2. Dean Vuletic (2019). Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 84. ISBN   9781350107397.
3. "Calling". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
4. "Symfoni nr. 2 (1970)". IRCAM. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
5. Olsson, Per-Henning (2013). Pettersson: Symphony No. 9 (PDF) (booklet). Christian Lindberg and Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. Åkersberga: BIS-2038. pp. 2–7. OCLC   995556946.
6. "String Quartet no. 5". Swedish Musical Heritage. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
7. The Encyclopedia of Best Films. Bloomsbury. 2019. p. 1646. ISBN   9781538134146.
8. Malmio, Kristina; Kurikka, Kaisa (2019). Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality. Springer International Publishing. p. 191. ISBN   9783030233525.
9. "Made in England". Prog Archives. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
10. Chris May (11 April 2018). "Svein Finnerud Trio: Plastic Sun". All About Jazz. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
11. "Hurra for de blå husarer". Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
12. "Ann and Eve (1970)". MUBI. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
13. "Cinerama Holiday". Daily Variety . 6 February 1970. p. 2.
14. Paavilainen, Ulla, ed. (2014). Kuka kukin on: Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 2015[Who’s Who in Finland, 2015] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. p. 993. ISBN   978-951-1-28228-0.
15. "Lampenius, Linda". Uppslagsverket Finland. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
16. Stan Jeffries (2003). Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 222. ISBN   9780313315473.
17. "KERSTIN THORBORG OF THE MET WAS 73". New York Times. 30 May 1970. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
18. Andersen, Rune J. (29 December 2013). "Karl August Andersen". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
19. Stig Jacobsson, Ulf Jonsson (1998). Bo Linde: Manniskan, Kritikern, Verket. pp. 72, 96.