The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1920 in
Norwegian music
Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pil ...
.
Events
Deaths
Births
; January
* 11 –
Ole Henrik Moe
Ole Henrik Moe (11 January 1920 – 29 July 2013) was a Norwegian pianist, art historian and art critic.
He was born in Lillehammer, and is the brother of archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad. During World War II he was a member of the intelligenc ...
, pianist, art historian, and critic (died
2013
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).
; February
* 15 –
Rolf Andersen, trumpeter, orchestra conductor, and bandleader (died
2016
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).
* 16 —
Karsten Andersen
Karsten Anker Andersen (16 February 192015 December 1997) was a Norwegian conductor.
Life
Karsten Andersen was born in Fredrikstad. He graduated from the Oslo Music Conservatory (1938–39) and Accademia Musicale Chigiana (1947). He made his deb ...
, orchestra conductor (died
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
).
; August
* 3 –
Jonas Brunvoll, Jr., operatic singer and actor (died
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
).
* 28 –
Rowland Greenberg
Rowland Charles Wentworth Greenberg (28 August 1920 in Oslo – 2 April 1994) was a Norwegian jazz musician (trumpet), seen by many as one of the foremost names in Norwegian jazz in the 1940s and 1950s.
Career
With a style inspired by the Engl ...
, trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader (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
*
1920 in Norway
Events in the year 1920 in Norway.
Incumbents
*Monarch – Haakon VII
Events
* 9 February – The League of Nations gives Spitsbergen to Norway.
* 17–19 June – The Centre Party was founded.
* Aalesund ship is discovered embedded in the ear ...
*
Music of Norway
Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pil ...
References
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Norwegian music
Norwegian
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*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
*Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
*Demographics of Norway
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Music
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...
1920s in Norwegian music