Musica

Musica was a record label created in 1945 in order to publish German Telefunken records in Sweden and Norway, since the Telefunken label could not be used after World War II. The two countries had different catalog number blocks so the same number would not appear with different record content, and there were also some blocks set aside for Denmark and Finland.

Both Norway and Sweden had local agents representing the German electronics company AEG-Telefunken before the war. Telefunken records were sold by Svensk AB Trådlös Telegrafi (SATT) in Sweden, and by Norsk Telefunken Radioaktieselskap (NTR) in Norway. After the war they were both unable to use the Telefunken label, and Telefunken were not able to produce any new records for a while. Musica was created to keep both companies going, while making new records for their local markets. In Sweden they also re-issued older, re-labeled Telefunken records.

In 1948 Telefunken was up and running again, and a new agent was started in Sweden,… More