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• April 26
  • Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
    
    's Symphony No. 1
    Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius)
    Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 was written in 1898, when Sibelius was 33. The work was first performed on 26 April 1899 by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in an original version which has not survived. After the premiere, Sibelius made some...
    
    is premiered in Helsinki
    Helsinki
    Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
    
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  • Tenor Antonio Paoli
    Antonio Paolí
    Antonio Paoli was a Puerto Rican tenor. He was known at the height of his fame as "The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings." He is considered to be the first Puerto Rican to reach international fame in the musical arts...
    
     makes his début in Rossini's William Tell
    William Tell (opera)
    Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell. Based on the legend of William Tell, this opera was Rossini's last, even though the composer lived for nearly forty more years...
    
    in Paris.
• May 27 - Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   conducts the first performance of his song cycle Shéhérazade
  Shéhérazade
  Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel.Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie, written in 1898 but unpublished, is a work for orchestra intended as the overture for an opera of the same name...
  
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• June 19 - Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
  's Enigma Variations
  Enigma Variations
  Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra , Op. 36, commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1898–1899. It is Elgar's best-known large-scale composition, for both the music itself and the...
  
  are premiered in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  
• Ragtime
  Ragtime
  Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published...
  
   music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   marries Rosalie Texier, having lived for nine years with her best friend; the marriage lasts only five years.
• Adelina Patti
  Adelina Patti
  Adelina Patti was a highly acclaimed 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851 and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914...
  
   marries Baron Rolf Cederström.
• Dame Marie Tempest
  Marie Tempest
  Dame Marie Tempest DBE was an English singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession".Tempest became the most famous soprano in late Victorian light opera and Edwardian musical comedies. Later, she became a leading comic actress and toured widely in North America and elsewhere...
  
   marries actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart.
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".-Early life and education:...
  
   marries Jessie Walmisley.

Published popular music

• "Absent"     w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf
• "Always!"     w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
• "Cake Walk In The Sky" by Ben Harney
  Ben Harney
  Benjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is regarded as one of the first published ragtime songs...
  
  
• "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do A Thing To You"     w.m. Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "A Coon Band Contest"     m. Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. In later life, he was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.Pryor was born on the second floor of...
  
  
• "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun
• "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey"     w.m. Alfred W. Noll
• "Hands Across The Sea
  Hands Across the Sea
  Hands Across the Sea is a military march composed in 1899 by John Philip Sousa. Sousa told interviewers that the following phrase inspired him to compose the march:"A sudden thought strikes me; let us swear eternal friendship"...
  
  "     m. John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
  
  
• "Hearts And Flowers
  Hearts and Flowers
  "Hearts and Flowers" is a song composed by Theodore Moses-Tobani and published in 1893.The famous melody is taken from the introductory 2/4 section of "Wintermärchen" Waltzes Op.366 by the Hungarian composer Alphons Czibulka.The song as a vocal number was soon forgotten but the piece it was...
  
  "     w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani
• "Hello! Ma Baby
  Hello! Ma Baby
  "Hello! Ma Baby" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1899 by the team of Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson . Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone...
  
  "     w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard
• "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You"     w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "If Only You Were Mine"     w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" w.m. Harry Dacre
• "Impecunious Davis" by Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
  
  
• "Mandy Lee" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
• "Maple Leaf Rag
  Maple Leaf Rag
  The "Maple Leaf Rag" is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. As a result Joplin was called the "King...
  
  " by Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
  
  
• "Mosquito Parade"     m. Howard Whitney
• "My Little Georgia Rose"     w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
• "My Wild Irish Rose
  My Wild Irish Rose
  My Wild Irish Rose is a 1947 film directed by David Butler. It stars Dennis Morgan and Arlene Dahl. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1948....
  
  "     w.m. Chauncey Olcott
• "'O Sole Mio
  'O Sole Mio
  "O sole mio" is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the melody was composed by Eduardo di Capua. Though there are versions in other languages, "'O sole mio" is usually sung in the original Neapolitan language...
  
  !"     w. Giovanni Capurro m. Edoardo di Capua
• "A Picture No Artist Can Paint"     w.m. J. Fred Helf
• "She Was Happy Till She Met You"     w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
• "Smoky Mokes"     m. Abe Holzmann
• "Stay In Your Own Back Yard"     w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
• "The Story Of The Rose" (aka "Heart Of My Heart")      w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack
  Andrew Mack (actor)
  Andrew Mack was an American vaudevillian, actor, singer and songwriter of Irish descent. Born William Andrew McAloon in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his career in 1876 using the stage name Andrew Williams.- External links :...
  
  
• "Telephone Me, Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  
• "There's Where My Heart Is Tonight"     w.m. Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow"     w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Whistling Rufus"     w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
  
  
• "You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine" w. Seymore Rice & Albert H. Brown, m. Charles N. Daniels

Recorded popular music

• "Abide With Me" (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte
  Henry Francis Lyte
  Henry Francis Lyte was a Scottish Anglican divine and hymn-writer.-Youth and education:Henry Francis Lyte was born to Thomas and Anna Maria Lyte on a farm at Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland...
  
   m. William Henry Monk
  William Henry Monk
  Probably better known in his day as an organist, church musician, and music editor, William Henry Monk composed a fair number of popular hymn tunes, including one of the most famous from nineteenth century England, "Eventide", used for the hymn Abide with Me...
  
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  - Frank C. Stanley
  Frank C. Stanley
  Frank C. Stanley was a bass-baritone singer, stage performer and banjoist who made many early gramophone recordings on disc and cylinder during the 1890s and the 1900s. His real name was William Stanley Grinsted. He was born on 29 December 1868 in Orange, New Jersey...
  
   on Edison Records
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
• "Always!" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers)
  - May Kelso on Edison Records
  - Harry Macdonough
  Harry Macdonough
  John Scantlebury Macdonald was a Canadian singer and recording executive. Under the pseudonym Harry Macdonough, he was one of the most prolific and popular tenors during the formative years of recorded music....
  
   on Edison Records
• "Asleep In The Deep
  Asleep in the Deep (song)
  "Asleep in the Deep" is a song written by Arthur J. Lamb and composed by Henry W. Petrie in 1897. It is titled for a refrain found in its chorus:* * -External links:**...
  
  " (w. Arthur J. Lamb
  Arthur J. Lamb
  Arthur J. Lamb was a British lyricist best known for the 1897 song "Asleep in the Deep" and the 1900 song "A Bird in a Gilded Cage". He collaborated with many song-writers, including Albert Von Tilzer, Harry Von Tilzer, Henry W. Petrie and Kerry Mills.-Selected works:* "Asleep in the Deep" m....
  
   m. Henry W. Petrie
  Henry W. Petrie
  Henry W. Petrie was an American composer and performer of popular music. Petrie was born in Bloomington, Illinois and died in Paw Paw, Michigan.- Songs :* "Davy Jones' Locker"...
  
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  - William Hooley on Edison Records
• "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
  
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  - John Terrell on Berliner Records
  Berliner Gramophone
  Berliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
  
  
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
   on Edison Records
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
• "Ave Maria" (w. (Fr) Paul Bernard m. Charles Gounod
  Charles Gounod
  Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
  
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  - M. A. Guarini on Edison Records
  - W. D. McFarland on Berliner Records
• "Because" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
• "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms
  Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms
  "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" is a popular folk song of early 19th century Ireland and America. Irish poet Thomas Moore wrote the words to a traditional Irish air in 1808. His lyrics are as follows:**...
  
  " (w. Thomas Moore
  Thomas Moore
  Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
  
   m. trad)
  - J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
• "The Boy Guessed Right" (w.m. Lionel Monckton
  Lionel Monckton
  Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
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  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records & Berliner Records
• "The Cake Walk" (trad US)
  - Eugene Stratton
  Eugene Stratton
  Eugene Augustus Rühlmann was born in Buffalo, New York. He adopted the stage name Eugene Stratton, and became an American-born dancer and singer, whose career was mostly spent in British Music halls.- Biography :...
  
   with piano Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
   on Berliner Gramophone
• "Calvary" (w. Henry Vaughn m. Paul Rodney)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
• "Comin' Thro' The Rye
  Comin' Through the Rye
  "Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns . It is well known as a traditional children's song, with the words put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel Common' Frae The Town...
  
  " (w. Robert Burns
  Robert Burns
  Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...
  
   m. trad)
  - Syria Lamonte with piano Fred Gaisberg
  Fred Gaisberg
  Frederick William Gaisberg was an American-born musician, recording engineer and one of the earliest classical music producers for the gramophone. He himself did not use the term 'producer' and was not an impresario like his protégé Walter Legge of EMI or an innovator like John Culshaw of Decca...
  
   on Berliner Gramophone
  Berliner Gramophone
  Berliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
  
  
• "Curse of the Dreamer"
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
   on Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
• "Down The Road" (w.m. Fred Gilbert)
  - Gus Elen
  Gus Elen
  Ernest Augustus Elen was an English music hall singer and comedian. He achieved success from 1891, performing cockney songs including Arf a Pint of Ale, It's a Great Big Shame, Down the Road and If It Wasn't for the 'Ouses in Between in a career lasting over thirty years.Born in Pimlico, London,...
  
   on Berliner Gramophone
• "Eli Green's Cakewalk" (w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky)
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Edison Records
• "Emmet's Lullaby" (w.m. J. K. Emmet)
  - George P. Watson on Edison Records
• "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
  Luigi Denza
  Luigi Denza , was an Italian composer.Denza was born at Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. He studied music under Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory. Later, he moved to London and became a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in 1898...
  
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  - Hotel Cecil Orchestra on Berliner Gramophone
• "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier)
  - Albert Chevalier
  Albert Chevalier
  Albert Onesime Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis Chevalier was an English comedian and actor.-Early life:Albert Chevalier was born in the Royal Crescent, in London's Notting Hill...
  
   on Berliner Gramophone
• "God Save The Queen"
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
• "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith
  Harry B. Smith
  Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
  
   m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
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  - Eugene Cowles on Berliner Records
  - William Hooley on Edison Records
• "Hands Across The Sea March" (m. John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
  
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  - Peerless Orchestra on Edison Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
• "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani)
  - violin Chris De Arth on Berliner Records
• "Hello! Ma Baby" (w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard
  Joseph E. Howard
  Joseph E. Howard was a Broadway composer, lyricist, and librettist. His Broadway credits include The District Leader, The Land of Nod and The Song Birds, The Time, the Place and the Girl, The Flower of the Ranch, The Girl Question, Stubborn Cinderella, The Goddess of Liberty, Maurice Chevalier in...
  
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  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  - Len Spencer
  Len Spencer
  Leonard Garfield Spencer was an early American recording artist. He recorded numerous popular songs in the pre-1920s, the most popular of which was "Arkansaw Traveler" . The song is an early novelty record and consists of a back-and-forth banter with an Arkansas local who is playing a fiddle...
  
   on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
• "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
  Michael Maybrick
  Michael Maybrick was an English composer and singer, best known under his pseudonym Stephen Adams as the composer of "The Holy City," one of the most popular religious songs in English.-Early life:...
  
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  - Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
• "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne
  John Howard Payne
  John Howard Payne was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States, Great Britain, and the...
  
   m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
  - whistling John Yorke Atlee on Berliner Records
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" (w. Alfred Bunn
  Alfred Bunn
  Alfred Bunn was an English theatrical manager.He was appointed stage-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1823. In 1826 he was managing the Theatre Royal in Birmingham, and in 1833 he undertook the joint management of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, London. In this undertaking he met with...
  
   m. Michael William Balfe
  Michael William Balfe
  Michael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works...
  
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  - J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
• "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" (w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
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  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  - Edward M. Favor
  Edward M. Favor
  Edward M. Favor was an American singer and vaudeville comedian. He was among the first recorded musicians.-References:...
  
   on Berliner Records
  - George J. Gaskin
  George J. Gaskin
  -Career:Born in Belfast, Ireland, he became one of the most popular singers the United States in the 1890s and was nicknamed the "Silver Voiced Irish Tenor". His earliest known recordings were done for the Edison North American Phonograph Company on June 2, 1891...
  
   on Columbia Records
• "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" (w. Will A. Heelan
  Will A. Heelan
  Will A. Heelan was an American lyricist during the early 20th century. He collaborated with a number of composers and lyricists including E. P. Moran, Seymour Furth, J...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
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  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
• "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn)
  - Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
• "If Only You Were Mine" (w. Harry B. Smith
  Harry B. Smith
  Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
  
   m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
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  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
• "It's A Great Big Shame" (w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn)
  - Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
• "Jack's The Boy" (Greenbank, Jones)
  - H. Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
• "Just As The Sun Went Down" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
• "Just One Girl" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - H. Scott Russell with p. Amy Williams on Berliner Gramophone
  - J. W. Myers on Columbia Records
• "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch)
  - William Hooley on Edison Records
• "Kiss Me, Honey Do" (w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
• "Little Dolly Daydream" (w.m. Leslie Stuart)
  - Eugene Stratton on Berliner Gramophone
• "Little Old New York is Good Enough For Me"
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
   on Berliner Records
• "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter
  Adelaide Anne Procter
  Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked on behalf of a number of causes, most prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter never married, and some of her poetry has prompted...
  
   m. Sir Arthur Sullivan
  Arthur Sullivan
  Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
  
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  - William F. Hooley on Berliner Records
• "Mandy Lee" (w.m. Thurland Chattaway)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
• "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" (w.m. Charles K. Harris
  Charles K. Harris
  Charles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
  
  )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney)
  - John Terrell on Berliner Records
• "Molly's The Girl For Me"
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
• "The Moth And The Flame" (w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
• "My Little Georgia Rose" (w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt)
  - Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
• "My Old Dutch" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
  Charles Ingle
  Charles Ingle was an English composer. Ingle was the brother and manager of performer Albert Chevalier. Ingle was one of six children. He had two brothers, Albert and Bertram; and a sister, Adéle...
  
  )
  - Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
• "My Old New Hampshire Home" (w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
  - Byron G. Harlan
  Byron G. Harlan
  Byron G. Harlan was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".-Solo recordings:1899...
  
   & A. D. Madeira on Edison Records
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - George J. Gaskin
  George J. Gaskin
  -Career:Born in Belfast, Ireland, he became one of the most popular singers the United States in the 1890s and was nicknamed the "Silver Voiced Irish Tenor". His earliest known recordings were done for the Edison North American Phonograph Company on June 2, 1891...
  
   on Berliner Records
  - The Greater New York Quartette on Columbia Records
• "My Wild Irish Rose" (w.m. Chauncey Olcott)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
• "Night Hymn At Sea"
  - Clara Butt
  Clara Butt
  Dame Clara Ellen Butt DBE , sometimes called Clara Butt-Rumford after her marriage, was an English contralto with a remarkably imposing voice and a surprisingly agile singing technique. Her main career was as a recitalist and concert singer.-Early life and career:Clara Butt was born in Southwick,...
  
   & Kennerley Rumford on Berliner Gramophone
• "The Old Brigade" (w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Orlando Barri)
  - H. Scott Russell with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
• "Old Man's Story"
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia records
• "The Old Oaken Bucket
  Old Oaken Bucket
  The Old Oaken Bucket is the name of the trophy that is annually awarded to the winner of the Big Ten Conference college football game between Indiana University and Purdue University. It is one of the oldest football trophies in the nation...
  
  " (w. Samuel Woodworth
  Samuel Woodworth
  Samuel Woodworth was an American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and poet.-History:...
  
   m. E. Kaillmark)
  - Haydn Quartette on Berliner Records
• "The Organ Grinder's Serenade"
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
• "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" (w.m. J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf was an American composer and sheet music publisher during the early 20th century.Helf was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He went to seek his fortune in New York City at the age of 31. There he composed over 100 songs, some in collaboration with Will A. Heelan.In October 1910 his music...
  
  )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "She Is The Belle Of New York" (w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
  Gustave Kerker
  Gustave Adolph Kerker was a German composer and conductor who made a career in London and America. He became a musical director for Broadway theatre productions and wrote the music for a series of musicals.-Life and career:...
  
  )
  - Frank Lawton with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
• "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "She Was Happy Till She Met You" (w. Charles Graham
  Charles Graham
  Charles Graham was an Australian politician. Graham was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and educated at state schools. He worked as a tailor and was a union official before entering parliament...
  
   m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld)
  - Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
  - Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
• "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann
  Abe Holzmann
  Abe Holzmann was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian immigrant and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany...
  
  )
  - Len Spencer on Columbia Records
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
   on Edison Records
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
  - Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
• "The Soldiers Of The Queen" (w.m. Leslie Stuart)
  - Albert Christian with p. Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
• "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent
  Maude Nugent
  Maude Nugent Nugent, [Jerome], Maude . American singer and composer. She began her career in vaudeville, achieving tremendous success in 1896 with her song Sweet Rosie O’Grady, which became the archetypal waltz ballad of the 1890’s...
  
  )
  - Lil Hawthorne on Berliner Gramophone
• "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" (w. William S. Gilbert
  W. S. Gilbert
  Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
  
   m. Arthur Sullivan
  Arthur Sullivan
  Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
  
  )
  - Herbert Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
• "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (w. Thomas Moore m. Richard Alfred Milliken)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
• "Toreador Song" (w. H. Meilac, Ludovic Halévy
  Ludovic Halévy
  Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...
  
   m. Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  )
  - Montague Borwell on Berliner Gramophone
• "Whistling Rufus" (w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills)
  - Len Spencer on Berliner Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records & Berliner Records
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
   on Edison Records
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
• "Yes, Let Me Like A Soldier Fall" (w. Edward Fitzball
  Edward Fitzball
  Edward Fitzball was a popular English playwright, who specialised in melodrama. His real surname was Ball, and he was born at Burwell, Cambridgeshire.Fitzball was educated in Newmarket, was apprenticed to a Norwich printer in 1809...
  
   m. Vincent Wallace)
  - Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner Records
• "You've Been A Good Old Wagon" (Harney)
  - Len Spencer
  Len Spencer
  Leonard Garfield Spencer was an early American recording artist. He recorded numerous popular songs in the pre-1920s, the most popular of which was "Arkansaw Traveler" . The song is an early novelty record and consists of a back-and-forth banter with an Arkansas local who is playing a fiddle...
  
   on Columbia Records & Berliner Records

Classical music

• Amy Beach
  Amy Beach
  Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...
  
   - Piano Concerto in C minor, op. 45 (1898/9)
• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
  
   - Paris, Nocturne
• Ernő von Dohnányi
  Erno Dohnányi
  Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....
  
   - Sonata for Cello and Piano in B minor
• Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
   - In the South (Alassio)
  In the South (Alassio)
  In the South , Op. 50, is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar during a family holiday in Italy in the winter of 1903 to 1904.The work is dedicated "To my friend Leo F. Schuster".- History :...
  
  , concert overture
  Overture
  Overture in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera...
  
  ; Sérénade lyrique, for orchestra
• Axel Gade
  Axel Gade
  Axel Gade was a Danish violinist, composer and conductor. He was the son of Niels Wilhelm Gade.-Notable works:*Violin concerto No. 1 in D major *Violin concerto Op. 10, No...
  
   - Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra in F major
• Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
  
   - Symphony No. 1
• Johan Halvorsen
  Johan Halvorsen
  Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.-Biography:Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life...
  
   - Norwegian Festival Overture
• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   - Pavane pour une Infante défunte, for piano
• Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
  
   - Verklärte Nacht
  Verklärte Nacht
  Verklärte Nacht , Op. 4, is a string sextet in one movement composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899 and his earliest important work...
  
  

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

• Eugen d'Albert
  Eugen d'Albert
  Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...
  
   - Kain
• Antonín Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
   - The Devil and Kate
  The Devil and Kate
  The Devil and Kate, Op. 112, B.201, is an opera in three acts by Antonín Dvořák to a Czech libretto by Adolf Wenig. It is based on a farce by Josef Kajetán Tyl, and the story also had been treated in the Fairy Tales of Božena Němcová...
  
  
• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer of classical music. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster. The surname is sometimes spelled Förster.- Life :...
  
   - Eva
• Isidore de Lara
  Isidore de Lara
  Isidore de Lara, born Isidore Cohen , was an English composer and singer. After studying in Italy and France, he returned to England where he taught for several years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and became a well known singer and composer of art songs...
  
   - Messaline
  Messaline
  Messaline is an operatic tragédie lyrique in four acts by Isidore de Lara. The librettists were Paul Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand.The opera premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 21 March 1899 where it was received enthusiastically...
  
  
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
  
   - Cendrillon
  Cendrillon
  Cendrillon is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Cain based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. The scenario was conceived by Massenet and Cain at the Cavendish Hotel while they were in London for the...
  
  (composed 1894-5, premiered 1899)

Musical theater

• Die Landstreicher
  Die Landstreicher
  Die Landstreicher is an operetta in one prologue and two acts by Karl Michael Ziehrer...
  
  - Karl Michael Ziehrer
  Karl Michael Ziehrer
  Karl Michael Ziehrer was an Austrian composer. In his lifetime, he was one of the fiercest rivals of the Strauss family; most notably Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss....
  
  
• El Capitan
  El Capitan (operetta)
  El Capitan is an operetta in three acts by John Philip Sousa and has a libretto by Charles Klein . The piece was Sousa's first successful operetta and his most successful stage work....
  
       London production
• Florodora
  Florodora
  Florodora is an Edwardian musical comedy and became one of the first successful Broadway musicals of the 20th century. The book was written by Jimmy Davis under the pseudonym Owen Hall, the music was by Leslie Stuart with additional songs by Paul Rubens, and the lyrics were by Edward Boyd-Jones...
  
  (Music: Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
   Lyrics: Sidney Jones & Paul Rubens Book: Owen Hall)     London production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (London)
  The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from the Prince of Wales Theatre to open...
  
   on November 11
• A Gaiety Girl
  A Gaiety Girl
  A Gaiety Girl is an English musical comedy in two acts by a team of musical comedy neophytes: Owen Hall , Harry Greenbank and Sidney Jones . It opened at Prince of Wales Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes, on 14 October 1893 and ran for 413 performances. The show starred C...
  
  London revival opened at Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.-Early years:...
  
   on June 5
• Helter-Skelter     Broadway production
• The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street     Broadway production
• The Rose of Persia
  The Rose of Persia
  The Rose of Persia; or, The Story-Teller and the Slave, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 29 November 1899, closing on 28 June 1900 after a profitable run of 211 performances...
  
  (music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
  Arthur Sullivan
  Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
  
  , libretto by Basil Hood
  Basil Hood
  Basil Willett Charles Hood was a British librettist and lyricist, perhaps best known for writing the libretti of half a dozen Savoy Operas and for his English adaptations of operettas, including The Merry Widow. He embarked on a career in the British army, writing theatrical pieces in his spare...
  
  ) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre
  Savoy Theatre
  The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,...
  
   on November 29
• San Toy
  San Toy
  San Toy, or The Emperor's Own is a "Chinese" musical comedy in two acts, first performed at Daly's Theatre, London, on 21 October 1899, and ran for 768 performances...
  
       London production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 21

Births

• January 7
  • Al Bowlly
    Al Bowlly
    Albert Allick Bowlly was a Southern-African singer, songwriter, composer and band leader, who became a popular Jazz crooner during the 1930s in the United Kingdom and later, in the United States of America. He recorded more than 1,000 records between 1927 and 1941...
    
    , singer
  • Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc
    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
    
    , composer
• January 21 - Alexander Tcherepnin
  Alexander Tcherepnin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...
  
  , pianist and composer (d. 1977)
• February 15 - Georges Auric
  Georges Auric
  Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Caussade, and under the composer Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum...
  
  , composer (d. 1983)
• March 5 - Patrick Hadley
  Patrick Hadley
  Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley was a British composer.-Biography:Patrick Sheldon Hadley was born on 5 March 1899 in Cambridge. His father, William Sheldon Hadley, was at that time a fellow of Pembroke College...
  
  , composer (d. 1973)
• April 5 - Leonard Falcone
  Leonard Falcone
  Leonard Falcone was best known as Professor of Baritone and Euphonium at Michigan State University where he also served from 1927 to 1967 as Director of Bands. The school's Spartan Marching Band transitioned from an ROTC auxiliary to a nationally known Big-10 conference marching band during his...
  
  , baritone/eupohonium virtuosos and director of bands at Michigan State
  Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band
  The Spartan Marching Band is Michigan State University's Marching Band. Founded in 1870 as a 10-member student group, the 300-member SMB has since grown into one of the premier college bands in the nation...
  
   (d. 1985)
• April 29 - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
  
  , jazz musician and composer (d. 1974)
• May 1 - Jón Leifs
  Jón Leifs
  Jón Leifs , was an Icelandic composer.Jón was born in Sólheimar. He left Iceland in 1916 to study in Germany at the Leipzig Conservatory. He graduated in 1921 having studied piano, and then devoted his time to conducting and composing. He became successful as a conductor, and also as a writer.He...
  
  , composer
• May 6 - Billy Cotton
  Billy Cotton
  William Edward Cotton , better known as Billy Cotton, was a British band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the dance band era. Today, he is mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, although his musical talent emerged as early as the 1920s...
  
  , bandleader
• May 10 - Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
  , song-and-dance man (d. 1987)
• May 30 - Little Jack Little
  Little Jack Little
  Jack Little , sometimes credited Little Jack Little, was a British-born American composer, singer, pianist , actor and songwriter whose songs were featured in several movies...
  
  , singer and songwriter (d. 1956)
• June 1 - Werner Janssen
  Werner Janssen
  Hans-Werner Janssen was an American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores.-Biography:...
  
  , conductor and composer (d. 1990)
• June 11 - George Frederick McKay
  George Frederick McKay
  George Frederick McKay was a prolific modern American composer.-Biography:McKay was born in the Far West of America in the small frontier wheat farming town of Harrington, Washington. His family later moved to the much larger town of Spokane, where he attended school up to his college years...
  
  , composer (d. 1970)
• June 13 - Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
  
  , composer and conductor
• June 16 - Helen Traubel
  Helen Traubel
  Helen Francesca Traubel was an American opera and concert singer. A dramatic soprano, she was best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she began her career as a concert singer and went on to sing at the Metropolitan...
  
  , opera singer
• June 19 - Pat Ballard
  Pat Ballard
  Pat Ballard born Francis Drake Ballard was an American songwriter.He composed "Mr. Sandman" and " I Get So Lonely".-References:...
  
  
• June 21 - Pavel Haas
  Pavel Haas
  Pavel Haas was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not large, he is notable particularly for his song cycles and string quartets.-Pre-war:Haas...
  
  , composer (d. 1944)
• June 30 - Harry Shields
  Harry Shields
  Harry Shields was an early jazz clarinetist.Harry Shields was born in uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, the younger brother of noted clarinetist Larry Shields. Harry spent almost his whole career in New Orleans. He played with the bands of Norman Brownlee, Sharkey Bonano, Tom Brown, Johnny Wiggs,...
  
  , jazz musician
• July 1 - Thomas A. Dorsey
  Thomas A. Dorsey
  Thomas Andrew Dorsey was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys." Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.As formulated by Dorsey,...
  
  , "father of gospel music
  Gospel music
  Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
  
  "
• July 10 - André Souris
  André Souris
  André Souris was a Belgian composer, conductor, musicologist, and writer associated with the surrealist movement.-Biography:...
  
  , composer and writer (d. 1970)
• July 17 - James Cagney
  James Cagney
  James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
  
  , US actor, singer and dancer
• July 30 - John Woods Duke
  John Woods Duke
  John Woods Duke , an American composer and pianist born in Cumberland, Maryland, became arguably best-known for his art songs.-Biography :John Woods Duke was the oldest child in a large musical family...
  
  , composer (d. 1984)
• August 12 - Leila Fletcher
  Leila Fletcher
  Leila Fletcher was a Canadian pianist, composer, publisher, music editor and educator.-Early years:She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Her parents provided her piano lessons from a local teacher...
  
  , pianist and composer (d. 1988)
• September 6 - Billy Rose
  Billy Rose
  William "Billy" Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon"...
  
  , Broadway producer and lyricist
• September 9 - Maria Yudina
  Maria Yudina
  Maria Veniaminovna Yudina was an influential Soviet pianist.Yudina was born to a Jewish family in Nevel, Russia. She studied at the Petrograd Conservatory under Anna Yesipova and Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev. She also briefly studied privately with Felix Blumenfeld. Her classmates included...
  
  , pianist (d. 1970)
• September 13 - Ephraim Amu
  Ephraim Amu
  Ephraim Kɔku Amu was a Ghanaian composer, musicologist and teacher.-Early life and education:A male child was born on Wednesday 13 September 1899 at Peki-Avetile also called Abenase in the Peki traditional area of the Volta Region . As a Ghanaian born on a Wednesday, he was called...
  
  , composer, musicologist and music teacher (d. 1995)
• September 25 - Ricard Lamote de Grignon
  Ricard Lamote de Grignon
  Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas , was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor.Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas...
  
  , conductor and composer (d. 1965)
• October 19 - Sidonie Goossens
  Sidonie Goossens
  Sidonie "Sid" Goossens OBE was one of Britain's most enduring harpists. She made her professional debut in 1921, was a founder member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and went on to play for more than half a century until her retirement in 1981.- The Goossens Family :She was a member of the famous...
  
  , harpist
• October 31 - Ted Shapiro
  Ted Shapiro
  Ted Shapiro was a United States popular music composer, pianist, and sheet music publisher.Shapiro was born in New York City. He became a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and accompanied notable star vaudeville singers of the day, including Nora Bayes and Eva Tanguay. In 1921 he was hired as accompanist...
  
  , songwriter & pianist (d. 1980)
• November 9 - Mezz Mezzrow
  Mezz Mezzrow
  Milton Mesirow, better known as Mezz Mezzrow was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois. Mezzrow is well known for organizing and financing historic recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. Mezzrow also recorded a number of times with Bechet and...
  
  , jazz musician
• November 18 - Eugene Ormandy
  Eugene Ormandy
  Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.-Early life:Born Jenő Blau in Budapest, Hungary, Ormandy began studying violin at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music at the age of five...
  
  , violinist and conductor (d. 1985)
• November 22 - Hoagy Carmichael
  Hoagy Carmichael
  Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...
  
  , composer, pianist and singer (d. 1981)
• November 29 - Gustave Reese
  Gustave Reese
  Gustave Reese was an American musicologist and teacher. Reese is known mainly for his work on medieval and Renaissance music, particularly with his two publications Music in the Middle Ages and Music in the Renaissance ; these two books remain the standard reference works for these two eras,...
  
  , musicologist
• November 30 - Hans Krása
  Hans Krása
  Hans Krása was a Czech composer who was killed in the Holocaust at Auschwitz. He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
  
  , Czech-German composer (d. 1944)
• December 2 - Sir John Barbirolli
  John Barbirolli
  Sir John Barbirolli, CH was an English conductor and cellist. Born in London, of Italian and French parentage, he grew up in a family of professional musicians. His father and grandfather were violinists...
  
  , conductor (d. 1970)
• December 11 - Julio de Caro
  Julio de Caro
  Julio de Caro was an Argentine composer, musician and conductor prominent in the Tango genre.-Life and work:...
  
  , composer (d. 1980)
• December 16 - Noël Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  , dramatist, actor, singer and composer (d. 1973)
• December 21 - Silvestre Revueltas
  Silvestre Revueltas
  Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor.-Life:...
  
  , composer
• date unknown
  • William Levi Dawson
    William Levi Dawson (composer)
    William Levi Dawson was an African-American composer, choir director and professor.-Life:...
    
    , composer
  • Sadettin Heper
    Sadettin Heper
    Sadettin Heper was a composer of Turkish music considered as an important link to the world of Turkish Mevlevi music before the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923...
    
    , composer (d. 1980)
  • Benny Nawahi, ukulele player
  • Herbert Sumsion
    Herbert Sumsion
    Herbert Whitton Sumsion was an English musician who was organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1928 to 1967...
    
    , composer and organist
  • Maria Yudina
    Maria Yudina
    Maria Veniaminovna Yudina was an influential Soviet pianist.Yudina was born to a Jewish family in Nevel, Russia. She studied at the Petrograd Conservatory under Anna Yesipova and Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev. She also briefly studied privately with Felix Blumenfeld. Her classmates included...
    
    , pianist

Deaths

• January 10 - Albert Becker
  Albert Becker (composer)
  Albert Ernst Anton Becker was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period.Becker was born in Quedlinburg. In 1853–1856 he studied music composition under Siegfried Dehn in Berlin. He taught on the faculty of the Akademie der Künste where his famous pupils included Johan Halvorsen and...
  
  , composer (b. 1834)
• February 4 - Eduard Holst
  Eduard Holst
  Eduard Holst was a Danish playwright, composer, actor, dancer, and dance master. His name is spelled sometimes Edward Holst or Edvard Holst....
  
  , Danish composer, playwright, actor, dancer and dance master (b. 1843)
• February 21 - Fernando Remacha
  Fernando Remacha
  Fernado Remacha Villar was a composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27.-Early years:...
  
  , composer
• April 17 - Hans Balatka, composer
• May 29 - Frantz Jehin-Prume
  Frantz Jehin-Prume
  Frantz Jehin-Prume was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. He began his career as a highly successful concert violinist in Europe. From 1865 on he lived and worked mainly in Montreal, Canada; becoming one of the most important 19th century musical figures in Quebec...
  
  , violinist, composer, and music educator (b. 1839)
• June 3 - Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
  
  , composer (b. 1825)
• June 10 - Ernest Chausson
  Ernest Chausson
  Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
  
  , composer (b. 1855) (bicycle accident)
• June 16 - August Winding
  August Winding
  August Winding was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
  
  , composer (b. 1835)
• August 17 - Erik Bøgh
  Erik Bøgh
  Erik Bøgh was a Danish journalist, playwright and songwriter. From 1881-1899 he worked at the Royal Danish Theatre. He died in Copenhagen.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
  
  , journalist, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1822)
• October 10 - Allan James Foley, operatic bass (b. 1837)
• October 13 - Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
  Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
  Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was a French organ builder. He is considered by many to be the greatest organ builder of the 19th century because he combined both science and art to make his instruments...
  
  , organ-builder
• October 15 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
  Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
  Johann Nepomuk Fuchs was an Austrian composer and conductor, and the brother of Robert Fuchs.Fuchs was born at Frauental, Styria. He worked as a conductor in Bratislava, Brno, Cologne, Hamburg, and Leipzig, before he became Kapellmeister of the Wiener Hofoper in 1880 and Vice Kapellmeister in 1894...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1842)
• October 22 - Ernst Mielck
  Ernst Mielck
  Ernst Mielck was a Finnish composer.Mielck was born in Vyborg. He started piano lessons at the age of ten; in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied under Max Bruch, one of the leading composers of the period. Bruch said of Mielck that he had "an easy, felicitous, and remarkable flair for...
  
  , composer (b. 1877)
• October 23 - Ludwig Straus
  Ludwig Straus
  Ludwig Straus was an Austrian violinist.He studied at the Vienna Conservatorium from 1843 to 1848, as a pupil of Böhm; made his first appearance in 1850, and five years afterwards made a tour in Italy; in 1857 he became acquainted with his lifelong friend, the cellist Piatti, and toured with him...
  
  , violinist
• November 16 - Vincas Kudirka
  Vincas Kudirka
  Vincas Kudirka was a Lithuanian poet and physician, and the author of both the music and lyrics of the Lithuanian National Anthem, Tautiška giesmė. He is regarded in Lithuania as a National Hero. Kudirka used pen names - V...
  
  , lyricist of the Lithuanian national anthem
• November 25 - Robert Lowry, hymn writer (b. 1826)
• December 18 - Gussie Davis
  Gussie Davis
  Gussie Lord Davis was an African-American songwriter born in Dayton, Ohio. Davis was one of America's earliest successful African-American music artists, having been the first Black songwriter to acquire fame on Tin Pan Alley as a composer of popular music.-Early life:Gussie Davis received...
  
  , songwriter (b. 1863)
• December 21 - Charles Lamoureux
  Charles Lamoureux
  Charles Lamoureux was a French conductor and violinist.He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854. He was subsequently engaged as a violinist at the Opéra and later joined the Société...
  
  , conductor and violinist
• December 31 - Karl Millöcker
  Karl Millöcker
  Carl Joseph Millöcker , was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1842)
• date unknown - Ernst Mielck
  Ernst Mielck
  Ernst Mielck was a Finnish composer.Mielck was born in Vyborg. He started piano lessons at the age of ten; in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied under Max Bruch, one of the leading composers of the period. Bruch said of Mielck that he had "an easy, felicitous, and remarkable flair for...
  
  , composer