title: 1947 in Norwegian music
text: # 1947 in Norwegian music
  
  The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1947 in Norwegian music.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Edvard Fliflet Bræin made his debut as an orchestra conductor in Bergen.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### May
  
  * 23 – Per Kvist, revue writer, entertainer, stage actor, film actor and children's writer (born 1890).
  
  ### June
  
  * 28 – Per Steenberg, organist and composer (born 1870).
  
  ## Births
  
  ### January
  
  * 24 – Øystein Sunde, folk singer and guitarist.
  
  ### February
  
  * 9 – Ole Paus, folk singer and guitarist.
  * 15 – Wenche Myhre, singer and actress.
  * 19 – Øystein Dolmen, singer and songwriter, Knutsen & Ludvigsen.
  
  ### March
  
  * 4 – Jan Garbarek, jazz saxophonist and composer.
  * 29 – Aage Kvalbein, cellist and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
  * 30 – Terje Venaas, jazz upright bassist.
  * 31 – Kjell Mørk Karlsen, composer and organist.
  
  ### April
  
  * 1 – Fred Nøddelund, jazz flugelhornist and band leader (died 2016).
  * 30 – Finn Kalvik, singer and songwriter.
  
  ### May
  
  * 1 – Gunnar Germeten Jr., composer (died 1999).
  * 9 – Pernille Anker, actor and singer (died 1999).
  
  ### June
  
  * 13 – Ketil Haugsand, harpsichordist and conductor.
  
  ### July
  
  * 3 – Grethe Kausland, singer, performer and actress (died 2007).
  
  ### August
  
  * 2 – Ruth Bakke, organist and composer.
  * 23 – Terje Rypdal, guitarist and composer.
  
  ### September
  
  * 25 – Torhild Staahlen, operatic mezzo-soprano at Norwegian National Opera.
  * 28 – Gustav Lorentzen, folk singer and entertainer in Knutsen & Ludvigsen (died 2010).
  
  ### December
  
  * 29 – Odd-Arne Jacobsen, guitarist and songwriter.
  