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Balto-Finnic music is a category of music of Balto-Finnic people, that overlaps with both Nordic folk music of Nordic countries and Baltic folk music of Baltic states. Finland's musical ties are primarily to the Balto-Finnic peoples of Russia and Estonia (Cronshaw, 91). Runic singing was practiced throughout the area inhabited by these peoples.
The Finnish Literature Society advertises for "folk songs, dance or poetry tunes carefully written down from people (in other words, notated music)". [ 1 ] Hoping to make a career as a violinist, Finnish music student Jean Sibelius gives a performance of Ferdinand David 's Violin Concerto.
25 January – Swedish aristocrat Baron Rolf Cederström (1870–1947) marries world-famous operatic soprano Adelina Patti, who is thirty years his senior. [1]8 April – Andreas Hallén's opera Waldemarsskatten, with a libretto by Axel von Klinkowström, is premièred at the Royal Swedish Opera.
Spring – Swedish singer Esther Gadelius performs songs by Helena Munktell in a concert series by the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris, France. [1]8 April – Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 2 is performed in public for the first time, in Copenhagen.
14 February – Wilhelmina Enbom, Swedish opera singer, 75 [8]; 9 May – Hermann Berens, German-born Swedish pianist and composer, 54 [9]; 17 August – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer, 70 [10]
Finnish composer Robert Kajanus founds the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Scandinavia's first permanent professional orchestra. [3] Norwegian cellist and composer Anton Jörgen Andersen becomes a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien). [4]
Nordic popular music, also referred to as Scandinavian popular music, includes pop and rock music of the Nordic countries. The musical scene is known for its biggest bands like ABBA, Roxette, A-ha, Michael Learns to Rock, Ace of Base, and Aqua. These are by far the biggest non-metal acts to come out of Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
He has composed the music for eight ballets with the Danish Dance Theatre, 50 theatrical plays and for more than 100 movies. [25] Frederik Magle. Poul Ruders (born 1949) is known internationally for the music he has written for choir, chamber ensemble, and solo instruments, which are frequently performed outside Denmark. It is however is ...