The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1947 in Norwegian music.

• Edvard Fliflet Bræin made his debut as an orchestra conductor in Bergen.^[1]

May

• 23 – Per Kvist, revue writer, entertainer, stage actor, film actor and children's writer (born 1890).^[2]

June

• 28 – Per Steenberg, organist and composer (born 1870).^[3]

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).^[4]
• 30 – Finn Kalvik, singer and songwriter.

May

• 1 – Gunnar Germeten Jr., composer (died 1999).^[5]
• 9 – Pernille Anker, actor and singer (died 1999).^[6]

June

• 13 – Ketil Haugsand, harpsichordist and conductor.

July

• 3 – Grethe Kausland, singer, performer and actress (died 2007).^[7]

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).^[8]

December

• 29 – Odd-Arne Jacobsen, guitarist and songwriter.

• 1947 in Norway
• Music of Norway