The following is a list of notable events and compositions of the year 1954 in Nordic music.
Events
unknown date Einojuhani Rautavaara wins the Thor Johnson Brass Composition Award for his composition A Requiem in Our Time. Another Finnish composer, Usko Meriläinen, wins second place in the same competition with his Partita for Brass. Geirr Tveitt begins publishing his collection of Hardanger folk tunes as a suite. Uuno Klami finishes re-writing his Violin Concerto, the original manuscript of which was lost in 1944.
New works Carl-Olof Anderberg – Musical vignettes for Charlotte Löwensköld – Festspel Lille Bror Söderlundh – Incidental music for Mariana Pineda
Popular music Thorbjørn Egner – "Visen om vesle Hoa" (also translated from Norwegian into Finnish as "Hottentottilaulu" by Jukka Virtanen)
Film music Egon Kjerrman – En natt på Glimmingehus Egil Monn-Iversen – Kasserer Jensen Lille Bror Söderlundh – Storm over Tjurö Jules Sylvain – Dans på rosor
Musical films I rök och dans, with music by Povel Ramel, Charles Redland and Lille Bror Söderlundh
Births 14 January – Gunnar Andreas Berg, Norwegian guitarist, music teacher, and record label manager 13 April – Niels "Noller" Olsen, of Denmark's Olsen Brothers 27 April – Heikki Silvennoinen, Finnish musician and actor (died 2024) 31 May – Anders Hillborg, Swedish composer 12 June – Jesper Lundgaard, Danish jazz musician and composer 11 December – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic heavy metal musician
Deaths 21 January – Per Reidarson, Norwegian composer and music critic (born 1879) 6 October – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (born 1876)
See also 1954 in Denmark
1954 in Iceland 1954 in Norwegian music 1954 in Sweden
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