Events

• November 28 - 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 Piano Concerto No. 3
  Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)
  The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, composed in 1909 by Sergei Rachmaninoff is famous for its technical and musical demands on the performer...
  
  is premièred in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  

Albums Released

• Tchailkovsky's Nutcracker Suite - Mark Hamburg And The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra

Published popular music

• "Ace In The Hole" w.m. George D. Mitchell & James E. Dempsey
• "And Now Assemble" w. Adrian Ross
  Adrian Ross
  For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   m. Leo Fall
• "Arcady Is Ever Young" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Lionel Monckton
  Lionel Monckton
  Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  . Introduced by Florence Smithson in the musical The Arcadians
  The Arcadians (musical)
  The Arcadians is an Edwardian musical comedy styled a "Fantastic Musical Play" in three acts by Mark Ambient and Alexander M. Thompson, with lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot...
  
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• "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" w. George Whiting & Carter De Haven m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti
  Christina Rossetti
  Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
  
  
• "Blue Feather
  Blue Feather
  "Blue Feather" is a popular song written in 1909 with music by Theodore F. Morse and lyrics by Jack Mahoney. In the song the singer is expressing his love for sweet Blue Feather. The chorus is:-External links:...
  
  " w. Jack Mahoney, m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Boiled Beef and Carrots
  Boiled Beef and Carrots
  "Boiled Beef and Carrots" is a comedic musical hall song published in 1909, and composed by Charles Collins and Fred Murray.The song was made famous by Harry Champion who sang it as part of his act and recorded it...
  
  " w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Murray
• "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
  By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song)
  "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" is a popular song. The music was written by Gus Edwards, and the lyrics by Edward Madden. The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era.The song has been used...
  
  " 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. 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:...
  
  
• "Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)" w. Juni McCree 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"....
  
  
• "Casey Jones
  Casey Jones
  John Luther Jones was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee, who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad...
  
  " w. T. Lawrence Seibert m. Eddie Newton
• "Chewska" w. Adrian Ross
  Adrian Ross
  For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   m. Leo Fall
• "Christmas-Time Seems Years And Years Away" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "The Cubanola Glide" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "The Dollar Princesses" w. Adrian Ross
  Adrian Ross
  For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   m. Leo Fall
• "Dublin Daisies" 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...
  
  
• "Fickle Fortune" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Lionel Monckton
  Lionel Monckton
  Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
   & Howard Talbot
  Howard Talbot
  Richard Lansdale Munkittrick, better known as Howard Talbot , was an American-born, English-raised conductor and composer of Irish descent...
  
  
• "For You Alone" w. P. J. O'Reilly m. Henry E. Geehl
• "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
  From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
  "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" is a popular song published in 1909. Charles Wakefield Cadman composed the music based on an Omaha love song collected by Alice C. Fletcher. "Sky-blue water" is a translation of the name "Minnesota" from Dakota into English...
  
  " w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman
• "The Garden of Roses" by J.E. Dempsey
• "Golden Arrow
  Golden Arrow (song)
  "Golden Arrow " is popular song published both as an intermezzo two-step and a ballad in 1909. The music was composed by Egbert Van Alstyne, with lyrics added by Harry Williams...
  
   w. Harry 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...
  
  
• "Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "How Do You Do?" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
• "I Just Came Back To Say Good Bye" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Kid" w.m. Harry Armstrong & Billy Clark
• "I Wish That You Was My Gal, Molly" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
  I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
  "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" is a popular song. The music was written by Joseph E. Howard and Harold Orlob, the lyrics by Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. The song was published in 1909...
  
  " w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard & Harold Orlob
• "If The Wind Had Only Blown The Other Way" w.m. Edna Williams & Bessie Wynn
• "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew" 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...
  
  
• "I'm Alabama Bound
  I'm Alabama Bound
  "I'm Alabama Bound" is a ragtime melody composed by Robert Hoffman in 1909. Hoffman "respectfully" dedicated it to one M. T. Scarlata. The cover of its first edition advertises the music as "Also Known As The Alabama Blues" which has led some to suspect it of being one of the first blues songs...
  
  " by Robert Hoffman
• "I'm Awfully Glad I Met You" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
• "I'm Glad I'm A Boy/ I'm Glad I'm A Girl" w.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...
  
  
• "I'm Going To Do What I Please" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust
  I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust
  "I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust " was a popular song. The music was composed by Herman Avery Wade, and the lyrics were written by Henry Edward Warner. The song was originally copyrighted in 1909 by Joseph W. Stern & Co. with these rights bought for publication in the United States by Edward B....
  
  " w. Henry Edward Warner m. Herman Avery Wade
• "I've Got Rings On My Fingers
  I've Got Rings On My Fingers
  I've Got Rings On My Fingers is a popular song written in 1909, words by Weston and Barnes, and music by Maurice Scott. It concerns an Irishman named Jim O'Shea, a castaway who finds himself on an island somewhere in the East Indies, whereupon he is made Chief Panjandrum by the natives because they...
  
  " w. 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...
  
   & F. J. Barnes m. Maurice Scott
• "Let's All Go Down The Strand" w.m. Harry Castling & C. W. Murphy

• "Kissing-Bug" m. Charles L. Johnson
• "Let's Go Into A Picture Show" w.m. Junie McCree & 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"....
  
  
• "The Letter Song" w. Stanislaus Stange m. Oscar Straus
  Oscar Straus (composer)
  Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works...
  
  
• "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
  Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
  Meet Me To-night in Dreamland was one of the most famous and beloved popular songs of the twentieth century. This gentle waltz, with poignant lyrics, was written by Beth Slater Whitson and Leo Friedman. It was published in Chicago in 1909. Friedman and Whitson sold it to the largest publisher in...
  
  " w. Beth Slater Whitson
  Beth Slater Whitson
  Beth Slater Whitson was an American lyricist. Whitson was born in Goodrich, Tennessee and died in Nashville, Tennessee...
  
   m. Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman was an American composer of popular music. Friedman was born in Elgin, Illinois and died in Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for composing the sentimental waltz "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" with lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson in 1910...
  
  
• "Moonstruck" w.m. Lionel Monckton
  Lionel Monckton
  Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Moving Day In Jungle Town" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
• "My Cousin Caruso" 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. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "My Hero" w. (Eng) Stanislaus Stange (Ger) Rudolf Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson m. Oscar Straus
  Oscar Straus (composer)
  Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works...
  
  
• "My Motter" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Howard Talbot
  Howard Talbot
  Richard Lansdale Munkittrick, better known as Howard Talbot , was an American-born, English-raised conductor and composer of Irish descent...
  
  
• "My Pony Boy" w. Bobby Heath m. Charles O'Donnell
• "My Prairie Song Bird
  My Prairie Song Bird
  "My Prairie Song Bird" is 1909 popular song composed by George W. Meyer and with lyrics written by Jack Drislane. In the song, the singer is asking Priarie Song Bird to marry him. The chorus is:...
  
  " w. Jack Drislane, m. George W. Meyer
  George W. Meyer
  George W. Meyer aka Geo. W. Meyer was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter....
  
  
• "My Southern Rose" by Earl Taylor
• "My Wife's Gone To The Country" w. George Whiting & Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Next To Your Mother Who Do You Love" w. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "No One Could Do It Like My Father" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Nobody Knows Nobody Cares" w.m. Charles K. Harris
  Charles K. Harris
  Charles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
  
  
• "Oh! You Candy Kid" w.m. Bob Adams & John Golden
• "Oh, What I Know About You" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  , Joseph H. McKeon, Harry M. Piano, W. Raymond Walker
• "On Wisconsin" w. Carl Beck m. W. T. Purdy
• "Only a Dream of You" w. Carol Loveland m. Harry J. Lincoln
  Harry J. Lincoln
  Harry James Lincoln was a music composer from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Aside from running his own publication company, he wrote many marches and rags, such as the Bees Wax Rag , the Lincoln Highway two step march , and quite possibly the Repasz Band March...
  
  
• "Our Farm" Caryll & Monckton
• "Pork And Beans" m. Theron C. Bennett
• "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" w. Stanley Murphy 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...
  
  
• "Rainbow" w. Alfred Bryan 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...
  
  
• "Sadie Salome Go Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Edgar Leslie
• "She Was A Dear Little Girl" w. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Ship Ahoy!" w.m. A. J. Mills & Bennett Scott
  Bennett Scott
  Bennett Scott was a writer of music hall songs. He co-wrote many songs with A.J. Mills and Fred Godfrey including Tom Costello’s "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Sail Away", Whit Cunliffe’s "Fall In And Follow Me", "One Of The B’hoys" by Mark Sheridan, "When I Take My Morning Promenade" by Marie Lloyd,...
  
  
• "Stop That Rag (Keep On Playing, Honey)" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  , Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Take Me Up With You, Dearie" w. Junie McCree 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"....
  
  
• "Temptation Rag" m. Henry Lodge
• "That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "That's A Plenty" w. Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer was an American popular song lyricist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in New York. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 to 1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.Creamer was a co-founder with James Reese...
  
   m. Bert A. Williams
• "When I Dream In The Gloaming Of You" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "When You First Kissed The Last Girl You Loved" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
• "Where My Caravan Has Rested" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Herman Lohr
• "The Whiffenpoof Song" w. Meade Minnigerode
  Meade Minnigerode
  Meade Minnigerode was an American writer, born in London. He graduated from Yale in 1910 and for several years was associated with publishers in New York. He represented the United States Shipping Board in France in 1917–1918 and in the year following was first lieutenant with the American Red...
  
   & George S. Pomeroy m. Tod B. Galloway
• "The White Wash 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...
  
  
• "Wild Cherries (Coony, Spoony Rag)" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  , Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Yiddle On Your Fiddle" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "You Taught Me How To Love You Now Teach Me To Forget" w. Jack Drislane & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer

Recorded popular music

• "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" - 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...
  
  
• "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" - Nellie Melba
  Nellie Melba
  Dame Nellie Melba GBE , born Helen "Nellie" Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century...
  
  
• "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...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Victor Dance Orchestra
  • Prince's Band
• "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
  By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song)
  "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" is a popular song. The music was written by Gus Edwards, and the lyrics by Edward Madden. The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era.The song has been used...
  
  " - Billy Murray
  Billy Murray (singer)
  William Thomas "Billy" Murray was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century...
  
   & Haydn Quartette
• "Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)" - Billy Murray
• "College Life" - Billy Murray
• "Dill Pickles Rag" - Pryor's Band
  Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. In later life, he was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.Pryor was born on the second floor of...
  
  
• "Down Among The Sugar Cane" - Collins and Harlan
• "Down In Jungle Town" - Peter Dawson (as Charles Handy)
• "Face To Face" - Frank C. Stanley
  Frank C. Stanley
  Frank C. Stanley was a bass-baritone singer, stage performer and banjoist who made many early gramophone recordings on disc and cylinder during the 1890s and the 1900s. His real name was William Stanley Grinsted. He was born on 29 December 1868 in Orange, New Jersey...
  
  
• "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...
  
  " - Billy Murray
• "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" - Florrie Forde
  Florrie Forde
  Florrie Forde , born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall....
  
  
• "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside", recorded by:
  • Mark Sheridan
    Mark Sheridan
    Mark Sheridan born Frederick Shaw was an English music hall comedian and singer. He became a popular singer of lusty seaside songs and was the original performer of the 1909 J.Glover-Kind classic, "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside"...
    
    
  • Florrie Forde
• "I Just Came Back To Say Good Bye" - Amy Butler
  Amy Butler
  Amy Butler is a camogie player and an accountant, who played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. Amy is hoping to win her first All-Ireland medal with Kilkenny today, having collected a National League Division 1 title when Galway were defeated in the 2008 final. She also holds a Colleges...
  
  
• "I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Kid" - Billy Murray
• "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
  I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
  "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" is a popular song. The music was written by Joseph E. Howard and Harold Orlob, the lyrics by Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. The song was published in 1909...
  
  " - Billy Murray
• "If The Wind Had Only Blown The Other Way" - Grace Cameron
• "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew" - Eddie Morton
• "I'm Going To Do What I Please" - Stella Tobin
• "I've Got Rings On My Fingers
  I've Got Rings On My Fingers
  I've Got Rings On My Fingers is a popular song written in 1909, words by Weston and Barnes, and music by Maurice Scott. It concerns an Irishman named Jim O'Shea, a castaway who finds himself on an island somewhere in the East Indies, whereupon he is made Chief Panjandrum by the natives because they...
  
  ", recorded by:
  • 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...
    
    
  • Blanche Ring
    Blanche Ring
    Blanche Ring , was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and Hollywood motion pictures....
    
    
• "Just Before The Battle, Mother" - Will Oakland
  Will Oakland
  Will Oakland was an American Countertenor famed for his exceptionally high vocal range. He was born Herman Hinrichs in Jersey City, New Jersey, to German-American immigrant parents....
  
  
• "Let's Go Into A Picture Show", recorded by:
  • Harry Tally with O/Walter B. Rogers
  • Pete Murray
• "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" - Will Oakland
• "Maple Leaf Rag
  Maple Leaf Rag
  The "Maple Leaf Rag" is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. As a result Joplin was called the "King...
  
  " - United States Marine Band
  United States Marine Band
  The United States Marine Band is the premier band of the United States Marine Corps. Established by act of Congress on July 11, 1798, it is the oldest of the United States military bands and the oldest professional musical organization in the United States...
  
   (popular remake by the U.S.M.B. of their historic 1906 recording)
• "Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" - Peter Dawson (as Mr C. Handy)
• "My Pony Boy" - Ada Jones & Peerless Quartet
  Peerless Quartet
  The Peerless Quartet, , was a vocal group from the acoustic era . It was organised in 1904 as the Columbia Quartet. It remained active until 1928 and had many changes of personnel during that time, the one constant being Henry Burr...
  
  te
• "My Wife's Gone To The Country" - Collins & Harlan
• "Not For Me" - Bessie Wynn
• "Now I Have To Call Him Father" - Florrie Forde
• "Oh You Kid!" - Billy Murray & Ada Jones
• "Oh! You Candy Kid" - Ada Jones
• "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "Old Black Joe
  Old Black Joe
  "Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster . It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1853. Ken Emerson, author of Doo-Dah!, indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by a servant in the home of his father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh...
  
  " - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "Put Me Upon An Island" - Wilkie Bard
  Wilkie Bard
  Wilkie Bard was a popular vaudeville and music hall entertainer and recording artist at the beginning of the 20th century. He is best known for his songs "I Want to Sing in Opera" and "The Night Watchman." -Early life:Bard was born March 19, 1874 in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire...
  
  
• "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" - Haydn Quartette
• "Rainbow" - Frank C. Stanley and Henry Burr
  Henry Burr
  Henry Burr was a Canadian singer of popular songs from the early 20th century, an early radio performer and producer...
  
  
• "She Sells Sea-Shells" - Billy Murray
• "The Star Spangled Banner" - Geraldine Farrar
  Geraldine Farrar
  Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers".- Early life and opera career :Farrar was born in Melrose,...
  
   w. male chorus (Harry Macdonough
  Harry Macdonough
  John Scantlebury Macdonald was a Canadian singer and recording executive. Under the pseudonym Harry Macdonough, he was one of the most prolific and popular tenors during the formative years of recorded music....
  
  , Reed Miller
  Reed Miller
  Reed Miller was an American tenor who had an active career as a concert and oratorio singer during the first quarter of the 20th century. He possessed a beautiful warm lyrical voice that was very expressive.-Biography:...
  
  , Reinald Werrenrath and Frank C.Stanley)
• "Sweet Simplicitas" - Peter Dawson (as Charles Handy) w. Chorus (Ernest Pike
  Ernest Pike
  Ernest Pike was an English tenor of the early 20th century who recorded under his own name and variously as Herbert Payne, Arthur Brett, Eric Courtland, Arthur Gray, Bernard Moss, Dick Denton, Charles Nelson, Allan Dale and Richard Pembroke; - Herbert Payne being the one most commonly used...
  
  , Harold Wilde & Stewart Gardner)
• "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a historic African-American spiritual. The first recording was in 1909, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University....
  
  " - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "Take Me Up With You, Dearie" - Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet
• "That's A Plenty" - Arthur Collins
• "When I Dream In The Gloaming Of You", recorded by:
  • Harry Tally with O/Charles A. Prince
    Charles A. Prince
    Charles Adams Prince was an American bandleader, pianist and organist known for conducting the Columbia Orchestra and, later, Prince's Band and Orchestra. He made his first recordings as a pianist in 1891 for the New York Phonograph Co...
    
    
  • Walter Van Brunt
    Walter Van Brunt
    Walter Van Brunt was an American tenor known initially for his recordings on Thomas Alva Edison's Blue Amberol Records and later for his rôle in a scandal involving a stage name and case of adultery....
    
    
• "The Whole Damm Family" - Billy Murray
• "The Yama Yama Man" - Ada Jones
• "Yankiana Rag" - The American Symphony Orchestra
  American Symphony Orchestra
  The American Symphony Orchestra is a New York-based American orchestra founded in 1962 by Leopold Stokowski, then aged 80. Following Maestro Stokowski's departure, Kazuyoshi Akiyama was appointed Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra from 1973-1978. Music Directors during the early...
  
  
• "Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon" - Nellie Melba
• "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!", recorded by:
  • George Grossmith Jr.
  • Blanche Ring with O/Walter B. Rogers

Classical music

• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
  
   - In the Faery Hills
• Ferruccio Busoni
  Ferruccio Busoni
  Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
  
   - An die Jugend
• Gustav Helsted
  Gustav Helsted
  Gustav Carl Helsted was a Danish composer.- Notable works :*Ouverture i c-mol *Scherzo i c#-mol *Strygekvartet i h-mol...
  
   - Concerto for violin and orchestra in B minor
• Anatoly Lyadov
  Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov
  Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov or Liadov was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor.- Biography :Lyadov was born in St. Petersburg into a family of eminent Russian musicians. He was taught informally by his conductor father from 1860 to 1868, and then in 1870 entered the St. Petersburg...
  
   - Kikimora, Op. 63
• John Blackwood McEwen
  John Blackwood McEwen
  Sir John Blackwood McEwen was a Scottish classical composer and educator.- Biography :John Blackwood McEwen was born in Hawick in 1868. After initial training in Glasgow, he studied with Ebenezer Prout, Corder and Tobias Matthay at the Royal Academy of Music in London...
  
   - A Solway Symphony
• 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...
  
   - Das Lied von der Erde
  Das Lied von der Erde
  Das Lied von der Erde is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler...
  
  completed
• Adolf Mišek
  Adolf Mišek
  Adolf Mišek was a Czech double bassist and composer of the late romantic era.Born in Modletín , he left for Vienna at the age of 15 to study with Franz Simandl at the Vienna Conservatory...
  
   - Sonata for Double Bass and Piano no 1 in A major
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
   - Psalm 100 op. 106, Clarinet Sonata No. 3 op. 107, String Quartet No. 4 op. 109
• Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
  
   - Suite de concert for Violin and Orchestra
• Charles Tournemire
  Charles Tournemire
  Charles Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant...
  
   - Symphony No. 2 (Ouessant)
• 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...
  
   - 5 movements
• 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...
  
   - 6 Pieces for Orchestra

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...

• 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...
  
   - Bacchus (opera)
  Bacchus (opera)
  Bacchus is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Catulle Mendès after Greek mythology. It was first performed at the Palais Garnier in Paris on May 5, 1909....
  
  
• Ruperto Chapí
  Ruperto Chapí
  Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores.Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a Valencian barber. He trained in his home town and Madrid...
  
   - Margarita la tornera
  Margarita la tornera
  Margarita la tornera is an opera in three acts composed by Ruperto Chapí to a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, based on a dramatic poem by José Zorrilla...
  
   (Margarita the Gatekeeper)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
   - The Golden Cockerel
  The Golden Cockerel
  The Golden Cockerel is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Its libretto, by Vladimir Belsky, derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, which in turn is based on two chapters of Tales of the Alhambra by...
  
  
• Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
   - Elektra
  Elektra (opera)
  Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Il segreto di Susanna
  Il segreto di Susanna
  Il segreto di Susanna is an intermezzo in one act by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Enrico Golisciani...
  
  

Musical theater

• The Arcadians
  The Arcadians (musical)
  The Arcadians is an Edwardian musical comedy styled a "Fantastic Musical Play" in three acts by Mark Ambient and Alexander M. Thompson, with lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot...
  
  London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre
  Shaftesbury Theatre
  The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The theatre was designed for the brothers Walter and Frederick Melville by Bertie Crewe and opened on 26 December 1911 with a production of The Three Musketeers, as the New...
  
   on April 28 and ran for 809 performances.
• The Beauty Spot Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on April 10 and ran for 137 performances
• The Belle of Brittany (Music: Howard Talbot
  Howard Talbot
  Richard Lansdale Munkittrick, better known as Howard Talbot , was an American-born, English-raised conductor and composer of Irish descent...
  
   & Marie Horne  Lyrics: Percy Greenbank
  Percy Greenbank
  Percy Greenbank was an English lyricist, best known for his contribution of lyrics to a number of successful Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century. His older brother, lyricist Harry Greenbank, had a brilliant career in the 1890s that was cut short by his death at the...
  
   Book: P. J. Barron & Leedom Bantock) Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on November 8 and ran for 72 performances. Starring Frank Daniels
  Frank Daniels
  Frank Albert Daniels was a comedian, an actor on stage and in early black-and-white films, and a singer....
  
   and Francis Kennedy.
• A Broken Idol Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on August 16 and ran for 40 performances
• 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...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (New York)
  The Lyric Theatre was a prominent Broadway theatre built in 1903 in Manhattan, New York City in the 42nd Street Theatre District. It had two entrances, one at 213 West 42nd Street and another at 214-26 West 43rd Street and was one of the few New York houses that had two formal entrances. In 1934,...
  
   on September 13, transferred to the Herald Square Theatre on October 25, transferred back to the Lyric Theatre on November 22 and transferred to the Casino Theatre on December 20 for a total run of 295 performances
• The Dashing Little Duke London production opened at Hicks Theatre
  Gielgud Theatre
  The Gielgud Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, London, at the corner of Rupert Street. The house currently has 889 seats on three levels.-History:...
  
   on February 17 and ran for 101 performances
• Dear Little Denmark 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 1 and ran for 109 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...
  
  London 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 September 25 and ran for 428 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...
  
  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 August 6 and ran for 250 performances
• Der Graf von Luxemburg
  Der Graf von Luxemburg
  Der Graf von Luxemburg is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár to German libretto by Alfred Willner, Robert Bodanzky, and Leo Stein. It premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, on 12 November 1909 and was an immediate success...
  
  (The Count of Luxembourg
  The Count of Luxembourg
  The Count of Luxembourg is an operetta in two acts with English lyrics and libretto by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross, music by Franz Lehár, based loosely on the German original, entitled "Der Graf von Luxemburg", which had premiered in Vienna in 1909....
  
  ) 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 12 and ran for 299 performances
• The Midnight Sons Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre
  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...
  
   on May 22 and ran for 257 performances
• Our Miss Gibbs
  Our Miss Gibbs
  Our Miss Gibbs is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts by 'Cryptos' and James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. Produced by George Edwardes, it opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London on 23 January 1909 and ran for an extremely...
  
  London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on January 23 and ran for 636 performances.
• A Persian Princess London production opened at the Queen's Theatre
  Queen's Theatre
  The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It opened on 8 October 1907 as a twin to the neighbouring Gielgud Theatre which opened ten months earlier. Both theatres were designed by W.G.R...
  
   on April 27 and ran for 68 performances.
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1909
  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
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Jardin de Paris on June 14 and ran for 64 performances

Births

• January 3 - Victor Borge
  Victor Borge
  Victor Borge ,born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane,and The Great Dane.-Early life and career:...
  
  , musician, actor (d. 2000
  2000 in music
  See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
  
  )
• January 11 - Gunnar Berg, composer (d. 1989)
• January 13 - Ed Burke
  Ed Burke (musician)
  Edward "Ed" Burke was an American jazz musician.Burke was adept at both violin and trombone, and played both professionally in jazz bands. He worked with Walter Barnes late in the 1920s, then with Cassino Simpson and Ed Carry in the early 1930s...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1988)
• January 15 - Gene Krupa
  Gene Krupa
  Gene Krupa was an American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.-Biography:...
  
  , drummer (d. 1973
  1973 in music
  -January–April:*January 9 – Mick Jagger's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug conviction, putting an abrupt end to The Rolling Stones' plans to perform in Japan during their forthcoming tour.*January 14...
  
  )
• February 5 - Grazyna Bacewicz
  Grazyna Bacewicz
  Grażyna Bacewicz was a Polish composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.- Life :Bacewicz was born in Łódź...
  
  , Polish composer (d. 1969)
• February 9 - Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
  , Brazilian singer, actress (d. 1955
  1955 in music
  -Events:*January 1 – RCA Victor announces a marketing plan called "Operation TNT." The label drops the list price on LPs from $5.95 to $3.98, EPs from $4.95 to $2.98, 45 EPs from $1.58 to $1.49 and 45's from $1.16 to $.89...
  
  )
• May 1 - George Melachrino
  George Melachrino
  George Melachrino was a musician, movie composer, and musical director who was English born of Greek and Italian descent. He was an accomplished player of the violin, viola, oboe, clarinet and saxophone....
  
  , English conductor, singer and composer (d. 1965
  1965 in music
  -Events:*January 4 – Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is sold to CBS for $13 million.*January 12 – Hullabaloo premieres on NBC. The first show included performances by The New Christy Minstrels, comedian Woody Allen, actress Joey Heatherton and a segment from London in which Brian Epstein...
  
  )
• May 10 - Maybelle Carter
  Maybelle Carter
  "Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.-Biography:...
  
   née Addington, US country singer and musician, member of the Carter Family
  Carter Family
  The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country...
  
   (d. 1978
  1978 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1978.-January–April:*January 14 – The Sex Pistols play their final show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom....
  
  )
• May 13 - Ken Darby
  Ken Darby
  Kenneth Lorin Darby was an American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor. His film scores were recognized with three Academy Awards and one Grammy Award.- Personal life :...
  
  , US chorale director (d. 1992)
• May 30 - Benny Goodman
  Benny Goodman
  Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
  
  , musician, actor (d. 1986
  1986 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1986.-January-June:*January 23 – The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame takes place...
  
  )
• June 12 - Archie Bleyer
  Archie Bleyer
  Archie Bleyer was an American song arranger, bandleader, and record company executive.-Early life:He was born in the Corona section of the New York City borough of Queens. He began playing the piano when he was only seven years old...
  
  , US arranger and bandleader (d. 1989
  1989 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.-Events:*January 14 – Paul McCartney releases Снова в СССР exclusively in the USSR...
  
  )
• June 14 - Burl Ives
  Burl Ives
  Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice .....
  
   (d. 1995
  1995 in music
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
  
  )
• June 26 - Colonel Tom Parker
  Colonel Tom Parker
  "Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley...
  
  , Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  's manager (d. 1997)
• July 9 - Manolo Caracol
  Manolo Caracol
  Manuel Ortega Juárez. , was a flamenco cantaor.Born in Seville, Spain, he was descended from a long line of flamenco artists including Enrique Ortega and Curro Dulce, and he was possibly related to El Planeta and El Fillo...
  
  , flamenco singer (d. 1973)
• July 18 - Harriet Hilliard, US singer and actress, wife of 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:...
  
   and mother of Rick Nelson (d. 1994)
• August 10 - Claude Thornhill
  Claude Thornhill
  Claude Thornhill was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader...
  
  , US bandleader, pianist and composer (d. 1965)
• August 11 - Yuji Koseki
  Yuji Koseki
  was a Japanese ryūkōka, gunka, march, fight song and film score composer. His real name was also Yuji Koseki, but its kanji was 古關 勇治.Koseki entered Nippon Columbia in 1930. He composed Hanshin Tigers' song "Rokko Oroshi" in 1936. His famous military song titled was released in 1937. Famous songs...
  
  , Japanese composer (d. 1989)
• August 15 - Hugo Winterhalter
  Hugo Winterhalter
  Hugo Winterhalter was an American musician.An easy listening arranger and composer, Winterhalter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's near Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1931, where he played saxophone for the orchestra and sang in two of the choirs...
  
  , US conductor and arranger (d. 1973)
• August 17 - Larry Clinton
  Larry Clinton
  Larry Clinton was a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader.-Biography:Clinton was born in Brooklyn, New York. He became a versatile musician, capable of playing trumpet, trombone, and clarinet...
  
  , US bandleader and songwriter (d. 1985)
• August 25 - Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street . From 1928 to 1940, she was married to singer Al Jolson...
  
  , dancer, actress (d. 1993)
• September 24 - Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...
  
  , songwriter (d. 2000)
• October 3 - Borney Bergantine
  Borney Bergantine
  Borney Bergantine was the composer of "My Happiness," a music hit from the late 1940s that endures as an American love tune.-Career:...
  
  , songwriter (d. 1952)
• November 10 - Johnny Marks
  Johnny Marks
  Johnny Marks was an American songwriter. Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" , "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" , and "A Holly...
  
  , US songwriter (d. 1985)
• November 18 - Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
  , songwriter (d. 1976)
• December 15 - Jack Barry
  Jack Barry (singer)
  Jack Barry was the stage name of Jacob Belser , who sang on the radio from 1930-1936 on his Jack Barry Show....
  
  , singer (d. 1982)
• date unknown - Ichirō Saitō
  Ichirō Saitō
  was Japanese film composer.- Film score :He made film music for 334 films including:* Lightning * Tea Over Rice or The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice...
  
  , film composer (d. 1979)

Deaths

• January 15 - Ernest Reyer
  Ernest Reyer
  Ernest Reyer, the adopted name of Louis Étienne Ernest Rey, was a French opera composer and music critic .- Biography :...
  
  , composer and music critic (b. 1823)
• March 22 - Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• March 25 - Ruperto Chapí
  Ruperto Chapí
  Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores.Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a Valencian barber. He trained in his home town and Madrid...
  
  , composer (b. 1851)
• May 6 - Fanny Cerrito
  Fanny Cerrito
  Fanny Cerrito, originally Francesca Cerrito , was an Italian ballet dancer and choreographer.Born in Naples, she studied under Carlo Blasis and the French choreographers Jules Perrot and Arthur Saint-Léon, to the latter of whom she was married from 1845–1851. Notable roles included Ondine and a...
  
  , ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1817)
• May 19 - Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
  
  , Spanish composer (born 1860)
• June 1 - Giuseppe Martucci
  Giuseppe Martucci
  Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...
  
  , composer and conductor
• June 7 - P. W. Halton
  P. W. Halton
  P. W. Halton , was an Irish-born conductor. He is best known for his long tenure as music director and conductor of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring companies during the original runs and early revivals of the Savoy Operas, including many of the New York premieres.-Life and career:Patrick...
  
  , conductor (b. 1841)
• October 6 - Dudley Buck
  Dudley Buck
  Dudley Buck was an American composer, organist, and writer on music. He published several books, most notably the Dictionary of Musical Terms and Influence of the Organ in History, which was published in New York in 1882. He is best known today for his organ composition, Concert Variations on the...
  
  , organist, composer and music writer (b. 1839)
• October 13 - Julius Ruthardt
  Julius Ruthardt
  Julius Ruthardt was a German violinist and composer.Born in Stuttgart to Friedrich Ruthardt, an oboist and composer, the younger Ruthardt became a violinist in the Stuttgart court orchestra at a young age in 1855, then Kapellmeister at the theatre in Riga from 1871 and in Leipzig from 1882...
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1841)
• November 8 - Charles Bordes
  Charles Bordes
  Charles Bordes was a French music teacher and composer.-Timeline:Bordes studied pianoforte with Antoine François Marmontel and composition with César Franck. He was organist and maître de chapelle at Nogent-sur-Marne from 1887 to 1890...
  
  , composer (b. 1863)
• November 16 - Francis Thomé
  Francis Thomé
  Francis Thomé , was a French pianist and composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Jules Laurent Duprato and Ambroise Thomas. After leaving the Conservatoire he became well known as a composer of salon pieces and was in demand as a pianist and teacher...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1850)
• December 11 - Domenico Salvatori
  Domenico Salvatori
  Domenico Salvatori along with Alessandro Moreschi, Domenico Mustafà and Giovanni Cesari, was one of the famous castrati singers of the late 19th century....
  
  , castrato singer (b. 1855)
• December 15 - Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...
  
  , guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Ernest Hogan
    Ernest Hogan
    Ernest Hogan was the first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show and helped create the musical genre of ragtime....
    
    , ragtime musician (b. 1865)
  • August Jaeger
    August Jaeger
    August Jaeger was an Anglo-German music publisher, who developed a close friendship with the English composer Edward Elgar.Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Jaeger met Elgar through his employment at the London music publisher Novello...
    
    , music publisher (b. 1860)
  • Katharine Purvis
    Katharine Purvis
    Katharine E. Nash Purvis is best known as the lyricist for When the Saints Are Marching In.Purvis was the daughter of a Methodist minister in Pennsylvania. After graduating from a seminary in 1860, she became a music teacher at the seminary of a Methodist Episcopal Church in Williamsport,...
    
    , lyricist of "When The Saints Go Marching In
    When the Saints Go Marching In
    "When the Saints Go Marching In", often referred to as "The Saints", is an American gospel hymn that has taken on certain aspects of folk music. The precise origins of the song are not known. Though it originated as a spiritual, today people are more likely to hear it played by a jazz band...
    
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  • Leopold Rosenfeld
    Leopold Rosenfeld
    Leopold Rosenfeld was a Danish composer.-External links:...
    
    , composer (b. 1849)
  • Pallavi Seshayyar
    Pallavi Seshayyar
    Pallavi Seshayyer was a composer of Carnatic music, who followed the traditions of the famous composer Tyagaraja. Seshayyar was a singer in the court of the king of Mysore. As a singer, he was an expert of the techniques of Ragam-Thanam-Pallavi, a unique style of singing Carnatic music. This...
    
    , Carnatic music composer (b. 1842)
  • Ivan Vsevolozhsky
    Ivan Vsevolozhsky
    Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky was the Director of the Imperial Theatres in Russia from 1881 to 1898.A competent administrator, Vsevolozhsky ran the Imperial Theatres with a determination for excellence...
    
    , director of the Imperial Theatres of Russia