The following is a list of notable events that occurred in the year 1880 in Nordic music.
Events
September – Edvard Grieg becomes artistic director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. unknown date – Sextus Miskow first appears as a bass singer at the Danish Royal Theatre, playing Jacob in the opera Joseph (Josef og hans Brødre) by Étienne Méhul.
New works Elfrida Andrée – Fem smärre tonbilder, Op. 7 Niels Gade – Violin concerto in D minor Edvard Grieg – 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34 Robert Kajanus – 7 Songs from Tannhäuser, Op. 3 Ludwig Norman – Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 58 Emil Sjögren – Kullervon surumarssi (Kullervo's Funeral March), Op. 3
Births 29 April – Sigvart Høgh-Nilsen, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1919) 8 June – Theodor Larsson, Swedish songwriter and comedian (died 1937) 14 July – Gustav Fonandern, Swedish architect and singer (died 1960) 21 October – Viking Eggeling, Swedish filmmaker, pioneer of visual music (died 1925)
Deaths 14 February – Wilhelmina Enbom, Swedish opera singer, 75 9 May – Hermann Berens, German-born Swedish pianist and composer, 54 17 August – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer, 70 7 October – Fredrika Stenhammar, Swedish opera singer, 44 8 October – Magnus Brostrup Landstad, Norwegian clergyman, psalmist and poet, 78 8 November – Andreas Peter Berggreen, Danish organist and composer, 79
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