The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1939 in Nordic music.
Events
1 January – Jean Sibelius conducts his orchestral version of Andante festivo in a live broadcast to the New York World's Fair. 17 June – The earliest surviving recording of the "Säkkijärven polkka", a folk song made popular by Finnish accordionist Viljo "Vili" Vesterinen is made at the German school in Helsinki, with former members of the Dallapé Orchestra. unknown date – Eric Bengtson ceases to conduct the Svensk Filmindustri orkestern and becomes principal conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra.
New works John Fernström – A Chinese Rhapsody Hilding Rosenberg – String Quartet No. 4
Popular music Adolf Kristoffer Nielsen & Holger Sinding – "Fjellsangen" Nils "Jokern" Perne och Sven Paddock – "Vårat gäng"
Film music Nathan Görling – Kalle på Spången Adolf Kristoffer Nielsen – Gjest Baardsen, starring Alfred Maurstad Jules Sylvain – Emilie Högquist
Births 21 March – Christer Boustedt, Swedish saxophonist and actor (died 1986) 13 May – Kari Løvaas, Norwegian operatic soprano (died 2025) 22 June – Heikki Sarmanto, Finnish jazz pianist and composer 9 August Odd Børre, Norwegian singer (died 2023) Ove Stokstad, Norwegian saxophonist (died 2018) 18 August – Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and singer (died 2008)
Deaths 11 February – Gustav Fredrik Lange, Norwegian violinist, composer and music teacher (born 1861) 3 May – Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen, Danish composer and music theorist (born 1855) 10 May – Sigfús Einarsson, Icelandic organist and composer (born 1877) 4 June – Carl Cohn Haste, blind Danish pianist, organist and composer (born 1874) 3 August – August Enna, Danish composer (born 1859) 16 October – Ludolf Nielsen, Danish violinist, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1876)
See also 1939 in Denmark
1939 in Iceland 1939 in Norwegian music 1939 in Sweden
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