1983 in Scandinavian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 1983.

Events

• 14 March – Swedish band Europe release their first album, Europe , on Hot Records. ^[1]
• 30 May – Former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog releases her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me . ^[2]
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  • 25-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen replaces Michael Tilson Thomas as conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra when the latter is taken ill just before a performance. Salonen immediately emerges from obscurity. ^[3] In the same year he co-founds the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland. ^[4]
  • Per Nørgård's opera-ballet Siddhartha , with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premièred at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. ^[5]
  • Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet. ^[6]

New works

• Magnus Lindberg
  • Ablauf ^[7]
  • Zona ^[8]
• Per Nørgård – Det guddommelige Tivoli (The Divine Circus) (opera) ^[9]

Hit singles

• ABBA – "Thank You for the Music" (re-release; #2 South Africa; #7 Argentina) ^[10]
• Kikki Danielsson – "Varför är kärleken röd?" ^[11]
• Electric Banana Band – "Bananknotakt av tredje graden" (#7 Sweden) ^[12]
• Europe – "Seven Doors Hotel" (#8 Sweden) ^[13]
• Carola Häggkvist – "Främling" (#1 Denmark, Norway; #5 Sweden; #6 Finland) ^[14]
• Tomas Ledin – "What Are You Doing Tonight?"(#8 Sweden) ^[15]
• Jahn Teigen – "Do re mi" (#2 Norway) ^[16]
• Yö – "Likaiset legendat I" ^[17]

Eurovision Song Contest

• Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
• Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
• Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983

Film and television music

• Geir Bøhren & Bent Åserud – Hockeyfeber ^[18]
• Gunner Møller Pedersen – Skønheden og udyret ^[19]

Births

• 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singer ^[20]

Deaths

• 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer (born 1922) ^[21]
• 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer (born 1896) ^[22]
• 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor (born 1903) ^[23]
• 29 October – Sten Broman, Swedish composer (born 1902) ^[24]

See also

• 1983 in Denmark
• 1983 in Iceland
• 1983 in Norwegian music
• 1983 in Sweden

References

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3. Michael Wroe (27 January 2007). "LA variation". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
4. "Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras". Archived from the original on 16 August 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
5. Per Nørgård. "Play for the Expected One" (PDF). img.kb.dk. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
6. Lovén, Lars (15 September 2016). "Imperiet Biography". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
7. "Ablauf". Percussions de Strasbourg. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
8. Magnus Lindberg (January 1985). "Magnus Lindberg: A voice from the 1980s". Finnish Music Quarterly. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
9. Berit I. Brown (1997). Nordic Experiences: Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures. p. 20.
10. "Cash Box - International Best Sellers" (PDF). Cashbox . 17 May 1980. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
11. "cona Pop gjorde slut i baktakt". Goteborgs Posten. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
12. "ELECTRIC BANANA BAND - BANANKNOTAKT AV TREDJE GRADEN (SONG)". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
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15. "SVERIGETOPPLISTAN - SINGLES TOP 100 1983-05-31". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
16. "VG-lista for 'Adieu'". VG Nett. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
17. Timo Pennanen (2021). 1000 listan kirja: Suomen hittihistoria 1960-2020 tuhantena Top 12 -listana ja visailuna. BoD Finnland. p. 31. ISBN   9789528048893.
18. Lars Thomas Braaten (1995). Filmen i Norge. Ad Notam Gyldendal. p. 395.
19. Piil, Morten (2003). Danske filmskuespillere: 525 portrætter (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. p. 21. ISBN   978-87-02-02104-2 . Retrieved 11 June 2021.
20. "Vilka svenska kändisar har gästat Skavlan?". www.ratsit.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 16 January 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
21. Elef Nesheim. "Finn Mortensen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
22. "De onde lo og de gode græd" (in Danish). DMT. Retrieved 21 June 2025.
23. Vollsnes, Arvid O. (22 August 2013). "Øivin Fjeldstad". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget . Retrieved 25 March 2017.
24. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1996. p. 110. ISBN   9780674372993.