1983 in Scandinavian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 1983.
Events
- 14 March – Swedish band Europe release their first album, Europe, on Hot Records.
- 30 May – Former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog releases her first English-language solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me.
- unknown date
- *25-year-old Esa-Pekka Salonen replaces Michael Tilson Thomas as conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra when the latter is taken ill just before a performance. Salonen immediately emerges from obscurity. In the same year he co-founds the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland.
- *Per Nørgård's opera-ballet Siddhartha, with libretto by Ole Sarvig, originally written in the mid-1970s, is premièred at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
- *Swedish band Rymdimperiet changes its name to Imperiet.
New works
- Magnus Lindberg
- *Ablauf
- *Zona
- Per Nørgård – ''Det guddommelige Tivoli ''
Hit singles
- ABBA – "Thank You for the Music"
- Kikki Danielsson – "Varför är kärleken röd?"
- Electric Banana Band – "Bananknotakt av tredje graden"
- Europe – "Seven Doors Hotel"
- Carola Häggkvist – "Främling"
- Tomas Ledin – "What Are You Doing Tonight?"
- Jahn Teigen – "Do re mi"
- Yö – "Likaiset legendat I"
Eurovision Song Contest
- Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
- Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
- Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
- Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1983
Film and television music
- Anders Berglund – Två killar och en tjej, featuring Björn Haugan
- Geir Bøhren & Bent Åserud – Hockeyfeber
- Gunner Møller Pedersen – ''Skønheden og udyret''
Births
- 27 January – John Lundvik, British-born Swedish singer-songwriter
- 16 October – Loreen, Swedish double Eurovision-winning singer
Deaths
- 21 May – Finn Mortensen, Norwegian music teacher, critic and composer
- 3 August – Helge Bonnén, Danish pianist and composer
- 16 October – Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian violinist and conductor
- 29 October – Sten Broman, Swedish composer