The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1952 in Norwegian music.

Events

Deaths

April

• 21 – Alfred Andersen-Wingar, composer and orchestra conductor (born 1869).^[1]

December

• 14 – Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist (born 1887).^[2]

Births

February

• 20 – Halvor Haug, composer.
• 22 – Soon-Mi Chung, violinist, viola player, and musical director.

April

• 9 – Magnar Åm, composer
• 25 – Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist, composer and author

May

• 3 – Henning Sommerro, pianist, composer, and professor at NTNU.

June

• 6 – Kjell Samkopf, drummer and composer.
• 12 – Bent Patey, guitarist, composer and writer.
• 14 – Trond-Viggo Torgersen, physician, broadcaster, television host, comedian, singer, and songwriter.
• 19 – Sidsel Endresen, jazz vocalist, composer and actor.
• 25 – Radka Toneff, jazz singer (died 1982).^[3]

August

• 11 – Finn Sletten, jazz drummer

September

• 9 Per Jørgensen, jazz trumpeter

October

• 3 Øyvind Rauset, artist, musician and composer.

November

• 8 – Carl Haakon Waadeland, musicologist and drummer
• 28 – Ole Thomsen, jazz guitarist

December

• 16 – Jon Laukvik, organist