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  • January 26 - Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier
    Der Rosenkavalier
    Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...

     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...

    , in Dresden
    Dresden
    Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

    ; the librettist is Hugo von Hoffmansthal and the director is Max Reinhardt
    Max Reinhardt
    ----Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theater and film director and actor.-Biography:...

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  • February 21 - 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...

    , who had contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic
    New York Philharmonic
    The New York Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States. It is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five"...

    , of which he had been principal conductor since 1909.
  • April 8 - 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...

     embarks from New York to France; he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later.
  • May 19 - Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

    's opera, L'heure espagnole
    L'heure espagnole
    L'heure espagnole is a one-act opera, described as a comédie musicale, with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on his play of the same name first performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon on 28 October 1904...

    , is premiered at the Opéra Comique
    Opera Comique
    The Opera Comique was a 19th-century theatre constructed in Westminster, London, between Wych Street and Holywell Street with entrances on the East Strand. It opened in 1870 and was demolished in 1902, to make way for the construction of the Aldwych and Kingsway...

    , in a double bill with 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...

    's 1907 opera Thérèse
    Thérèse (opera)
    Thérèse is an opera in two acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie. It was first performed at the Opéra in Monte Carlo on 7 February 1907, with Lucy Arbell in the title role...

    .
  • May 24 - 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...

     conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2
    Symphony No. 2 (Elgar)
    Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 63, was completed on 28 February 1911 and was premiered at the London Musical Festival at the Queen's Hall by the Queen's Hall Orchestra on 24 May 1911 with the composer conducting...

     in London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

  • June 15 - Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

    's ballet Petrushka
    Petrushka
    Petrouchka or Petrushka is a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947....

     premieres in Paris; the lead dancer is Vaslav Nijinsky
    Vaslav Nijinsky
    Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations...

    .
  • June 29 - Bernard Herrmann
    Bernard Herrmann
    Bernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...

     born in New York.
  • November 20 - 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 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...

     is premièred in Munich
    Munich
    Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

    , with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor. He is considered one of the best known conductors of the 20th century. Walter was born in Berlin, but is known to have lived in several countries between 1933 and 1939, before finally settling in the United States in 1939...

     conducting.
  • Aino Ackté
    Aino Ackté
    Aino Ackté was a Finnish soprano. She was the first international star of the Finnish opera scene after Alma Fohström, and a groundbreaker for the domestic field....

     and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

    .
  • "Elsässisches Fahnenlied
    Elsässisches Fahnenlied
    The Elsässisches Fahnenlied was written by Emil Woerth in German when Alsace was part of the German Empire...

    " is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
  • 16-year-old Carl Orff
    Carl Orff
    Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...

     publishes his first compositions.


Published popular music

  • "After That I Want A Little More" w. Alfred Bryan 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...

  • "After The Honeymoon" 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...

  • "Alexander's Ragtime Band
    Alexander's Ragtime Band
    "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. It was his first major hit, in 1911. There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft of "A Real Slow Drag" submitted by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a...

    " 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...

  • "All Alone" w. William Dillon
    William Dillon
    William Austin Dillon was an American songwriter and Vaudevillian. He is best known as the lyricist for the song "I Want a Girl " , written in collaboration with Harry Von Tilzer. It can be heard in Show Business and The Jolson Story...

     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...

  • "Any Old Iron
    Any Old Iron (song)
    "Any Old Iron" is an old British Music hall song written by Charles Collins, Fred Terry and E.A. Sheppard. The song was made famous by Harry Champion, who sang it as part of his act and recorded it....

    " w.m. Charles Collins & Terry Sheppard
  • "Archibald, Certainly Not" w.m. Alfred Glover & John St John
  • "Baby Rose" by Louis Weslyn
  • "Billy" w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
  • "Bring Back My Lovin' Man" 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...

  • "Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
    Thurland Chattaway
    Thurland Chattaway was a popular music composer, active from approximately 1898 to 1912. Most famous for writing the words to the popular hit "Red Wing". Other songs include "Little Black Me" and "Can't You Take It Back and Change It For a Boy"....

  • "Daly's Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly
  • "Down Home Rag" m. Wilbur Sweatman
    Wilbur Sweatman
    Wilbur C. Sweatman was an African-American ragtime and dixieland jazz composer, bandleader, and clarinetist....

  • "Down The Field" w. Caleb O'Connor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman
  • "El Choclo" w. Francice Luban m. Angel G. Villoldo
  • "Everybody's Doing it Now" 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...

  • "The Fire Bird" m. Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

  • "Floral Dance
    The Floral Dance
    The Floral Dance is a popular English song describing the annual Furry Dance in Helston, Cornwall.The music and lyrics were written in 1911 by Kate Emily Barkley Moss who was a professional violinist, pianist and concert singer...

    " w.m. Katie Moss
  • "The Gaby Glide" w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis A. Hirsch
  • "Hello! Susie Green" w. Lester Barrett m. Herman Darewski
  • "Honey Love" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
    George W. Meyer
    George W. Meyer aka Geo. W. Meyer was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter....

  • "Honeysuckle Rag" m. George Botsford
    George Botsford
    George Botsford was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in Iowa. His first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer -- Cake Walk," published in 1899. His most important rag is "Black and White Rag," published in 1908...

  • "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl)" w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer
    Harry Von Tilzer
    Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...

  • "I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as ""I'm Going Back To Dixie") 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...

  • "If Every Hour Were A Day" w. Anna Driver m. Alfred Bryan
    Alfred Bryan
    Alfred Bryan was a United States songwriter and pacifist.-Songs:His hits included*"Peg O' My Heart"*"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"*"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"...

  • "In The Land Of Harmony" w. Bert Kalmar
    Bert Kalmar
    Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business...

     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...

  • "It's A Long Lane That Has No Turning" w. Arthur Penn m. Manuel Klein
  • "Jimmy Valentine" 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:...

  • "The Little Grey Home In The West" w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m. Hermann Löhr
  • "Love Is Mine" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Clarence G. Gartner
  • "Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before" w. Alfred Bryan 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...

  • "Mary O'Hoolihan" Berlin
  • "(On) Moonlight Bay" 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. 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...

  • "Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" w. Bert Kalmar 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...

  • "My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
  • "My Hula Hula Love" 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. 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...

  • "My Rosary Of Dreams" w.m. E. F. Dusenberg & C. M. Denison
  • "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" 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...

  • "The Oceana Roll" w. Roger Lewis
    Roger Lewis
    Roger Lewis , a former Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University, is the biographer of Anthony Burgess. Lewis's book, Anthony Burgess: A Life, was published in 2002....

     m. Lucien Denni
  • "Oh Baby Mine" w.m. Cecille Boucher
  • "Oh, You Beautiful Doll
    Oh, You Beautiful Doll
    "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" is a ragtime love song published in 1911 with words by Seymour Brown and music by Nat D. Ayer. The song was one of the first with a twelve-bar opening. It is well-known by its chorus:*...

    " w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
  • "One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" 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...

  • "Ragtime Violin!" 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...

  • "Red Rose 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. 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 Ring On The Finger Is Worth Two On The Phone" w. Jack Mahoney m. George W. Meyer
  • "Roamin' In The Gloamin'
    Roamin' In The Gloamin'
    "Roamin' In The Gloamin" is a popular love song written by Sir Harry Lauder in 1911. The song tells of a man and his sweetheart courting in the evening. The title comes from the chorus:*Lauder, Harry. "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" . New York: T.B. Harms & Francis Day & Hunter .*Szasz, Ferenc Morton....

    " w.m. Harry Lauder
    Harry Lauder
    Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...

  • "Run Home And Tell Your Mother" 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...

  • "Somewhere A Voice Is Calling" w. Eileen Newton m. Arthur F. Tate
  • "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" w.m. Billy Merson
    Billy Merson
    Billy Merson was an English music hall performer and songwriter. He began his career while working in a lace-making factory, and doing shows in the evenings. It took some time until he could make a living from his stage work. "For five or six years on the stage, I survived on a salary hardly...

  • "Spanish Love" 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...

    , Vincent Bryan, 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...

  • "Texas Tommy Swing" Sid Brown & Val Harris
  • "That Baboon Baby Dance" w. Dave Oppenheim m. Joe Cooper
  • "That Hypnotizing Man" w. Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...

     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"....

  • "That Mysterious Rag" 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...

  • "That Was Before I Met You" w. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
  • "There's A Girl In Havana" 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...

    , E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
  • "They Always Pick On Me" by 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...

     and Stanley Murphy
  • "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
    Ernest Ball
    Ernest R. Ball was a United States singer and songwriter, most famous for composing the music for the song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" in 1912. He was not, himself, Irish....

  • "To The Land Of My Own Romance" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
    Victor Herbert
    Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...

  • "Too Much Mustard" m. Cecil Macklin
  • "Virginia Lou" 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...

    , Earl Taylor
  • "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" w.m. Gerald Grafton & Harry Lauder
    Harry Lauder
    Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...

  • "When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" 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...

  • "When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" 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...

  • "When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" 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...

  • "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" w. Edgar Leslie
    Edgar Leslie
    Edgar Leslie was an American songwriter. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G. Harlan. Other notable artists he worked with are:...

     m. Lewis F. Muir
    Lewis F. Muir
    Lewis F. Muir, born Louis Meuer was an American composer and ragtime pianist.Muir started as a pianist in St. Louis and played in the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. He moved to New York in 1910. His first published composition was "Play That Barber-Shop Chord" from 1910. Vaudeville entertainer...

  • "When You Kiss An Italian Girl" 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...

  • "When You're Away" w. A. Seymour Brown & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
  • "When You're In Town" 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...

  • "The Whistling Rag" 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...

  • "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" 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...

     & Vincent Bryan
  • "Yiddisha Nightingale" 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've Got Me Hypnotized" 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...


Hit Recordings

  • "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me
    Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me
    "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me" is a popular song, first published in 1910, and written by Thomas J. Gray and Fred Fisher...

    " - 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...

  • "Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man" - Nora Bayes
    Nora Bayes
    Nora Bayes was a popular American singer, comedienne and actress of the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...

     and 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...


Classical music

  • Joseph Achron
    Joseph Achron
    Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin, settled in USA. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work...

     - Hebrew Melody
  • Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...

     - The Sea
  • George Butterworth
    George Butterworth
    George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E...

     - Two English Idylls
  • Frederick Delius
    Frederick Delius
    Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...

     - Summer Night on the River
  • Reinhold Glière
    Reinhold Glière
    Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...

     - Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
  • Enrique Granados
    Enrique Granados
    Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...

     - Goyescas
    Goyescas
    Goyescas, Op. 11, subtitled Los majos enamorados , is a piano suite written in 1911 by Spanish composer Enrique Granados. This piano suite is usually considered Granados's crowning creation and was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, although the piano pieces have not been authoritatively...

  • Gustav Holst
    Gustav Holst
    Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....

     - Second Suite for Military Band in F
  • Charles Ives
    Charles Ives
    Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...

     - Requiem S. 333
  • Nikolai Medtner - Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky
    Nikolai Myaskovsky
    Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...

     - Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed, Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945) written.
  • 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...

     - Concerto for violin and orchestra
  • 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...

     - Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
    Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
    Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 is a set of pieces for solo piano written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, published in 1913.-History:...

  • Aleksandr 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,...

     - Piano Sonata No. 6
    Sonata No. 6 (Scriabin)
    The Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62, by Alexander Scriabin, was composed in 1911. Although it was named the sixth sonata, the piece was preceded by the Sonata No. 7. As it is one of the late piano sonatas of Scriabin's career, the music consists of a single movement, and is highly atonal...

    , Piano Sonata No. 7
    Sonata No. 7 (Scriabin)
    The Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64, subtitled White Mass, was written by Alexander Scriabin in 1911. As one of the late piano sonatas of Scriabin's career, the music is highly chromatic and almost atonal.-Background:...

     written
  • Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

     - Petrushka
  • Ethel Smyth
    Ethel Smyth
    Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...

     - The March of the Women
    The March of the Women
    "The March of the Women" was the anthem of the English women's suffrage movement. It was composed in 1910 by Ethel Smyth as a unison song with optional piano accompaniment, with words by Cicely Hamilton. Smyth dedicated the song to the Women's Social and Political Union...


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...

  • 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...

     - Bluebeard's Castle
  • Frederick Delius
    Frederick Delius
    Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...

     - Fenimore and Gerda
  • 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...

     - Treemonisha
    Treemonisha
    Treemonisha is an opera composed by the famed African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Though it encompasses a wide range of musical styles other than ragtime, and Joplin did not refer to it as such, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "ragtime opera"...

  • Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

     - L'Heure Espagnole
  • 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...

     - Der Rosenkavalier
    Der Rosenkavalier
    Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...


Musical theater

  • Madame Sherry  New York
  • 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....

     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 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 May 20 and ran for 340 performances
  • The Fascinating Widow Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre
    Liberty Theatre
    The Liberty Theatre was a Broadway theater from 1904 to 1933, located at 236 West 42nd Street in New York City.In 1996 it was used for a staged reading of T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, with actress Fiona Shaw, directed by Deborah Warner. The New York Times review described the theater as...

     on September 11 and transferred to the Grand Opera House
    Grand Opera House
    Grand Opera House may refer to:in Canada*Grand Opera House in England*Grand Opera House in France*Palais Garnier in Paris, often called the "Grand Opera House"in Northern Ireland*Grand Opera House in the United States...

     on November 13 for a total run of 65 performances. Starring Julian Eltinge
    Julian Eltinge
    Julian Eltinge , born William Julian Dalton, was an American stage and screen actor and female impersonator. After appearing in the Boston Cadets Revue at the age of ten in feminine garb, Eltinge garnered notice from other producers and made his first appearance on Broadway in 1904...

    , Winona Winter, Natalia Ault and Eddie Garvie.
  • Gypsy Love (Zigeunerliebe) opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre
    Globe Theatre
    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...

     on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
  • Der Lila Domino (The Lilac Domino
    The Lilac Domino
    Der lila Domino is an operetta in three acts by Charles Cuvillier. The original German libretto is by Emmerich von Gatti and Béla Jenbach, about a gambling count who falls in love at a masquerade ball with a noblewoman wearing a lilac domino mask.The operetta achieved far greater popularity in...

    ) - Leipzig production
  • Marriage a la Carte
    Marriage a la Carte
    Marriage a la Carte was a three-act Broadway musical comedy composed and written by C. M. S. McClellan and scored by Ivan Caryll.The play was staged by Austen Hurgon with musical direction provided by J. Sebastian Hiller and Carl H. Engel...

     Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
  • The Pink Lady Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

     production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre
    New Amsterdam Theatre
    The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square...

     on March 13 and ran for 312 performances
  • The Quaker Girl
    The Quaker Girl
    The Quaker Girl is a Edwardian musical comedy in three acts with a book by James T. Tanner, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and music by Lionel Monckton. In its story, The Quaker Girl contrasts dour Quaker morality with Parisienne high fashion. The protagonist, Prudence, is thrown out...

     Broadway production opened at the Park Theatre on October 23 and ran for 240 performances
  • The Revue of Revues 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 Winter Garden Theatre
    Winter Garden Theatre
    The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....

     on September 27 and ran for 55 performances. Starring Gaby Deslys
    Gaby Deslys
    Gaby Deslys was a dancer, singer, and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France. She selected her name for her stage career. It is an abbreviation of Gabrielle of the Lillies. During the 1910s she was exceedingly popular worldwide, making $4,000 a week in the United States alone...

    , Harry Jolson, Ernie Hare
    Ernie Hare
    Thomas Ernest Hare was a bass/baritone who recorded prolifically during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program.-Career:...

     and Frank Tinney.

Births

  • January 18 - Gábor Darvas
    Gábor Darvas
    Gábor Darvas was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries.He was born at Szatmárnémeti...

    , composer (d. 1985)
  • January 20 - Roy Eldridge
    Roy Eldridge
    Roy David Eldridge , nicknamed "Little Jazz" was an American jazz trumpet player. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos and his strong influence on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most exciting musicians of the swing era and a...

    , jazz musician (d. 1989)
  • February 3 - Jehan Alain
    Jehan Alain
    Jehan Ariste Alain was a French organist and composer.-Biography:Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the western suburbs of Paris, into a family of musicians. His father, Albert Alain was an enthusiastic organist, composer and organ-builder who had studied with Alexandre Guilmant and Louis...

    , organist and composer (d. 1940)
  • February 5 - Jussi Björling
    Jussi Björling
    Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th Century, Björling appeared frequently at the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as well as at other major European opera...

    , 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....

     tenor (d. 1960)
  • February 11 - Wesley Rose
    Wesley Rose
    Wesley Rose was an American music industry executive and record producer.The son of songwriter Fred Rose, he was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied to become a Chartered Accountant...

    , record producer (d. 1990)
  • February 20 - Robert McBride
    Robert McBride (composer)
    Robert McBride was an American composer and instrumentalist.-Biography:McBride was born in Tucson, Arizona, and learned from an early age to play clarinet, oboe, saxophone and the piano. He studied composition with Otto Luening at the University of Arizona, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in...

    , composer (d. 2007)
  • March 7 - Stefan Kisielewski
    Stefan Kisielewski
    Stefan Kisielewski , nicknames Kisiel, Julia Hołyńska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Staliński, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the UPR, the polish libertarian and conservative political party.Kisielewski was born to a Polish...

    , Polish composer (d. 1991)
  • March 8 - Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

    , composer (d. 2000)
  • March 16 - Harper Goff
    Harper Goff
    Harper Goff , born Ralph Harper Goff, was an American artist, musician, and actor. For many years, he was associated with the Walt Disney Company, in the process of which he contributed to various major films, as well as to the planning of the Disney theme parks. During World War II, he was also an...

    , Disney special effects man and Dixieland musician (d. 1993)
  • March 18 - Smiley Burnette
    Smiley Burnette
    Lester Alvin Burnett , better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical...

    , singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
  • April 6 - Guillermo Portabales
    Guillermo Portabales
    Guillermo Portabales was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized the guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s...

    , singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
  • April 8 - Ichiro Fujiyama
    Ichiro Fujiyama
    , born as , was a popular Japanese singer and composer, known for his contribution to Japanese popular music called ryūkōka by his Western classical music skills. He was born in Chūō, Tokyo, and graduated from the Tokyo Music School. Although he was regarded as a tenor singer in Japanese popular...

    , Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
  • May 8 - Robert Johnson, blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
  • May 13 - Maxine Sullivan
    Maxine Sullivan
    Maxine Sullivan , born Marietta Williams, was an American blues and jazz singer.She was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and married jazz musician John Kirby in 1938 , and stride pianist Cliff Jackson in 1956...

    , singer (d. 1987)
  • May 18 - Big Joe Turner
    Big Joe Turner
    Big Joe Turner was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and...

    , blues shouter (d. 1985)
  • May 20 - Vet Boswell of the Boswell Sisters
    Boswell Sisters
    The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell , Connee Boswell , and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell , noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation...

     singing group (d. 1988)
  • June 9 - Frederick May
    Frederick May (composer)
    Frederick May was an Irish composer and arranger. His musical career was seriously hindered by a lifelong hearing problem and, despite displaying early promise, he produced relatively few compositions.-Early years:...

    , Irish composer (d. 1985)
  • June 24 - Portia White
    Portia White
    Portia May White , was a singer who achieved international fame because of her voice and stage presence. As a Black Canadian, her popularity helped to open previously closed doors for talented blacks who followed....

    , singer (d. 1968)
  • June 29 - Bernard Herrmann
    Bernard Herrmann
    Bernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...

    , film composer (d. 1975)
  • July 4 - Mitch Miller
    Mitch Miller
    Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive...

    , arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player (d. 2010)
  • July 7 - Gian Carlo Menotti
    Gian Carlo Menotti
    Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...

    , composer (d. 2007)
  • July 16 - Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....

    , dancer, actress and singer (d. 1995)
  • July 26 - Buddy Clark
    Buddy Clark
    Buddy Clark was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the...

    , singer (d. 1949)
  • July 29 - Ján Cikker
    Ján Cikker
    Ján Cikker was a Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in Slovakia, the Herder Prize and the UNESCO Prize .-Life:...

    , composer (d. 1989)
  • July 31 - George Liberace
    George Liberace
    George Liberace was an American musician and television performer.Born in Menasha, Wisconsin, he was the elder brother and business partner of famed US entertainer Liberace...

    , violinist and elder brother of Liberace
    Liberace
    Wladziu Valentino Liberace , best known simply as Liberace, was a famous American pianist and vocalist.In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television and endorsements, Liberace became world-renowned...

     (d. 1983)
  • August 5 - Roger Roger
    Roger Roger (composer)
    Roger Roger was a French film composer and bandleader. His aliases included: Eric Swan, Cecil Leuter, the last being a pseudonym he used for his electronic productions...

    , film composer and bandleader (d. 2007)
  • August 6 - Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball
    Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...

    , actress and singer (d. 1989)
  • August 27 - Kay Walsh
    Kay Walsh
    Kay Walsh was an English actress and dancer. She grew up in Pimlico, raised by her grandmother....

    , dancer and actress (d. 2005)
  • September 2 - Floyd Council
    Floyd Council
    Floyd Council was an American blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s....

    , blues musician (d. 1976)
  • September 11 - Bola de Nieve
    Bola de Nieve
    Bola de Nieve , born Ignacio Jacinto Villa, was a successful Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter, whose round, black face earned him the nickname by which he was always known....

    , singer, pianist, and songwriter (d. 1971)
  • September 19 - Allan Pettersson
    Allan Pettersson
    Gustav Allan Pettersson was a Swedish composer. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century...

    , Swedish composer (d. 1980)
  • October 7
    • Vaughn Monroe
      Vaughn Monroe
      Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...

      , singer and bandleader (d. 1973)
    • Shura Cherkassky
      Shura Cherkassky
      Shura Cherkassky was an American classical pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone...

      , pianist (d. 1995)
  • October 24 - Sonny Terry
    Sonny Terry
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry was a blind American Piedmont blues musician. He was widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.-Career:Terry was born in Greensboro, Georgia...

    , blues musician (d. 1986)
  • October 26 - Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson – January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel"...

    , gospel singer (d. 1972)
  • November 5 - Roy Rogers
    Roy Rogers
    Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye , was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain...

    , singer, actor (d. 1998)
  • December 3 - Nino Rota
    Nino Rota
    Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...

    , composer (d. 1979)
  • December 14 - Spike Jones
    Spike Jones
    Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other Warner Brothers cartoon characters, performed a drunken, hiccuping verse for 1942's "Clink! Clink! Another Drink"...

    , bandleader (d. 1965)
  • December 15 - Stan Kenton
    Stan Kenton
    Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....

    , bandleader (d. 1979)
  • December 25 - Eric Gilder
    Eric Gilder (musicologist)
    Eric Gilder was an English musicologist. He was a composer, teacher, conductor and pianist.-Brief biography:...

    , musicologist (d. 2000)
  • December 27 - Anna Russell
    Anna Russell
    Anna Russell, née Anna Claudia Russell-Brown was an English–Canadian singer and comedienne. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano...

    , singer and comedienne (d. 2006)
  • date unknown - Blanche Winogron
    Blanche Winogron
    Blanche Winogron was an American harpsichordist, pianist, and teacher.She taught at the Mannes College of Music from 1961 to 1969, and the New England Conservatory of Music from 1968 to 1977. Her students included Peter Sykes and Wendy Redlinger...

    , harpsichordist (d. 2002)

Deaths

  • January 8 - Pietro Gori
    Pietro Gori
    Pietro Gori was an Italian lawyer, journalist, intellectual and anarchist poet. He is known for his political activities, and as author of some of the most famous anarchist songs of the late 19th century, including Addio a Lugano , Stornelli d'esilio , Ballata per Sante Caserio Pietro Gori (14...

    , anarchist poet and songwriter (b. 1865)
  • January 9 - Edwin Arthur Jones
    Edwin Arthur Jones
    Edwin Arthur Jones, was an American composer. He was called "one modest man who knows the power of music" by Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country. This modest man, from a rural Massachusetts town about 20 miles south of Boston, composed some very significant works...

    , composer (b. 1853)
  • January 16 - Wilhelm Berger
    Wilhelm Berger
    Wilhelm Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.-Life:Berger's father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston as a music shopkeeper and made a name for himself as an author after the family had returned to Bremen in 1862. Early on, his son showed signs of musical interest...

    , pianist, conductor and composer (born 1861)
  • February 1 - Angel Mislan
    Angel Mislan
    Ángel Mislan , was a composer of Puerto Rican Danzas.-Early years:Mislan was born in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico where he was raised and educated. The small town is located in the western part of Puerto Rico. His father was a music teacher who gave private lessons on the use of musical instruments...

    , composer (b. 1862)
  • February 20 - Alexander Kopylov
    Alexander Kopylov
    Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov or Kopilov was a Russian composer and violinist....

    , violinist and composer (b. 1854)
  • March 29 - Alexandre Guilmant
    Alexandre Guilmant
    Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer.- Short biography :Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer...

    , organist and composer (b. 1837)
  • April 10 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
    Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
    Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , also known as M. K. Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings...

    , painter and composer (b. 1875)
  • May 5 - James A. Bland
    James A. Bland
    James Alan Bland , also known as Jimmy Bland, was an African American musician and song writer.-Biography:...

    , musician and songwriter (b. 1854)
  • May 18 - 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...

    , composer (b. 1860)
  • May 29 - W. S. Gilbert
    W. S. Gilbert
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...

    , of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1836)
  • June 7 - Carlos Fernández Shaw
    Carlos Fernández Shaw
    Insert non-formatted text hereCarlos Fernández Shaw was a Spanish poet and playwright. He wrote the libretti for the operas Margarita la tornera by Ruperto Chapí and La vida breve by Manuel de Falla.Fernández Shaw was the son of a Spanish father and an English mother...

    , librettist (b. 1865)
  • June 14 - Johan Svendsen
    Johan Svendsen
    Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....

    , conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1840)
  • June 18 - Franjo Kuhač
    Franjo Kuhac
    Franjo Ksaver Kuhač was a piano teacher, choral conductor, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing 1,600 folk songs...

    , piano teacher, conductor and musicologist (b. 1834)
  • July 2 - Felix Mottl
    Felix Mottl
    Felix Josef von Mottl was an Austrian conductor and composer. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed three operas, of which Agnes Bernauer was the most successful, as well as a string quartet and numerous songs and other music...

    , conductor and composer (b. 1856)
  • July 3 - Madeline Schiller
    Madeline Schiller
    Madeline Schiller was an English-born pianist.After early studies in London with Benjamin Isaacs, Julius Benedict, and Charles Hallé, in 1860 she went to Leipzig where she studied with Ignaz Moscheles. She made her debut there on January 23, 1862, playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1...

    , pianist (b. c. 1845)
  • August 2
    • 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...

      , composer (b. 1869)
    • Jose Joaquin Palma
      José Joaquín Palma
      Jose Joaquin Palma Jose Joaquin Palma Jose Joaquin Palma (Bayamo, Cuba, September 11, 1844 - Guatemala City. August 2, 1911. Son of Pedro Palma y Aguilera and Dolores Lasso de la Vega. Went to "San José" School in Bayamo under the direction of José María Izaguirre whom he would later meet again in...

      , lyricist of the national anthem of Guatemala (b.1884)
  • August 10 - Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
    Hans Christian Lumbye
    Hans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a military band. In 1829, he joined the Horse Guards in Copenhagen, still continuing his music...

  • October 3 - Paul Sarebresole
    Paul Sarebresole
    Paul Sarebresole was an early composer of ragtime music.Sarebresole was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His French ancestors spelled the family name "Sarrebresolles"....

    , ragtime composer (b.
  • October 13 - Harry Rickards
    Harry Rickards
    Harry Rickards , born Henry Benjamin Leete, was an English-born comedian and theatre owner, active in Australia.-Early life:...

    , comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
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