The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1943 in Nordic music.
Events
March – Having made her last film appearance in Nazi Germany, still declining to take out German citizenship, Zarah Leander leaves Berlin for her native Sweden. 27 March – The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen stages the European première of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.Fjeldsøe, M. (2020). Getting away with Cultural Bolshevism: the first European performance of Porgy and Bess in Copenhagen, 1943. In D. Fanning, & E. Levi (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality (pp. 303-318). Routledge. 29 October – Uuno Klami's Violin Concerto is premièred in Helsinki, with Toivo Haapanen conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and soloist Anja Ignatius. unknown date Danish pianist and composer Herman David Koppel leaves Denmark for Sweden with his Jewish family to avoid persecution by the Nazis. In a diary entry, Jean Sibelius expresses regret at having signed the Aryan certificate. In celebration of Edvard Grieg's centenary, Norway's far-right governing country, Nasjonal Samling, commissions a propaganda film.
New works Páll Ísólfsson – Veislan á Sólhaugum (The Feast at Solhaug) (incidental music) Uuno Klami – Violin Concerto; later revised Paul von Klenau – String Quartet No. 2 Jón Leifs Íslendingaljóð 3 söngvar eftir Jónas Hallgrímsson
Popular music Hugo Alfvén – "Herr Olof i älvornas dans" Anna-Lisa Frykman – "Julpolskan" (in Nu ska vi sjunga)
Film music Carl-Olof Anderberg & Kai Gullmar – Sonja Nils-Eric Fougstedt – Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi Lars-Erik Larsson & Nathan Görling – Elvira Madigan Poul Schierbeck – Vredens dag
Births 23 March – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish Sami artist, writer and musician (died 2001) 10 April – Bo Hansson, Swedish progressive rock musician (died 2010) 16 April – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader (died 2011) 22 July – Hans Wärmling, Swedish musician and songwriter (died 1995) 28 August – Anne-Lise Berntsen, Norwegian soprano (died 2012)
Deaths 1 April – Anders Hovden, Norwegian classical pianist, composer and radio personality (born 1860) 26 May – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist and composer (born 1864) 23 November – Torolf Voss, Norwegian conductor and composer (born 1877)
See also 1943 in Denmark
1943 in Iceland 1943 in Norwegian music 1943 in Sweden
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