Events

• January 14 - Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
  's Tosca
  Tosca
  Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
  
  receives its première in Rome.
• February 2 - Gustave Charpentier
  Gustave Charpentier
  Gustave Charpentier, , born in Dieuze, Moselle on 25 June 1860, died Paris, 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.-Life and career:...
  
  's opera Louise receives its première in Paris; Mary Garden
  Mary Garden
  Mary Garden , was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century...
  
   makes her public debut in the title role in April.
• October 3 - 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 The Dream of Gerontius
  The Dream of Gerontius
  The Dream of Gerontius, popularly called just Gerontius, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory...
  
  receives its première in Birmingham.
• The Philadelphia Orchestra
  Philadelphia Orchestra
  The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
  
   is founded.
• The Honolulu Symphony
  Honolulu Symphony
  The Honolulu Symphony, also known as the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, was founded in 1900. The Honolulu Symphony is the oldest symphony orchestra in the USA west of the Rocky Mountains. Originally housed in a clubhouse on the slopes of Punchbowl, the Honolulu Symphony now plays from the Neal S...
  
   Orchestra is founded.

Published popular music

• "Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (Longing to Be Near Your Side)" w. Arthur Gillespie m. Herbert Dillea
• "A Bird in a Gilded Cage
  A Bird in a Gilded Cage
  "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" is a song composed by Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer . It was a sentimental ballad that became one of the most popular songs of 1900, reportedly selling more than two million copies in sheet music...
  
  " 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. 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...
  
  
• "The Blue and the Gray
  The Blue and the Gray (song)
  The Blue and the Gray is a song composed by Paul Dresser. It was a sentimental ballad, written in what came to be known as “mother-and-home” style for which Dresser was known...
  
   (or A Mother's Gift to Her Country)" 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...
  
  
• "Bridge Of Sighs" w.m. James Thornton
• "Calligan - Call Again!" w.m. Herbert Rutter & Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
  
• "Calling To Her Boy Just Once Again" 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...
  
  
• "Creole Belles" w. George Sidney m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
  J. Bodewalt Lampe
  Jens Bodewalt Lampe was a Danish-born American composer, arranger, performer and band-leader of ragtime and syncopated dance music. With the exception of Scott Joplin, Lampe was possibly the most famous composer of ragtime songs of the early-20th century.Lampe was born in Ribe, Denmark to...
  
  
• "The Duchess Of Central Park" w. J. Cheaver Goodwin m. Maurice Levi
• "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon
  Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon
  "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" was a 1900 coon song written by Will A. Heelan and J. Fred Helf that was popular in the U.S. and Britain. The song followed the previous success of "All Coons Look Alike to Me", written in 1896 by Ernest Hogan. H.L. Mencken cites it as being one of the three...
  
  " w.m. 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...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "Eyes Of Blue" 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 :...
  
  
• "The Fatal Rose of Red" - 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...
  
  
• "The Flight Of The Bumble Bee
  Flight of the Bumblebee
  "Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. The piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, during which the magic Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon Saltanovich into an insect so that he can fly away to...
  
  " m. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
  
• "A Flower From The Garden Of Life" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
  Thurland Chattaway
  Thurland Chattaway was a popular music composer, active from approximately 1898 to 1912. Most famous for writing the words to the popular hit "Red Wing". Other songs include "Little Black Me" and "Can't You Take It Back and Change It For a Boy"....
  
  
• "For Old Time's Sake" 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"...
  
  
• "The Gladiators' Entry
  Entrance of the Gladiators
  "Entrance of the Gladiators" or "Entry of the Gladiators" is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius Fučík...
  
  " m. Julius Fučík
  Julius Fucík (composer)
  Julius Arnost Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.Fučík spent most of his life as the leader of military brass bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 300 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name...
  
  
• "Hail To The Spirit Of Liberty" w.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....
  
  
• "Hunky Dory" 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...
  
  
• "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "I Love You, Ma Cherie" w.m. Paul Rubens
• "I Must Have Been A-Dreamin' " w.m. Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
  
• "I Need The Money" w.m. Raymond A. Browne
• "I Won't Be an Actor No More" 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....
  
  
• "In The House Of Too Much Trouble" w.m. 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...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "I've A Longing In My Heart For You Louise" 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"...
  
  
• "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes" w.m. John Queen & Hughie Cannon
  Hughie Cannon
  Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 and died in 1912 in Toledo.-His Works and Bio:His best known composition was the popular song Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. He wrote the song at the age of sixteen and this ragtime song was published in 1902...
  
  
• "Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing" w. James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Little Tommy Murphy" w. Matthew Woodward m. Andrew Mack
• "A Love-Lorn Lily" w. Louis Harrison & George V. Hobart m. A. B. Sloane
• "Ma Blushin' Rosie" w. Edgar Smith
  Edgar Smith
  Edgar Smith is an American convicted murderer, who was once on Death Row for the 1957 murder of fifteen-year-old honor student and cheer leader Victoria Ann Zielinski. Vigorously contesting his conviction through the courts and in the media, Smith became a celebrity, and his case was argued in...
  
   m. John Stromberg
• "Midnight Fire-Alarm" - H.J. Lincoln
• "My Charcoal Charmer" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "My Drowsy Babe" w. George Totten Smith m. George A. Nichols
• "My Sunflower Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and theatrical producer who became popular during the era known as the Gay Nineties-Early life:...
  
  
• "Nothing Doing" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "Off To Philadelphia" w. Gordon Temple m. Walter B. Haynes
• "Oh! Wouldn't That Jar You?" w.m. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
  
• "The Old Flag Never Touched The Ground" w.m. James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   & J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Song Of The Flea" - w. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
  
  ; m. Modest Moussorgsky
• "Strike Up the Band - Here Comes a Sailor" 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. Charles B. Ward
• "Swipesy" (Cakewalk) m. 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...
  
   and Arthur Marshall
  Arthur Marshall (ragtime composer)
  Arthur Marshall was an African-American composer and performer of ragtime music.Marshall was born on a farm in Saline County, Missouri, but a few years later his family moved to Sedalia, Missouri...
  
  
• "The Tale Of The Kangaroo" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustave Luders
• "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" w. Owen Hall m. 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...
  
  
• "That Old Sunny Window" w.m. Shelley
• "There Are Two Sides To A Story" w.m. 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...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "Violets" w. Julian Fane m. Ellen Wright
• "Wait" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick W. Bowers
• "When Reuben Comes To Town" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Maurice Levi
• "When The Birds Go North Again" w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
• "When The Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie Dear" w. Howard Graham 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...
  
  
• "Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs Murphy's Chowder?" w.m. George L. Giefer
• "You Never Miss The Water Till The Well Runs Dry" w.m. Rowland Howard

Recorded popular music

• "American Patrol
  American Patrol
  "American Patrol" is a popular march written by F. W. Meacham in 1885. Written originally for piano, it was then arranged for wind band and published by Carly Discher in 1891. Meacham's widow renewed the copyright in 1912. It was later arranged for Glenn Miller's swing band by Jerry Gray in 1941,...
  
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  - Sousa's Band
• "A Bird in a Gilded Cage
  A Bird in a Gilded Cage
  "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" is a song composed by Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer . It was a sentimental ballad that became one of the most popular songs of 1900, reportedly selling more than two million copies in sheet music...
  
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  - 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....
  
  
• "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey"
  - S. H. Dudley
• "The Duchess Of Central Park"
  - 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....
  
  
• "For Old Time's Sake"
  - Will F. Denny
• "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes"
  - 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....
  
  
• "Lead, Kindly Light"
  - The Haydn Quartet
  The Haydn Quartet
  The Haydn Quartet was one of the most popular recording close harmony quartets in the early twentieth century.Originally Samuel Holland Rous formed a vocal quartet in 1896 to record for Edison’s studios...
  
  
• "A Love-Lorn Lily"
  - 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....
  
  
• "Ma Blushin' Rosie"
  - Albert C. Campbell
• "My Sunflower Sue"
  - Arthur Collins with The Metropolitan Orchestra
• "O! That We Two Were Maying"
  - 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....
  
   & Florence Hayward
• "Strike Up the Band"
  - 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....
  
  
• "Tell Me Pretty Maiden"
  - 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...
  
   Chorus p. Paul Rubens
  Paul Rubens (composer)
  Paul Alfred Rubens was an English songwriter and librettist who wrote some of the most popular Edwardian musical comedies of the early twentieth century. He contributed to the success of dozens of musicals....
  
  
• "When Reuben Comes To Town"
  - 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 Victor Records
• "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"
  - Jere Mahoney
• "Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow"
  - Haydn Quartet

Classical music

• George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
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  • Impromptu, for piano
  • Die nächtliche Herschau, for baritone, choir, and orchestra
  • Octet for strings in C major, op. 7
  • Plugar, for mixed choir
• 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 in E-flat major, op. 8
• Alexander Goedicke
  Alexander Goedicke
  Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian composer and pianist.Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900...
  
   - Piano Concerto
• Joseph Holbrooke
  Joseph Holbrooke
  Joseph Charles Holbrooke was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was sometimes referred to as "the cockney Wagner".-Family:...
  
   - The Raven
• Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...
  
   - Requiem in D minor
• Josef Suk
  Josef Suk (composer)
  Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka...
  
   - Pieces for violin and piano

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...

• Gustave Charpentier
  Gustave Charpentier
  Gustave Charpentier, , born in Dieuze, Moselle on 25 June 1860, died Paris, 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.-Life and career:...
  
   - Louise
  Louise (opera)
  Louise is an opera in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspiration of the surrealists....
  
  
• César Cui
  César Cui
  César Antonovich Cui was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a...
  
   - Feast in Time of Plague
• August Enna
  August Enna
  August Enna was a Danish composer, known mainly for his operas.Enna was born in Denmark, but his ethnic origins lay in the town of Enna in Sicily. His first major success as a composer was The Witch , which was followed by several popular operas, songs, two symphonies , and a violin concerto...
  
   - The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.- Biography :...
  
   - Asya
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Zaza
• Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
   - Tosca
  Tosca
  Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
  
  
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
   - The Tale of Tsar Saltan
  The Tale of Tsar Saltan
  The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan is an 1831 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, written after the Russian fairy tale edited by Vladimir Dahl...
  
  
• George Stephanescu
  George Stephanescu
  George Stephănescu was a Romanian composer, one of the main figures in Romanian national opera.He graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Music...
  
   - Cometa

Musical theater

• The Cadet Girl: Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on July 25 and ran for 48 performances
• The Casino Girl: London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre
  Shaftesbury Theatre
  The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The theatre was designed for the brothers Walter and Frederick Melville by Bertie Crewe and opened on 26 December 1911 with a production of The Three Musketeers, as the New...
  
   on April 25
• Chris And The Wonderful Lamp: Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater
  Victoria Theater (New York City)
  Located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, the Victoria Theater was designed in 1917 by Thomas W. Lamb, a notable and prolific theater architect of the era, for the Loew’s Corporation....
  
   on January 1 and ran for 58 performances
• Fiddle-Dee-Dee: Broadway production opened at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall on September 6 and ran for 262 performances
• 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...
  
  : Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 10 and ran for 505 performances, while its run at 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...
  
  's Lyric Theatre (opened November 1899) continued throughout the year (closing in March 1901 after 455 performances)
• Giddy Throng: Broadway revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the New York Theatre
  Olympia Theatre (New York)
  The Olympia Theatre , also known as Hammerstein's Olympia, was a theatre complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I in Longacre Square , New York City, opening in 1895. It consisted of a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden...
  
   on December 24 and ran for 164 performances
• The Messenger Boy
  The Messenger Boy
  The Messenger Boy is a musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner and Alfred Murray, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, with additional numbers by Paul Rubens. The story concerned a rascally financier who tries to discredit a rival in love...
  
  : London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on February 3 and ran for 429 performances
• Miss Prinnt: Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater
  Victoria Theater (New York City)
  Located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, the Victoria Theater was designed in 1917 by Thomas W. Lamb, a notable and prolific theater architect of the era, for the Loew’s Corporation....
  
   on December 25 and ran for 211 performances
• The Rogers Brothers In Central Park: Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater
  Victoria Theater (New York City)
  Located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, the Victoria Theater was designed in 1917 by Thomas W. Lamb, a notable and prolific theater architect of the era, for the Loew’s Corporation....
  
   on September 17 and transferred to the Grand Opera House
  Pike's Opera House
  Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theatre in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in Chelsea, Manhattan.His other Pike's Opera House, in Cincinnati, burned in the Great Fire of Cincinnati, in 1866. Rebuilt after the fire, and the first...
  
   on April 1, 1901 for a total run of 80 performances
• 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...
  
  : Broadway production 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 October 1 and ran for 65 performances
• Véronique (operetta)
  Véronique (operetta)
  Véronique is an opéra comique or operetta in three acts composed by André Messager. The French libretto was by Georges Duval and Albert Vanloo...
  
  : Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien
  Theater an der Wien
  The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...
  
   on March 10

Births

• January 1 - Xavier Cugat
  Xavier Cugat
  Xavier Cugat was a Spanish-American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman...
  
  , bandleader (d. 1990)
• January 6 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud
  Pierre-Octave Ferroud
  Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer of classical music.He was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin...
  
  , French composer (d. 1936)
• January 13 - Yasuji Kiyose
  Yasuji Kiyose
  Yasuji Kiyose was a Japanese composer. He studied composition privately with Kōsaku Yamada and Kōsuke Komatsu and in 1930, took an active part in organizing the Shinkō Sakkyokuka Renmei, .In 1948, Kiyose took on Hiroyoshi Suzuki and Tōru Takemitsu for a brief period as...
  
  , Japanese composer (d. 1981)
• February 13 - Wingy Manone
  Wingy Manone
  Wingy Manone was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader. His major recordings included "Tar Paper Stomp", "Nickel in the Slot", "Downright Disgusted Blues", "There'll Come a Time ", and "Tailgate Ramble".- Biography :Manone was born Joseph Matthews Mannone in New Orleans,...
  
  , U.S. jazz musician (d. 1982)
• March 2 - Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  , German composer. (d. 1950)
• March 10 - Peter De Rose, US composer (d. 1953)
• April 2 - Anis Fuleihan
  Anis Fuleihan
  Anis Fuleihan was a Cypriot-born American composer, conductor and pianist.A native of Kyrenia, Fuleihan belongs to a Christian Lebanese family; he attended the English School in that town before coming to the United States in 1915...
  
  , Cypriot-born US composer (d. 1970)
• April 8 - Gavriel Mullokandov
  Gavriel Mullokandov
  Gavriel Mullokandov is widely regarded as the greatest Bukharian Jewish singer and musician. He was the People’s Artist of Uzbekistan....
  
  , Bukharian Jewish singer and musician (d. 1972)
• April 11 - Kai Normann Andersen
  Kai Normann Andersen
  Kai Normann Andersen was a Danish composer and film score composer.In the 1930s he contributed prolifically to the score of films directed by George Schnéevoigt including Præsten i Vejlby , Hotel Paradis - 1931, Skal vi vædde en million? - 1932, Kirke og orgel - 1932, Odds 777 - 1932, De blaa...
  
  , Danish composer (d. 1967)
• April 23 - Henry Barraud
  Henry Barraud
  Henry Barraud was a French composer.He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods...
  
  , French composer (d. 1997)
• May 17 - Nicolai Berezowsky
  Nicolai Berezowsky
  Nicolai Tikhonovich Berezowsky was a Russian-born American violinist and composer.He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 17, 1900, graduating from the Imperial Capella with honors when he was sixteen. As a young boy singer in the chapel choir, he recalled singing for the Tsar's family and...
  
  , Russian composer (d.1953)
• May 28 - Tommy Ladnier
  Tommy Ladnier
  Thomas J. "Tommy" Ladnier was an American jazz trumpeter. Clarinetist/writer Mezz Mezzrow rated him second only to Louis Armstrong....
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1939)
• June 15 - Paul Mares
  Paul Mares
  Paul Mares , was an American early dixieland jazz cornet & trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.Mares was born in New Orleans. His father, Joseph E...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1949)
• June 24 - Gene Austin
  Gene Austin
  Gene Austin was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.-Career:...
  
  , US singer and composer (d. 1972)
• July 8 - George Antheil
  George Antheil
  George Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. A self-described "Bad Boy of Music", his modernist compositions amazed and appalled listeners in Europe and the US during the 1920s with their cacophonous celebration of mechanical devices.Returning permanently to...
  
  , composer (d.1959)
• July 10
  • Evelyn Laye
    Evelyn Laye
    Evelyn Laye, CBE was an English theatre and film actress.-Early years and career:Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr...
    
    , English actress and singer (d. 1996)
  • Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...
    
    , US lyricist (d. 1993)
• July 13 - George Lewis
  George Lewis (clarinetist)
  George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.-Ancestry:...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1968)
• July 29 - Don Redman
  Don Redman
  Donald Matthew Redman was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader and composer.Redman was announced as a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame on May 6, 2009....
  
  , US arranger, bandleader and saxophonist (d. 1964)
• August 2 - Helen Morgan
  Helen Morgan
  Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s...
  
  , US singer and actress (d. 1941)
• August 8 - Lucius "Lucky" Millinder
  Lucky Millinder
  Lucius Venable "Lucky" Millinder was an American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader. Although he could not read or write music, did not play an instrument and rarely sang, his showmanship and musical taste made his bands successful...
  
  , US bandleader (d. 1966)
• August 23 - Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
  
  , composer (d. 1991)
• September 3 - Eduard van Beinum
  Eduard van Beinum
  Eduard van Beinum was a Dutch conductor.-Biography:Beinum was born in Arnhem, Netherlands, where he received his first violin and piano lessons at an early age. He joined the Arnhem Orchestra as a violinist in 1918. His grandfather was conductor of a military band...
  
  , Dutch conductor (d. 1959)
• October 9 - Elmer Snowden
  Elmer Snowden
  Elmer Snowden was a banjo player of the jazz age. He also played guitar and, in the early stages of his career, all the reed instruments. He contributed greatly to jazz in its early days as both a player and a bandleader, and is responsible for launching the careers of many top musicians...
  
  , banjo player (d. 1973)
• November 14 - Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  , composer (d. 1990)
• November 25 - Arthur Schwartz
  Arthur Schwartz
  Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...
  
  , US composer (d. 1984)
• November 27 - Robert Blum, Swiss composer (d. 1994)
• December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr.
  Sammy Davis, Sr.
  Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Sr. was an American dancer and the father of Sammy Davis, Jr..-Birth and Personal Life:...
  
  , vaudeville entertainer (d. 1988)
• December 14 - Juan D'Arienzo
  Juan D'Arienzo
  Juan d'Arienzo was an Argentine tango musician, also known as "El Rey del Compás" . Departing from other orchestras of the golden age, D'Arienzo returned to the 2x4 feel that characterized music of the old guard, but he used more modern arrangements and instrumentation...
  
  , tango musician (d. 1976)
• December 17 - Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
  Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
  Lucijan Marija Škerjanc was a Slovene composer, pedagogue, conductor, musician, and writer who was accomplished on and wrote for a number of musical instruments such as the piano, violin and clarinet....
  
  , Slovene composer, pedagogue and conductor (d. 1973)
• December 29 - B. H. Haggin
  B. H. Haggin
  Bernard H. Haggin , better known as B.H. Haggin, was an American music critic.-Early life:A lifelong inhabitant of New York City, he graduated from Juilliard School in 1920, where he studied piano.He published his first article in 1923...
  
  , music critic (d. 1987)

Deaths

• January 22 - David E. Hughes
  David E. Hughes
  David Edward Hughes , was a British scientist and musician. Hughes was co-inventor of the microphone, a harpist and a professor of music.-Biography:...
  
  , musician and inventor (b.1831)
• February 3 - Ottokar Novacek
  Ottokar Novacek
  ; May 13, 1866, Fehertémplom , southern Hungary – February 3, 1900, New York City) was an Hungarian violinist and composer of Czech descent and is perhaps best known for his work Perpetuum Mobile .- Family lineage :...
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1866)
• March 9 - Charles-Louis Hanon
  Charles-Louis Hanon
  Charles-Louis Hanon was a French piano pedagogue and composer. He is best known for his work The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises, which has become the most widely used set of exercises in modern piano teaching....
  
  , composer and piano teacher (b.1819)
• March 10 - Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
  Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
  Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann was a Danish composer.-Biography:Hartmann came from a musical family of German descent. Although he received his music lessons initially from his father, he taught himself as much as possible...
  
  , composer (b. 1805)
• March 13 - Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
  Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
  Alicia Scott, née Alicia Ann Spottiswoode was a Scottish songwriter and composer known chiefly for the tune, "Annie Laurie", to which the words of a 17th century poet, William Douglas, were set.-Biography:...
  
  , songwriter (b. 1810)
• April 21 - Charles Beecher
  Charles Beecher
  Charles Beecher was an American minister, composer of religious hymns, and prolific author.Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of Lyman Beecher, an abolitionist Congregationalist preacher from Boston and Roxana Foote Beecher...
  
  , hymn-writer (b. 1815)
• May 28 - George Grove
  George Grove
  Sir George Grove, CB was an English writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians....
  
  , compiler of the well-known dictionary of music (b. 1820)
• October 9 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg
  Heinrich von Herzogenberg
  Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family....
  
  , conductor and compoer (b. 1843)
• October 14 - Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich
  Zdenek Fibich
  Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...
  
  , composer (b. 1850)
• November 7 - Joseph Schalk
  Joseph Schalk
  Joseph Schalk was an Austrian conductor, musicologist and pianist. His name is often given as Josef Schalk....
  
  , pianist, conductor and musicologist (b. 1857)
• November 14 - Adolf Pollitzer
  Adolf Pollitzer
  Adolf Pollitzer, also Adolph Pollitzer was a Hungarian Jewish violinist.In 1842, he left Budapest for Vienna, where he studied the violin under Joseph Böhm at the Vienna Conservatory; and in his 14th year he took the first prize at the Conservatory. After a concert tour in Germany, he went to...
  
  , violinist (b. 1832)
• November 17 - Heinrich Porges
  Heinrich Porges
  Heinrich Porges was a Czech-Austrian choirmaster, music critic and writer of Jewish descent.-Life:...
  
  , choirmaster and music critic (b. 1837)
• November 22 - 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...
  
  , composer (b. 1842)
• date unknown
  • Louis Liebe
    Louis Liebe
    Louis Liebe was a German conductor and composer who was a pupil of Louis Spohr. He became musical director at Worms. One of his pupils was Friedrich Gernsheim....
    
    , conductor and composer (b. 1819)
  • Jovan Sundečić
    Jovan Sundecic
    Jovan Sundečić , was a Serbian poet from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a secretary of Prince Nikola I of Montenegro...
    
    , lyricist of the Montenegro national anthem (b. 1825)