Events

• February - Abyssinia premiered at the Majestic Theatre (Broadway), with a score co-written by Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
  , including premiere of Nobody
  Nobody (1905 song)
  "Nobody" is a popular song with music by Bert Williams and lyrics by Alex Rogers, published in 1905.The song premiered in February 1906, in the Broadway production "Abyssinia." The show, which included live camels, premiered at the Majestic Theater and continued the string of hits for the...
  
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• May 27 - Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische , was composed between 1903 and 1904 . The work's first performance was in Essen, on May 27, 1906, conducted by the composer.The tragic, even nihilistic ending of No...
  
  is premiered in Essen.
• Amelita Galli-Curci
  Amelita Galli-Curci
  Amelita Galli-Curci was an Italian operatic soprano. She was one of the best-known coloratura singers of the early 20th century with her gramophone records selling in large numbers.-Early life:...
  
   makes her operatic debut.

Published popular music

• "Abraham Jefferson Washington Lee" 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...
  
  
• "Ain't You Coming Back To Old New Hampshire, Molly?" w. Robert F. Roden 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...
  
  
• "Alice, Where Art Thou Going?" Heelan, Gumble
• "All In Down And Out" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Chris Smith, Billy B. Smith & Elmer Bowman
• "Anchors Aweigh
  Anchors Aweigh
  "Anchors Aweigh" is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy, and strongly associated with the United States Navy, composed in 1906 by Charles A. Zimmerman with lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles. Zimmerman was at the time a Lieutenant, and had been bandmaster of the United States Naval Academy...
  
  " w. Alfred Hart Miles & R. Lovell m. Charles A. Zimmerman
  Charles A. Zimmerman
  Charles A. Zimmermann was an American composer of marches and popular music. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, he was appointed bandmaster at the United States Naval Academy in 1887 at the age of 26. He served as the Academy's bandmaster until his death from a brain...
  
  
• "Andulko Safárova" Kmoch
• "Anxious" William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
  , Jean Kendis, Paley
• "Are You Coming Out Tonight, Mary Ann?" 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
  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...
  
  
• "Arrah Wanna" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse was an American composer of popular songs.Born in Washington D.C., Morse was educated at the Maryland Military & Naval Academy. He went on to study both violin and piano. He and his wife, Theodora Morse, became a successful songwriting team for Tin Pan Alley...
  
  
• "At Dawning" w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman
• "Because You're You" w. Henry Blossom 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...
  
  
• "The Bee That Gets The Honey Doesn't Hang Around The Hive" w. Ed Rose m. J. Fred Helf
• "The Bird On Nellie's Hat" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "The Buffalo Rag" Tom Turpin
  Tom Turpin
  Thomas Million John Turpin was an African-American composer of ragtime music.Tom Turpin was born in Savannah, Georgia, a son of John L. Turpin and Lulu Waters Turpin. In his early twenties he opened a saloon in St...
  
  
• "By The Side Of The Zuyder Zee" w. A. J. Mills m. Bennett Scott
• "Captain Baby Bunting Of The Rocking Horse Brigade" w. Ed Gardinier & 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. J. Fred Helf
• "Cheyenne
  Cheyenne (song)
  "Cheyenne" is a popular and sentimental song written in 1906, with words by Harry Williams and music by Egbert Van Alstyne. It became a hit for a number of artists. The chorus is:...
  
  " w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
  Egbert Van Alstyne
  Egbert Anson Van Alstyne was a United States songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes from the early 20th century.He was born in Marengo, Illinois...
  
  
• "Colleen Bawn" w. Edward Madden
  Edward Madden
  Edward Madden was an American lyricist.Madden was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. After graduation he wrote material for many singers including Fanny Brice and for vaudeville acts...
  
   m. J. Fred Helf
• "College Life" w. Porter Emerson Browne m. Henry Frantzen
• "Come, Take A Skate With Me" w.m. Raymond Brown & 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:...
  
  
• "Crocodile Isle" Morse
• "Dill Pickles Rag" m. Charles L. Johnson
• "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do" w. William Cahill m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "Don't You Think It's Time To Marry?" Edwards
• "Dreaming" w. L. W. Heiser m. J. Anton Dailey
• "Every Day Is Ladies' Day To Me" w. Henry Blossom
  Henry Blossom
  Henry Martyn Blossom was the lyricist for several Victor Herbert musicals, including The Yankee Consul , Mlle. Modiste , The Red Mill , Eileen , and Kiss Me Again , and was a master at puzzle solving and cipher writing.Born in St...
  
   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...
  
  
• "The Free Lance 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....
  
  
• "Frog Legs Rag" m. James Scott
  James Scott (musician)
  James Sylvester Scott was an African-American ragtime composer, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb....
  
  
• "The Game Of Peek-a-Boo" Edwards
• "Girlie, I Love You" Morse
• "The Good Old USA" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "The Grand Old Rag" (aka "You're a Grand Old Flag
  You're a Grand Old Flag
  "You're a Grand Old Flag" is a patriotic song of the United States. The song, a spirited march written by George M. Cohan, is a tribute to the U.S. flag. In addition to obvious references to the flag, it incorporates snippets of other popular songs, including one of his own...
  
  ") 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....
  
  
• "He Walked Right In Turned Around And Walked Right Out Again" w. Edward Rose m. Maxwell Silver
• "Here's To Our Absent Brothers" w.m. J. Fred Helf
• "He's A Cousin Of Mine" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein
• "Highland Birthday Party" w.m. Hector Grant
• "Holding Hands (You Don't Say Nothing At All)" w. Jack Norworth
  Jack Norworth
  Jack Norworth was a U.S. songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer.Norworth is credited as co-writer of a number of Tin Pan Alley hits. He wrote the lyrics of the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in 1908, his most long lasting hit. But it wasn't until 1940 that he actually witnessed a Major...
  
   m. Albert Von Tilzer
  Albert Von Tilzer
  Albert Von Tilzer was an American songwriter, the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"....
  
  
• "Honora H. Doolin" Mills
• "I Don't Like Your Family" Howard
• "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave" 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...
  
   & 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 Miss You In A Thousand Different Ways" 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 Never Saw Such Jealousy In My Life" 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
  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...
  
  
• "I Was Born In Virginia" 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....
  
  
• "Ida-Ho!" Von Tilzer
• "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" w.m. Harry Hoyt

• "I'm Sorry" Von Tilzer
• "In Old New York" w. Henry Blossom 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...
  
  
• "Is It Warm Enough For You?" Paley
• "I've Said My Last Farewell" Sischer
• "Just One Word Of Consolation" w. Frank B. Williams m. Tom Lemonier
• "Keep On The Sunny Side
  Keep On the Sunny Side
  Keep On the Sunny Side is a popular American song originally written in 1899 by Ada Blenkhorn with music by J. Howard Entwisle . The song was popularized in a 1928 recording by the Carter Family...
  
  " w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse was an American composer of popular songs.Born in Washington D.C., Morse was educated at the Maryland Military & Naval Academy. He went on to study both violin and piano. He and his wife, Theodora Morse, became a successful songwriting team for Tin Pan Alley...
  
  
• "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (If You Want To Learn To Kiss)" 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. Gertrude Hoffmann
• "Lassie, Dinna Sigh For Me" w.m. Hector Grant
• "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love" w. M. E. Rourke
  Herbert Reynolds
  Michael Elder Rourke , who assumed the pen name Herbert Reynolds in 1913, was an Irish-American lyricist.Reynolds wrote the lyrics to Jerome Kern's first big hit, "They Didn't Believe Me", interpolated into the 1914 American version of The Girl from Utah, produced by Charles Frohman...
  
   m. Richard Carle
• "Let Bygones Be Bygones And Let Us Be Sweethearts Again" w. Alex Rogers
  Alex Rogers
  Alex Rogers born 16 December, 1986 in England is a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership. He plays as a prop.-External links:*...
  
   m. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
  
• "Let It Alone" w. Alex Rogers
  Alex Rogers
  Alex Rogers born 16 December, 1986 in England is a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership. He plays as a prop.-External links:*...
  
   m. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
  
• "Let Me See You Smile" Fischer
• "The Little Chauffeur" Bowers
• "The Load That Father Carried" w. Frank Fogerty m. J. B. Mullen
• "Love Me And The World Is Mine" w. Dave Reed Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
  Ernest Ball
  Ernest R. Ball was a United States singer and songwriter, most famous for composing the music for the song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" in 1912. He was not, himself, Irish....
  
  
• "Mississippi Sunflower" (characteristic march & two-step) m. Otto and John Heinzman
• "Moonbeams" w. Henry Blossom
  Henry Blossom
  Henry Martyn Blossom was the lyricist for several Victor Herbert musicals, including The Yankee Consul , Mlle. Modiste , The Red Mill , Eileen , and Kiss Me Again , and was a master at puzzle solving and cipher writing.Born in St...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Moonlight Dance" m. Herman Finck
• "Mr Monkey" Edwards
• "My Mariuccia Take A Steamboat" w. George Ronklyn m. Al Piantodosi
• "National Emblem March" w. E. E. Bagley
• "The Next Horse I Ride On" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
• "Not Because Your Hair Is Curly" w.m. Bob Adams
• "Nothing Like That In Our Family" Heelan, Furth
• "Poor John" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
• "The Poor Old Man" w.m. Vincent Bryan
• "School Days
  School Days (1907 song)
  "School Days", also known as "School Days ", is an American popular song written in 1907 by Will Cobb and Gus Edwards. Its subject is a mature man and woman looking back sentimentally on their lifelong friendship and their days in primary school.The best known part of the song is its chorus:* ,...
  
  " 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:...
  
  
• "Since Father Went To Work" w.m. William Cahill
• "Some One Looks Good To Some One" Weaver
• "The Streets Of New York" w. Henry Blossom
  Henry Blossom
  Henry Martyn Blossom was the lyricist for several Victor Herbert musicals, including The Yankee Consul , Mlle. Modiste , The Red Mill , Eileen , and Kiss Me Again , and was a master at puzzle solving and cipher writing.Born in St...
  
   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...
  
   from the musical The Red Mill
  The Red Mill
  The Red Mill is an operetta written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Henry Blossom. It premiered on Broadway on September 24, 1906 at the Knickerbocker Theatre and ran for 274 performances, starring comedians Fred Stone and David Montgomery. It was revived on October 16, 1945, opening at the...
  
  
• "Sunbonnet Sue" 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:...
  
  
• "Sweet Anastasia Brady" Schwartz
• "That's The Reason Noo I Wear A Kilt" w.m. A. B. Kendal & 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:...
  
  
• "Waltz Me Around Again Willie" 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. Ren Shields
• "We Parted On The Shore" w.m. 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:...
  
  
• "We've Been Chums For Fifty Years" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
• "What A Mouth" w.m. R. P. Weston
  R. P. Weston
  Robert Patrick Weston was an English songwriter. He was born and died in London. Among other songs, he co-authored , "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm", a macabre little ditty about the ghost of Anne Boleyn haunting the Tower of London, seeking revenge on Henry VIII for having her...
  
  
• "What's The Use Of Dreaming?" w.m. Joseph E. Howard
• "What's The Use Of Loving If You Can't Love All The Time" w. Joseph Mittenthal m. Harry Armstrong
• "When Love Is Young In Springtime" w.m. Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   & Melville Ellis
• "When The Whip-poor-will Sings, Marguerite" w. C. M. Denison 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...
  
  
• "When Tommy Atkins Marries Dolly Gray" 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:...
  
  
• "When You Know You're Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget" w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf
• "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning" 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. 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....
  
  
• "Whistle It!" Blossom, Herbert
• "Wonderland" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
• "Won't You Come Over To My House" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Wouldn't You Like To Flirt with Me?" Rogers
• "You Can Have Broadway" 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....
  
   from the musical George Washington, Junior
• "You Can't Give Your Heart To Somebody Else And Still Hold Hands With Me" Edwards

Classical music

• Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
  
   - Three Idylls for String Quartet, Quartet no. 1 in E minor Bologna
• Grigoraş Dinicu
  Grigoras Dinicu
  Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for "nai"...
  
   - Hora staccato
  Hora staccato
  Hora staccato is a virtuoso violin showpiece by Grigoraş Dinicu. It is a short, fast work in a Romanian hora style, and has become a favorite encore of violinists, especially in the 1932 arrangement by Jascha Heifetz. The piece requires an exceptional command of both upbow and downbow staccato...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - The Kingdom (oratorio)
• 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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  • Concertstück, for viola and piano
  • Decet for winds in D major, op. 14
  • Légende, for trumpet and piano
• Charles Ives
  Charles Ives
  Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
  
   - Central Park in the Dark
  Central Park in the Dark
  Central Park in the Dark is a music composition by Charles Ives for chamber orchestra. It was composed in 1906 and has been paired with The Unanswered Question as part of “Two Contemplations” and Hallowe’en and The Pond in “Three Outdoor Scenes.”...
  
  
• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
   - Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische , was composed between 1903 and 1904 . The work's first performance was in Essen, on May 27, 1906, conducted by the composer.The tragic, even nihilistic ending of No...
  
   (3rd version)
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   - String Quartet No. 4 in F major
  String Quartet No. 4 (Nielsen)
  Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 4 in F major or Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F major, Opus 44, was composed between February and July 1906...
  
  , op. 44
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
   - Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
   - Serenade in G for orchestra op. 95
• 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...
  
   - Chamber Symphony No. 1
• 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...
  
   - Symphony No. 2 Asrael finished
• Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
  
   - Piano Quartet in E major op. 20
• Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
  
   - Un grand sommeil noir
• Anton Webern
  Anton Webern
  Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
  
   - Rondo for string quartet

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...

• Walter Braunfels
  Walter Braunfels
  -Life:Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt am Main. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr . He continued his piano studies in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory with James Kwast....
  
   - Falada
• 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...
  
   - Ariane
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   - Maskarade
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
   - Francesca Da Rimini
  Francesca da Rimini
  Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.-Arranged marriage:...
  
  
• Dame Ethel Smyth
  Ethel Smyth
  Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...
  
   - The Wreckers
  The Wreckers
  -Studio albums:-Live albums:-Singles:-Featured singles:^ Song was credited as Santana with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers.-Music videos:-Awards and nominations:-External links:***...
  
  
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna...
  
   - I quattro rusteghi
  I quattro rusteghi
  I quatro rusteghi is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century play I rusteghi. The opera is in Venetian dialect.-Performance history:The opera was first performed at the Hoftheater in Munich on...
  
  

Musical theater

• About Town Broadway production
• Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway
  Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
  Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. The play's title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway....
  
  Broadway production
• The Free Lance Broadway production
• George Washington, Junior Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 12 and ran for 81 performances.
• The Glass-Blowers Broadway production
• The Little Cherub London production
• The Red Mill
  The Red Mill
  The Red Mill is an operetta written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Henry Blossom. It premiered on Broadway on September 24, 1906 at the Knickerbocker Theatre and ran for 274 performances, starring comedians Fred Stone and David Montgomery. It was revived on October 16, 1945, opening at the...
  
  Broadway production
• Seeing New York Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 5 and ran for 75 performances
• The Spring Chicken
  The Spring Chicken
  The Spring Chicken is an English musical comedy adapted by George Grossmith, Jr. from Coquin de Printemps by Jaime and Duval, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and Grossmith, produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre, opening on 30 May...
  
  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 8 and transferred to the New Amsterdam Theatre
  New Amsterdam Theatre
  The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square...
  
   on December 10 and ran for a total of 91 performances.
• The Vicar of Wakefield
  The Vicar of Wakefield
  The Vicar of Wakefield is a novel by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians...
  
  London production

Births

• January 1 - Giovanni D'Anzi
  Giovanni D'Anzi
  Giovanni D'Anzi was an Italian songwriter.D'Anzi was born in Milan. In 1935 he wrote music and lyrics of "O mia bela Madonina" , a song dedicated to his hometown which soon became very popular and a sort of unofficial city anthem.Between 1930s and 1950s Giovanni D'Anzi and Alfredo Bracchi formed a...
  
  , Italian songwriter
• January 4 - Frankie Newton, American trumpeter
• January 27 - Radamés Gnattali
  Radamés Gnattali
  Radamés Gnattali , was a Brazilian classical composer, conductor, orchestrator, and arranger.Radamés Gnattali was born in Porto Alegre, the son of Alessandro Gnattali and Adélia Fossati. Both his father and mother were musicians...
  
  , Brazilian composer
• January 15 - Alessandro Cicognini
  Alessandro Cicognini
  Alessandro Cicognini was an Italian film music composer.Cicognini was classically trained at the Milan Conservatory of Music. He composed 106 soundtracks between 1936 and 1993, many of them for filmmaker Vittorio de Sica. His score for The Bicycle Thief was awarded Best Soundtrack of the Year...
  
  , film composer (d. 1995)
• January 31
  • Benjamin Frankel
    Benjamin Frankel
    Benjamin Frankel was a British composer. Frankel's most famous pieces include a cycle of five string quartets and eight symphonies as well as a number of concertos for violin and viola; his single best-known piece is probably the First Sonata for Solo Violin, which, like his concertos, resulted...
    
    , composer (d. 1973)
  • Roosevelt Sykes
    Roosevelt Sykes
    Roosevelt Sykes was an American blues musician, also known as "The Honeydripper". He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player, whose rollicking thundering boogie-woogie was highly influential.-Career:Born in Elmar, Arkansas, Sykes grew up near Helena but at age 15, went on...
    
    , blues musician (d. 1983
• February 1 - Hildegarde, actress, singer
• February 5 - Zara Levina
  Zara Levina
  Zara Aleksandrovna Levina , February 5, 1906 – Moscow, June 27, 1976) was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold metal...
  
  , pianist and composer (d. 1976)
• February 19 - Grace Williams
  Grace Williams
  -Biography:Williams was born in Barry, near Cardiff, Wales.She was educated at Barry County School, and won a scholarship to Cardiff University . She then went to the Royal College of Music, London, where she was taught by Ralph Vaughan Williams...
  
  , Welsh composer (d. 1977)
• February 21 - Jeanne Aubert
  Jeanne Aubert
  Jeanne Aubert was a French singer and actress.Born Marguerite Perrinot in Paris, France to an aristocratic father and a former flower girl, she was pushed by her mother into showbusiness. At age five, she began performing on stage at the Théâtre du Châtelet...
  
  , singer and actress (d. 1988)
• March 3 - Barney Bigard
  Barney Bigard
  Albany Leon Bigard, aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet....
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1980)
• March 13 - Frank Teschemacher
  Frank Teschemacher
  Frank Teschemacher was an American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist, associated with the "Austin High" gang...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1932)
• March 20 - Ozzie Nelson
  Ozzie Nelson
  Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American entertainer and band leader who originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons.-Early life:...
  
  , actor, band leader (d. 1975)
• March 25 - Jean Sablon
  Jean Sablon
  Jean Sablon was a popular French singer and actor.The son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne in Paris...
  
  , French singer (d. 1994)
• March 27 - Pee Wee Russell
  Pee Wee Russell
  Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1969)
• April 9 - Antal Doráti
  Antal Doráti
  Antal Doráti, KBE was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.-Biography:...
  
  , conductor (d. 1988)
• April 18 - Little Brother Montgomery
  Little Brother Montgomery
  Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer....
  
  , jazz musician
• May 23 - Lucha Reyes
  Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer)
  Maria de luz Flores , better known as Lucha Reyes, was a famous Mexican mariachi singer. She was a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco. She used the last name Reyes as a homage to her stepfather....
  
  , singer
• June 1 - Walter Legge
  Walter Legge
  Harry Walter Legge was an influential English classical record producer, most notably for EMI. His recordings include many sets later regarded as classics and reissued by EMI as "Great Recordings of the Century". He worked in the recording industry from 1927, combining this with the post of junior...
  
  , record producer (d. 1979)
• June 3 - Josephine Baker
  Josephine Baker
  Josephine Baker was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess"....
  
  , US singer, dancer and toast of Paris (d. 1975)
• June 26 - Alberto Rabagliati
  Alberto Rabagliati
  Alberto Rabagliati was an Italian singer.- Early career:Rabagliati was born in Milan.In 1927 he moved to Hollywood as the winner of a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest...
  
  , Italian singer and actor (d. 1974)
• June 28 - Safford Cape
  Safford Cape
  Safford Cape was an American conductor, composer and musicologist.Born and educated in Denver, Colorado, Cape moved to Belgium in 1925 to further his studies in composition and musicology. From 1933, after a few years of chamber music composition, Cape began focusing on the performance of medieval...
  
  , American conductor and musicologist (d. 1973)
• July 7 - Anton Karas
  Anton Karas
  Anton Karas was a Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man.-Early life:...
  
  , Austrian zither player and composer (d. 1985)
• July 30 - Ľudovít Rajter
  Ludovít Rajter
  Ľudovít Rajter was a Slovak composer and conductor of ethnic Hungarian origin. The Rayter family immigrated to Hungary from South-Germany, but were of Dutch origin...
  
  , Slovak composer (d. 2000)
• September 4 - Alexander Moyzes
  Alexander Moyzes
  Alexander Moyzes , was a Slovak 20th century neoromantic composer.-Biography:Moyzes was born into a musical family in 1906 at Kláštor pod Znievom in present Slovakia. His father was the composer and educator Mikuláš Moyzes...
  
  , Slovak composer and conductor (d. 1984)
• September 25
  • Jaroslav Ježek
    Jaroslav Ježek
    Jaroslav Ježek was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music.- Life :...
    
    , composer (d. 1942)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
    
    , composer
• September 30 - Mireille Hartuch
  Mireille Hartuch
  Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille"....
  
  , French singer (d. 1996)
• October 9 - Janis Ivanovs
  Janis Ivanovs
  Jānis Ivanovs was a Soviet Latvian classical music composer.In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist...
  
  , Latvia
  Latvia
  Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
  
  n composer (d. 1983)
• October 10 - Paul Creston
  Paul Creston
  Paul Creston was an Italian American composer of classical music.Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self‐taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter...
  
  , composer (d. 1985)
• October 15 - Victoria Spivey
  Victoria Spivey
  Victoria Spivey was an American blues singer and songwriter. She is best known for her recordings of "Dope Head Blues" and "Organ Grinder Blues", and Spivey variously worked with her sister, Addie "Sweet Pease" Spivey, and with Bob Dylan, Lonnie Johnson, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence...
  
  , US singer, pianist and composer (d. 1976)
• October 22 - Charles Lynch
  Charles Lynch (pianist)
  Charles Edgeworth Cagney Lynch was an Irish pianist who premiered works by several important 20th century composers.-Background and early life:...
  
  , Irish concert pianist (d. 1984)
• October 31 - Louise Talma
  Louise Talma
  Louise Talma was a composer. She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts , 1922–1930, and received her bachelor of music degree from New York University and masters of arts degree from Columbia University...
  
  , composer (d. 1996)
• November 3 - Alma Rosé
  Alma Rosé
  Alma Rosé was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. Alma Rosé was deported by the Nazis to the infamous concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she directed an orchestra of terrified prisoners who played to their captors in order that they...
  
  , violinist (d. 1944)
• November 9 - Pete Brown
  Pete Brown (jazz musician)
  James Ostend "Pete" Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader....
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1963)
• December 10 - Harold Adamson
  Harold Adamson
  For the Toronto Police Chief see Harold Adamson Harold Adamson was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s.- Biography :...
  
  , US lyricist (d. 1980)
• December 27 - Oscar Levant
  Oscar Levant
  Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...
  
  , pianist and actor (d. 1972)
• date unknown - Morgan Lewis
  Morgan Lewis (songwriter)
  Morgan 'Buddy' Lewis was a writer of jazz songs, some of which were also recorded in the pop music genre.-External links:...
  
  , songwriter

Deaths

• January 23 - Charles Hunter, ragtime composer (b. 1876)
• January 30 - 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...
  
  , US composer (b. 1857)
• February 25 - Anton Arensky
  Anton Arensky
  Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...
  
  , composer (b. 1861)
• March 22 - Martin Wegelius
  Martin Wegelius
  Martin Wegelius was a Finnish composer and musicologist, primarily remembered as the founder, in 1882, of the Helsinki Music Institute, now known as the Sibelius Academy.Wegelius studied in Leipzig, Vienna and Munich...
  
  , composer (b. 1846)
• April 25 - John Knowles Paine
  John Knowles Paine
  John Knowles Paine , was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music.-Life:He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years...
  
  , organist and composer (b. 1839)
• May 9 - Helen Lemmens-Sherrington
  Helen Lemmens-Sherrington
  Helen Lemmens-Sherrington was the leading English concert and operatic soprano of the 1860s.- Early life :Born in Preston, England, in 1834, Helen Sherrington studied singing at Rotterdam and Brussels...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1834)
• May 24 - Heinrich Reimann
  Heinrich Reimann
  Professor Dr. phil. Heinrich Reimann , was a German musicologist, organist, and composer.Reimann was born in Rengersdorf, Silesia, and was a son of Ignaz Reimann, also a musician...
  
  , organist and composer (b. 1850)
• May 30 - Enrique el Mellizo
  Enrique el Mellizo
  Enrique Jiménez Fernández , known as Enrique el Mellizo was a famous flamenco singer, the most influential one in the development of the Cádiz flamenco styles. Together with Silverio Franconetti and Antonio Chacón, he is considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of...
  
  , flamenco singer (b. 1848)
• June 7 - "Signor Brocolini
  Signor Brocolini
  John Clark, better known as Signor Brocolini , was an Irish-born American operatic singer remembered for creating the role of the Pirate King in the original New York City production of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, in 1879-80...
  
  ", opera singer (b. 1841)
• July 1 - Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García
  Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García
  Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García , was a Spanish singer, music educator, and vocal pedagogue.-Biography:García was born on 17 March 1805 in the town of Zafra in Badajoz Province, Spain. His father was singer and teacher Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodriguez García...
  
  , singer and music teacher (b. 1805)
• July 8 - Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (b. 1832)
• July 9 - Alfred Stelzner
  Alfred Stelzner
  Alfred Stelzner was a composer and designer of string instruments.Alfred Stelzner was born in Hamburg, Germany and educated in music, physics and mathematics. He produced string instruments of his own design in Wiesbaden and then in Dresden. Two instruments of his invention were the violotta and...
  
  , designer of musical instruments (b. 1852)
• July 29 - Alexandre Luigini
  Alexandre Luigini
  Alexandre Clément Léon Joseph Luigini was a French composer and conductor, especially active in the opera house. As as composer, he is now remembered almost solely for his Ballet égyptien.-Life and career:...
  
  , composer (b. 1850)
• August 26 - Eugen Gura
  Eugen Gura
  Eugen Gura was a German operatic baritone.Gura was born in Nové Sedlo, Louny District, Bohemia ....
  
  , opera singer (b. 1842)
• September 1 - Giuseppe Giacosa
  Giuseppe Giacosa
  Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist.He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin, studying in the University of Turin, Faculty of Law...
  
  , librettist for 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...
  
  
• December 14 - Federico Consolo
  Federico Consolo
  Federico Consolo was an Italian violinist and composer.-Background and earlier life:Federico Console was born at Ancona in 1841. After studying the violin with Giorgetti in Florence and Vieuxtemps in Brussels, and composition with Fétis and Liszt, he played with great success at almost all the...
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1841)
• December 30 - Eugène Goossens, père
  Eugène Goossens, père
  Eugène Goossens was a Belgian conductor.-Biography:He was born in Bruges and studied music as a child at the Church of Notre Dame, Bruges, then at the Bruges Conservatoire...
  
  , conductor (b. 1845)
• date unknown
  • Léon Gastinel
    Léon Gastinel
    Léon Gastinel was a French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Jacques Halévy and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1846 for his cantata Valasquez. While relatively unknown today, Gastinel wrote two complete masses, two symphonies and four oratorios...
    
    , composer (b. 1813)
  • Nissan Spivak
    Nissan Spivak
    Nisn Spivak was a Jewish cantor and composer.He was cantor in Bălţi , Bessarabia, and was generally known as ‘Nisn Beltzer’...
    
    , cantor and composer (b. 1824)