Events

• January 26 - 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...
  
  's Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
  Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 is a music piece by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, created in 1906–07. The premiere was conducted by the composer himself in St. Petersburg on 8 February 1908. Its duration is approximately 60 minutes when performed uncut; cut performances can be as...
  
   receives its première.
• March 15 - Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
  's Rapsodie espagnole
  Rapsodie espagnole
  Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel. Composed between 1907 and 1908, the Rapsodie represents one of Ravel's first major works for orchestra....
  
   receives its première in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
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• April 11 - Spyridon Samaras
  Spyridon Samaras
  Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras was a Greek composer particularly admired for his operas who was part of the generation of composers that heralded the works of Giacomo Puccini...
  
  's opera Rhea is premiered in Florence
  Florence
  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
  
   (Teatro Verdi)
• September 19 - Première of 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. 7
  Symphony No. 7 (Mahler)
  Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony was written in 1904-05, with repeated revisions to the scoring. It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night , though this title was not Mahler's own and he disapproved of it. Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of 'E minor,'...
  
   in Prague
  Prague
  Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
  
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• December 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 Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 1 (Elgar)
  Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 55 is one of his two completed symphonies. The first performance was given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter in Manchester, England, on 3 December 1908. It was widely known that Elgar had been planning a symphony for more than...
  
   receives its première in Manchester
  Manchester
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
  
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• December 18 - Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  's Children's Corner
  Children's Corner
  Children's Corner is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was given its world première in Paris by Harold Bauer on December 18 of that year...
  
   receives its première in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
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• Anthony Maggio publishes a dance band orchestration of early Blues
  Blues
  Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
  
   "I Got The Blues" in New Orleans.
• Opera singer Amelita Galli
  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:...
  
   marries the Marchese Luigi Curci, and acquires the name by which she becomes best-known.
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   marries Emma Bardac
  Emma Bardac
  Emma Bardac , née Moyse, was the mutual love interest of both Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy. Of Jewish descent, Emma married, aged 17, Parisian banker Sigismond Bardac, by whom she had two children, Raoul, and Hélène . Emma was an accomplished singer and brilliant conversationalist...
  
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Published popular music

• "The ABCs of the U.S.A." 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 The Yankee Prince
• "All For Love Of You" w. Dave Reed 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....
  
  
• "Any Old Port In A Storm
  Any Old Port in a Storm
  "Any Old Port in a Storm" is a popular song composed by Kerry Mills with lyrics by Arthur J. Lamb. Published in 1908, it has been recorded many times. The lyrics as published:...
  
  " 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. 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....
  
  
• "Black And White Rag
  Black and White Rag
  Black and White Rag is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford.The first known recording of this piece was by Albert Benzler, recorded on Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting Cylinder #380 in June of 1911. This recording is somewhat rare , and significant...
  
  " w.m. George Botsford
• "Call Round Any Old Time" w.m. Charles Moore & E. W. Rogers
• "Consolation" by 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...
  
  
• "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine
  Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine
  "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine" is a popular song. The music was written by Karl Hoschna, the lyrics by Otto Harbach. The song was published in 1908. From the Broadway musical The Three Twins. The song has now become a standard, performed by many artists, including Julie London and Vic...
  
  " w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. Karl Hoschna
  Karl Hoschna
  Karl Hoschna was a Tin Pan Alley-era composer most noted for his songs "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine", "Every Little Movement" and "Yama Yama Man", and for a string of successful Broadway musicals....
  
  
• "Daisies Won't Tell" w.m. Anita Owen
• "Down Among The Sugar Cane" w. Avery & Charles Hart m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
• "Down In Jungle Town" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Dusty Rag" m. May Aufderhelde
• "The Fairest Of The Fair" 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....
  
  
• "Feed The Kitty" w. Ed Moran 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...
  
  
• "Fig Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
  
  
• "Gee But There's Class To A Girl Like You" w.m. W. R. Williams
• "Golliwog's Cake Walk" m. Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  
• "Good Evening, Caroline
  Good Evening, Caroline
  Good Evening, Caroline is a 1908 popular song, written by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. The singer Billy Murray made at least two recordings of the song: one from 1908 on Edison Records, and one in 1909 on Indestructible Record Company. The 1909 recording became one of the most popular...
  
  " by 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"....
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "Ham And !" by 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...
  
  
• "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
  Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
  "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?", music and lyrics by C.W. Murphy and Will Letters , is a British music hall song, originally titled "Kelly From the Isle of Man". It was adapted for American audiences by William McKenna in 1909 for the American musical The Jolly Bachelors...
  
  " w.m. C. W. Murphy & Will Letters. With new lyrics by William McKenna it was performed by Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes was a popular American singer, comedienne and actress of the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...
  
   in the 1910 Broadway production of the musical The Jolly Bachelors
• "Hoo-oo Ain't You Calling Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "I Hear You Calling Me" w.m. Harold Herford & Charles Marshall
• "I Want To Be Loved Like A Leading Lady" w. Paul West m. Herman Avery Wade
• "If I Had A Thousand Lives To Live" w. Sylvester Maguire m. Alfred Solman
• "If You Cared for" Me by E. Rose
• "I'm A Yiddish Cowboy" w. Edgar Leslie m. Al Piantodosi & Halsey K. Mohr
• "I'm Glad I'm Married" 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"....
  
  
• "I'm Looking For The Man That Wrote "The Merry Widow Waltz"" w. Edgar Selden m. Seymour Furth
• "In The Garden Of My Heart" w. Caro Roma 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....
  
  
• "It's Moonlight All The Time On Broadway" Wenrich
• "It's The Pretty Things You Say" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
• "I've Taken Quite A Fancy To You" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Kerry Mills' Barn Dance" w. Thurland Chattaway 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....
  
  
• "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" w. Ren Shields 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....
  
  
• "Love Is Like A Cigarette" w. Glen MacDonough 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...
  
  
• "Love Me Like I Want To Be Loved" w. Earle C. Jones & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
• "Love's Roundelay" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
• "Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" w. Ren Shields
  Ren Shields
  Ren Shields was an American folk musician born in 1868 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York. He co-wrote the song "In the Good Old Summer Time"....
  
   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...
  
  
• "Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" w. 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...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Mephisto Rag" by Anthony J. Stasny
• "Mother Hasn't Spoken To Father Since" w. 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...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "My Brudda Sylvest'" w. Jesse Lasky m. Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher. Fisher founded Fred Fisher Music Publishing Company in 1907. He was born as Albert von Breitenbach in Cologne...
  
  
• "My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl" w.m. C. W. Murphy & Dan Lipton
• "Now I Have To Call Him Father" w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Godfrey
  Fred Godfrey
  Fred Godfrey was the pen name of Llewellyn Williams, a World War II songwriter...
  
  
• "The Old Time Rag" 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. Theodore Morse
• "Pine Apple Rag" by Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
  
  
• "Roses Bring Dreams Of You" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "She Sells Sea-Shells" w. Terry Sullivan m. Harry Gifford
• "Shine On Harvest Moon" 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. Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes was a popular American singer, comedienne and actress of the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "A Singer Sang A Song" w. Will Heelan m. Seymour Furth
• "Smarty" 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"....
  
  
• "Somebody Lied" w.m. Jeff T. Branen & Evans Lloyd
• "Sun Bird
  Sun Bird
  "Sun Bird" is an intermezzo composed by Kerry Mills in 1908. Thurland Chattaway wrote lyrics that appear in some later publications. The chorus is a love song from an Indian warrior to Sun Bird, an Indian maiden:*Chattaway, Thurland ; Mills, Kerry . "Sun Bird" . Sydney: Albert & Son .*Mills, Kerry....
  
   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....
  
  
• "Sweetest Gal In Town" 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...
  
   & 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"...
  
  
• "Sweetest Maid Of All" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
  
• "Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song. The song is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of...
  
  " 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"....
  
  
• "Up In A Balloon" w. Ren Shields
  Ren Shields
  Ren Shields was an American folk musician born in 1868 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York. He co-wrote the song "In the Good Old Summer Time"....
  
   m. Percy Wenrich
  Percy Wenrich
  Percy Wenrich was a United States composer of ragtime and popular music.Born in Joplin, Missouri, he left for Chicago in 1901 and moved on to New York City around 1907 to work as a Tin Pan Alley composer, but his music retains a Missouri folk flavor...
  
  
• "A Vision Of Salome" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
• "When Highland Mary Danced The Highland Fling" w. Jack Mahoney 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...
  
  
• "When It's Moonlight On The Prairie
  When It's Moonlight On The Prairie
  "When It's Moonlight On The Prairie" is a popular song published in 1908 with lyrics by Robert F. Roden and music by S.R. Henry. The lyrics tell of a cowboy eloping with his Mary. The chorus is:-External links:...
  
  " w. Robert F. Roden m. S. R. Henry
• "When We Are M-A-Double-R-I-E-D" 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 Fifty Miles From Boston
• "The Whitewash Man" w. 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...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "The Yama Yama Man" w. George Collin Davis m. Karl Hoschna
  Karl Hoschna
  Karl Hoschna was a Tin Pan Alley-era composer most noted for his songs "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine", "Every Little Movement" and "Yama Yama Man", and for a string of successful Broadway musicals....
  
  
• "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!" 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. John H. Flynn

• "You Will Have To Sing An Irish Song" 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"....
  
  
• "You're In The Right Church, But The Wrong Pew" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Chris Smith

Hit recordings

• " The Small Town Gal" - 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....
  
  
• "All She Gets from the Iceman Is Ice
  All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice
  "All She Gets from the Iceman Is Ice" is a popular song, originally published in 1907 and written by Arthur J. Lamb and Alfred Solman. As with many popular songs of the era, it is largely forgotten today, although a 1908 version by Ada Jones can be found at several websites because it is now public...
  
  " - Ada Jones
  Ada Jones
  Ada Jones was a popular mezzo-soprano who recorded from 1905 to the early 1920s. She was born in Lancashire, England but moved with her family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of six in 1879...
  
  

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...
  
   - Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
• Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
   - finishes his First Violin Concerto
  Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)
  Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a was written around the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death. It was premiered on May 30, 1958 in Basel, Switzerland...
  
  
• Alban Berg
  Alban Berg
  Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
  
   - Piano Sonata, Op.1
• York Bowen
  York Bowen
  Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player...
  
   - Viola concerto in C minor
• Henry Walford Davies
  Henry Walford Davies
  Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Solemn Melody for organ
• Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
  
   - Second symphony, op. 25
• Hamilton Harty
  Hamilton Harty
  Sir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor, pianist and organist. In his capacity as a conductor, he was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz and he was much respected as a piano accompanist of exceptional prowess...
  
   - Violin Concerto
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
  Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.- Biography :...
  
   - Symphony No. 1
• John Ireland
  John Ireland (composer)
  John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer.- Life :John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher and newspaper proprietor, was aged 70 at John's birth...
  
   - Phantasy Piano Trio
• Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Timoteus Kuula was a Finnish conductor and composer. He was born in the city of Vaasa , when Finland still was a Grand Duchy under Russian rule. He is known as a colorful and passionate portrayer of Finnish nature and people...
  
   - Piano Trio
• Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. He shares identical birth and death years with the composer Maurice Ravel....
  
   - Third String Quartet (by 1908)
• 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...
  
   - Saga-Drøm
  Saga-Drøm
  Carl Nielsen's Saga-Drøm , sometimes known as Gunnar's Dream is a tone poem for orchestra based on the Icelandic Njal's Saga. It was first perfored at the Music Society in Copenhagen on 6 April 1908 under the composer’s baton.-Background:While working on the music for Ludvig Holstein's drama Tove...
  
   (tone poem)
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
   - Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, opus 108
• Xaver Scharwenka
  Xaver Scharwenka
  Franz Xaver Scharwenka was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother of Philipp Scharwenka , who was also a composer and teacher of music.- Life and career :...
  
   - Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor
• 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...
  
   - String Quartet No. 2
  String quartets (Schoenberg)
  The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime. These were the String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 , String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10 , String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 , and the String Quartet No. 4, Op...
  
   - premiered in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
  
   - The Poem of Ecstasy
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   - Fireworks
• 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...
  
   - Passacaglia
  Passacaglia
  The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used by contemporary composers. It is usually of a serious character and is often, but not always, based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre....
  
   for orchestra

Musical theater

• Algeria Broadway production opened at The Broadway Theatre on August 31 and ran for 48 performances
• The Dollar Princess
  The Dollar Princess
  The Dollar Princess is a musical in three acts by A.M. Willner and Fritz Grünbaum , adapted into English by Basil Hood , with music by Leo Fall and lyrics by Adrian Ross. It opened in London at Daly's Theatre on 25 September 1909, running for 428 performances...
  
   Manchester production
• Fifty Miles from Boston 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 on February 3 at the Garrick Theatre
  Garrick Theatre
  The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on 24 April 1889 with The Profligate, a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. In its early years, it appears to have specialised in the performance of melodrama, and today the theatre is a...
  
   and ran for 40 performances
• The King of Cadonia London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre
  Prince of Wales Theatre
  The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner...
  
   on September 3 and ran for 333 performances
• Mr. Hamlet of Broadway Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on December 23 and ran for 54 performances
• My Mimosa Maid London production opened at the Prince Of Wales Theatre
  Prince of Wales Theatre
  The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner...
  
   on April 21 and ran for 83 performances
• Der Tapfere Soldat (The Chocolate Soldier
  The Chocolate Soldier
  The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man...
  
  ) (Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
  ) 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 November 14 and ran for 62 performances
• The Three Twins opened at the Herald Square Theatre on June 15 and moved to the Majestic Theatre on January 18, 1909 for a total run of 289 performances
• A Waltz Dream London production opened at the Hicks Theatre on March 7 and ran for 146 performances.
• A Waltz Dream Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 27 and ran for 111 performances
• The Yankee Prince Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on April 20 and ran for 112 performances
• Ziegfeld Follies
  Ziegfeld Follies
  The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
  
   Broadway revue opened at the Jardin de Paris on June 15 and ran for 120 performances

Births

• January 7 - Red Allen
  Red Allen
  Henry James "Red" Allen was a jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.-Life and career:...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1967)
• January 14 - Russ Columbo
  Russ Columbo
  Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo , known as Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", his compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words", and the legend surrounding his early...
  
  , singer, bandleader, composer (d. 1934)
• January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli
  Stéphane Grappelli
  Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....
  
  , musician, composer (d. 1997)
• January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)
• February 20 - Ruby Elzy
  Ruby Elzy
  Ruby Elzy , was a pioneer African American operatic soprano.-Early life:Elzy was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi and educated at Rust College, the Ohio State University and the Juilliard School,...
  
  , US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...
  
   (d. 1943)
• March 14 - Nikolai Rakov
  Nikolai Rakov
  Nikolai Petrovich Rakov was a Soviet composer.-Life:...
  
  , Soviet composer (d. 1990)
• April 2 - Buddy Ebsen
  Buddy Ebsen
  Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie...
  
  , US actor and singer (d. 2003)
• April 5 - Herbert von Karajan
  Herbert von Karajan
  Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years...
  
  , Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
• April 7 - Percy Faith
  Percy Faith
  Percy Faith was a Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and...
  
  , composer, musician (d. 1976)
• April 15 - eden ahbez
  Eden Ahbez
  eden ahbez was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement...
  
  , hermit, musician (d. 1995)
• April 20 - Lionel Hampton
  Lionel Hampton
  Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy...
  
  , jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)
• May 6 - Necil Kâzım Akses
  Necil Kazim Akses
  Necil Kazım Akses was a Turkish classical composer.-Life:Akses studied music and composition in Vienna with Joseph Marx and in Prague with Josef Suk and Alois Hába...
  
  , Turkish
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
   composer (d. 1999)
• May 8 - Cristian Vasile
  Cristian Vasile
  Cristian Vasile was a Romanian, well-known tango-romance singer between 1928 and 1949, famous for songs like "Zaraza", "Aprinde o ţigară", "Ce să-ţi mai scriu", "Pentru tine am făcut nebunii", "Nunuţo". He died in 1974 in Sibiu...
  
  , Romanian tango singer (d. 1985)
• May 15 - Lars-Erik Larsson
  Lars-Erik Larsson
  Lars-Erik Larsson was a notable Swedish composer of the 20th century.-Biography:Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson was born in Åkarp in 1908...
  
  , Swedish
  Sweden
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
  
   composer (d. 1986)
• May 27 - Harold Rome, US songwriter (d. 1993)
• June 24 - Hugo Distler
  Hugo Distler
  Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.-Life and career:...
  
  , organist and composer (d. 1942)
• June 29 - Leroy Anderson
  Leroy Anderson
  Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler...
  
  , US composer and conductor (d. 1975)
• July 8 - Louis Jordan
  Louis Jordan
  Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
  
  , bandleader (d. 1975)
• July 25 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
  Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
  Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer is considered to be one of the greatest Carnatic vocalists of the twentieth century...
  
  , Carnatic
  Carnatic music
  Carnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...
  
   vocalist (d. 2003)
• August 1 - Miloslav Kabeláč
  Miloslav Kabelác
  Miloslav Kabeláč was a prominent Czech composer and conductor. Miloslav Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work can be compared with Antonín Dvořák or Bohuslav Martinů...
  
  , composer (d. 1979)
• August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn
  Kurt Eichhorn
  Kurt Peter Eichhorn , was a German conductor.Eichhorn was born in Munich, the son of a painter. He studied music at the conservatory in Würzburg with Hermann Zilcher. His conducting debut was in 1932 as a conductor and choral conductor in Bielefeld...
  
  , conductor (d. 1994)
• August 12 - Nina Makarova
  Nina Makarova
  Nina Vladimirovna Makarova was the wife of composer Aram Khachaturian and a composer in her own right who had great interest in Russian and Mari folksongs. She co-composed several pieces with her husband, including the Music to M. Aliger's Play "A Tale of Truth" and Music to Yu. Chepurin's Play...
  
  , composer (d. 1976)
• September 7 - Max Kaminsky
  Max Kaminsky
  Max Kaminsky was a professional ice hockey center who played 3 seasons in the National Hockey League for the St. Louis Eagles, Boston Bruins and Montreal Maroons. Following his retirement he was the long time coach for the Pittsburgh Hornets until the team disbanded from 1957-1961 at which point...
  
  , US jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
• September 10 - Raymond Scott
  Raymond Scott
  Raymond Scott was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor....
  
  , composer, bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
• September 13 - Mae Questel
  Mae Questel
  Mae Questel was an American actress and vocal artist best known for providing the voices for the animated characters, Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, and played occasional small roles in films and television later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's...
  
  , US singer (d. 1998)
• September 16 - Chick Bullock
  Chick Bullock
  Chick Bullock was a popular American jazz and dance band vocalist, most active in the 1930s. He recorded some 500 tunes over the course of his career. Bullock was mostly associated with the ARC group of labels...
  
  , US singer
• September 25 - Eugen Suchoň
  Eugen Suchon
  Eugen Suchoň was one of the greatest Slovak composers of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  , Slovak composer (d. 1993)
• September 30 - David Oistrakh
  David Oistrakh
  David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
  
  , violinist (d. 1974)
• October 1 - Umar Dimayev
  Umar Dimayev
  Umar Dimayev was a legendary Chechen accordionist and folk musician. His sons - Ali, Valid, and Said - are professional Chechen musicians.-Biography:Umar was born into a family of peasant farmers on October 1, 1908 in Urus-Martan...
  
  , Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)
• October 14 - Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
• October 19 – Geirr Tveitt
  Geirr Tveitt
  Geirr Tveitt, born Nils Tveit was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s.-Early years:...
  
  , Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
• October 20 - Stuart Hamblen
  Stuart Hamblen
  Stuart Hamblen , born Stuart Carl Hamblen, was one of American radio's first singing cowboys in 1926, and later became a Christian songwriter, temperance supporter and recurring candidate for political office....
  
  , US singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1989)
• October 21:
  • Harry Stewart
    Harry Stewart
    Harry Stewart was an American comedian and singer, who often performed as Yogi Yorgesson, a comically exaggerated Swede....
    
    , comedian, singer, and songwriter (d. 1956)
  • Howard Ferguson
    Howard Ferguson (composer)
    Howard Ferguson was a British composer and musicologist. He composed instrumental, chamber, orchestral and choral works. While his music is not widely-known today, his Piano Sonata in F Minor and his Five Bagatelles for piano are still performed...
    
    , British composer and musicologist (d. 1999)
• November 19 - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur
  Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur
  Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, known often simply as Daniel-Lesur was a French organist and composer. His mother, Alice Lesur, was an accomplished composer in her own right; some of her music was even published....
  
  , French organist and composer (d. 2002)
• December 10 - Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
  , composer (d. 1992)
• December 11 - Elliott Carter
  Elliott Carter
  Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
  
  , composer
• December 16 - Frances Day
  Frances Day
  Frances Day was an American actress and singer who achieved great popularity in the UK in the 1930s.Day's career began as a nightclub cabaret singer in New York City and London...
  
  , US actress and singer (d. 1984)
• December 17 - William Brocklesby Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth (composer)
  William Brocklesby Wordsworth was an English composer.Wordsworth was born in London. He studied harmony and counterpoint under George Oldroyd from 1921 to 1931, continuing his study with Donald Francis Tovey at Edinburgh University from 1934 to 1936...
  
  , English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)
• December 21 - Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer (died 1988)

Deaths

• January 22 - August Wilhelmj
  August Wilhelmj
  August Wilhelmj was a German violinist and teacher.Wilhelmj was a child prodigy. When Henriette Sontag heard him in 1852, when he was seven, she said "You will be the German Paganini"...
  
  , German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   violinist (b. 1845)
• January 23 - Edward MacDowell
  Edward MacDowell
  Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...
  
  , American composer (b. 1860)
• February 28 - Pauline Lucca
  Pauline Lucca
  Pauline Lucca was a prominent operatic soprano, born in the Austrian capital of Vienna.As a child she showed a remarkable talent for singing and at eight years old became a voice student of M. Walter. Not too long after her parents lost all their property, forcing her to abandon her studies...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1842)
• March 2 - Walter Slaughter
  Walter Slaughter
  Walter Alfred Slaughter was an English conductor and composer of musical comedy, comic opera and children's shows. He was engaged in the West End as a composer and musical director from 1883 to 1904.-Life and career:...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1860)
• March 12 - Clara Novello
  Clara Novello
  Clara Anastasia Novello was an acclaimed soprano, the fourth daughter of Vincent Novello, a musician and music publisher, and his wife, Mary Sabilla Hehl....
  
  , soprano (b. 1818)
• March 26 - Louis Chauvin
  Louis Chauvin
  Louis Chauvin was an American ragtime musician.Born in St. Louis, Missouri of a Mexican Spanish-Indian father and an African American mother, he was widely considered the finest pianist in the St. Louis area at the turn of the century...
  
  , ragtime musician (b. 1881)
• May 7 - Ludovic Halévy
  Ludovic Halévy
  Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...
  
  , lyricist (b. 1834)
• May 12 - Melisio Morales
  Melisio Morales
  Melesio Morales was a Mexican composer.Morales studied music in Mexico City, and two of his operas, written in Italian, were performed there...
  
  , composer (b. 1838)
• June 5 - Josef Wagner
  Josef Wagner (composer)
  Josef Franz Wagner was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes known by the sobriquet 'The Austrian March King'....
  
  , composer (b. 1856)
• June 21 - 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...
  
  , composer (b. 1844)
• July 10 - Phoebe Knapp
  Phoebe Knapp
  Phoebe Knapp was a composer of music for hymns and an organist.Knapp was born in New York City. Her parents were Walter C. Palmer and Phoebe Worrall Palmer...
  
  , composer of hymns (b. 1839)
• July 14 - William Mason
  William Mason (composer)
  William Mason was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family.Mason's father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church music...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• July 18 - Jaime Nunó
  Jaime Nunó
  Jaime Nunó Roca was a Catalan composer who composed music for Mexico's national anthem.He was born on September 8, 1824 in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, a town in the province of Girona, in Catalonia, Spain. Both his parents, Francesc Nunó and Magdalena Roca, died before his ninth birthday...
  
  , composer of Mexico's national anthem (b. 1824)
• July 20 - Federico Chueca
  Federico Chueca
  Federico Chueca was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran vía along with Joaquín Valverde Durán in 1886. Chueca was one of the most prominent figures of the género chico....
  
  , zarzuela composer (b. 1846)
• August 13 - Ira D. Sankey
  Ira D. Sankey
  Ira D. Sankey , known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism, was an American gospel singer and composer, associated with evangelist Dwight L...
  
  , gospel singer and composer (b. 1840)
• August 20 - Louisa Bassano
  Louisa Bassano
  Louisa Bassano was an English opera singer.She was the second daughter of Clemente Bassano and elder sister of the photographer Alexander Bassano. She toured with the pianist Franz Liszt during his visit to the British Isles in 1840-1841...
  
  , opera singer (b. 1818)
• August 26 – Tony Pastor
  Tony Pastor
  Tony Pastor was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late nineteenth century...
  
  , vaudeville founder & theater impresario (b. 1837)
• September 20 - Pablo de Sarasate
  Pablo de Sarasate
  Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués was a Navarrese Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period.-Career:Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Navarre, the son of an artillery bandmaster...
  
  , violinist (b. 1844)
• September 21 - Atanas Badev
  Atanas Badev
  Atanas Badev was a Bulgarian composer and music teacher from Macedonia ....
  
  , composer and music teacher (b. 1860)
• November 15 - Katti Lanner
  Katti Lanner
  Katti Lanner was a Viennese ballet dancer and choreographer....
  
  , ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1829)
• November 20 - Albert Dietrich
  Albert Dietrich
  Albert Hermann Dietrich , was a German composer and conductor, remembered less for his own achievements than for his friendship with Johannes Brahms.Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1829)
• date unknown - Alois Kaiser
  Alois Kaiser
  Alois Kaiser American chazzan and composer, and considered to be the founder of American cantorate....
  
  , cantor and composer (b. 1840)