The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1919 in
Norwegian music.
Events
Deaths
Births
; February
* 15 –
Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due
Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due (19 February 1919 – 18 November 1985) was a Norwegian violinist and music teacher and son of violinist Henrik Adam Due (1891–1966) and Mary Barratt Due (b. Barratt, 1888–1969). He married Else Barratt-Due (b. Hols ...
, violinist and music teacher (died
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
).
; March
* 2 –
Bjørn Fongaard, composer, guitarist, and teacher (died
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
).
; July
* 12 –
Jon Bratt Otnes
Jon Bratt Otnes (né ''John Jakob Otnes''; 12 July 1919, in Oslo – 16 October 2004, in ibidem) was a Norwegian opera singer and subsequently a civil servant in Norway. When retired, Otnes acted as Albania's honorary consul-general in Norway.
Ot ...
, opera singer and diplomat (died
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
).
* 27 –
Per Hjort Albertsen, composer (died
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...
).
; September
* 8 –
Johan Kvandal
David Johan Kvandal (né Johansen; 8 September 1919 – 16 February 1999) was a Norwegian composer.
Career
He was born in Kristiania to David Monrad Johansen and Amunda Holmsen, with the family later moving to Bærum where Kvandal died.
He too ...
, composer and music critic (died
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 Ä°zmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
).
* 28 –
Fred Lange-Nielsen Fred Lange-Nielsen (28 September 1919 – 28 December 1989) was a Norwegian doctor and jazz musician (bass, vocals), known in the early Oslo environments, and from several recordings.
Lange-Nielsen and Anton Jervell were the first to describe Jerve ...
, jazz bassist and vocalist (died
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
).
; November
* 25 –
Øistein Sommerfeldt, composer (died
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
).
See also
*
1919 in Norway
Events in the year 1919 in Norway.
Incumbents
*Monarch – Haakon VII
*Prime Minister – Gunnar Knudsen
Events
* Production of zinc begins in Glomfjord at the state-owned industrial plant.
* Municipal and county elections are held throughout t ...
*
Music of Norway
References
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