Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."
Emmanuel Pahud is a Franco-Swiss flautist.
Ernst Toch was an Austrian composer of classical music and film scores. He sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music.
William Alwyn, , was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.
Arne Nordheim was a Norwegian composer. Nordheim received numerous awards for his compositions, and from 1982 lived in the Norwegian government's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. He was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1997. On 18 August 2006, Arne Nordheim received a doctor honoris causa degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He died at the age of 78 and was given a state funeral.
Bogusław Julien Schaeffer was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is a Norwegian orchestra based in Bergen. Its principal concert venue is the Grieg Hall.
Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher.
The International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council that offers broadcasting representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music. It is funded by contributions from participating national radio networks.
Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriessen composed in a musical idiom that revealed strong French influences. He was the brother of pianist and composer Willem Andriessen and the father of the composers Jurriaan Andriessen and Louis Andriessen and of the flautist Heleen Andriessen.
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
Ingvar Natanael Lidholm was a Swedish composer.
Aurèle Nicolet was a Swiss flautist. He was considered one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century.
Antonio Gino Bibalo was an Italian-Norwegian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music, primarily operas.
Maj Sønstevold born Lundén was a Swedish composer who lived and worked in Norway.
Alexandru Hrisanide was a Romanian pianist and composer who was a representative of late 20th century Romanian avant-garde. A Netherlands resident since 1974, he taught piano and composition at the Amsterdam and Tilburg Academies of Music. Hrisanide’s music achieves an original synthesis between archaic melos and modes on the one hand, and the accomplishments of the modern Viennese school on the other. He won the Lili Boulanger Foundation Prize in 1965.
Richard Aaker Trythall is an American and Italian composer and pianist of contemporary classical music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1928 in Norwegian music.
Alf Erling Kjellman was a Norwegian jazz musician, organizer and composer.
Trond Øyen was a Norwegian violinist from Vardø. He was recognized as one of Norway's leading violinists of his time.
