Bent Sørensen is a Danish composer. He won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2018 for L'isola della Città (2016).
Ibolyka Astrid Maria Varnay was a Swedish-born American dramatic soprano of Hungarian descent. She spent most of her career in the United States and Germany. She was one of the leading Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her generation. Her voice on record is readily recognisable by its fiery tone and seemingly limitless upper register.
The Four Last Songs, Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are – with the exception of the song "Malven" (Mallows), composed later the same year – the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84.
Edwin McArthur was an American classical music conductor, pianist and accompanist. From 1935 until his retirement in 1955 he was the usual accompanist of the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.
Alois Pernerstorfer was an Austrian bass-baritone
Events in the year 1962 in Norway.
Karin Branzell was a Swedish operatic contralto, who had a prominent career at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and in Europe. Her very wide range enabled her to sing both contralto roles and the occasional soprano role. She was particularly noted for her singing of the music of Richard Wagner, in roles such as Ortrud (Lohengrin), Venus (Tannhäuser), Erda, Brangäne, and Brunnhilde. She was considered on a par with Margarete Klose and Kerstin Thorborg as a Wagnerian contralto. Amneris (Aida), Dalila, Herodias (Salome), and Clytemnestra (Elektra) were among her other renowned roles.
Constance Shacklock OBE (1913–1999) was an English contralto. After more than a decade of roles with the Covent Garden Opera Company, with other companies and on the concert stage, Shacklock performed for six years in The Sound of Music in London as the Mother Abbess. She taught singing at the Royal Academy of Music from 1968 to 1978.
Anne Karoline Frogner is a Norwegian filmmaker, photographer, writer and lecturer. She is considered one of Norway's foremost documentary filmmakers and is a well known stills photographer for the image agency Samfoto. She runs the production company Integritet Film AS and has written several books. Through her films she has proven an evident humanistic point of view, indicated a broad commitment to human rights and decided to promote controversial issues that often affect politically difficult issues. In 1990 she was the initiator for the establishment of a children's art centre in Betlehem. Because of her work she was appointed as a Government scholar in the State budget of Norway of 2014.
Michael "Mikkel" Flagstad was a Norwegian jazz musician (saxophone), son of the cellist Ole Flagstad and nephew of the pianist Lasse Flagstad, the singer Karen-Marie Flagstad and opera singer Kirsten Flagstad. His paternal grandparents were the violinist Michael Flagstad and the pianist, organist, and accompanist Maja Flagstad. He was known for his cool jazz–inspired style and as a musician that frequented the Hotel Viking in Oslo.
Michael Flagstad was a Norwegian musician and conductor from Hamar.
Karen-Marie Flagstad was a Norwegian soprano opera singer.
Beate Asserson Saxlund was a Norwegian mezzo-soprano opera singer.
Pavle Medaković is a Serbian conductor.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1962 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1930 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1896 in Norwegian music.
