Events

• February 28 - In a concert in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
  , 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...
  
   conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Nielsen)
  The Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia Espansiva", Op. 27, FS 60, between 1910 and 1911 by . It typically lasts around 33 minutes.The symphony followed Nielsen's tenure as bandmaster at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen...
  
   (the Sinfonia espansiva) and his Violin Concerto
  Violin Concerto (Nielsen)
  Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Violin and orchestra, op. 33 [D.F.61] was written for Hungarian violinist Dr. Emil Telmányi, Nielsen's son-in-law, in 1911. The concerto has two movements.-Background:...
  
  
• March - Hart A. Wand
  Hart A. Wand
  Hart A. Wand , born in Kansas of German extraction, was an early fiddler and bandleader from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In the musical world he is chiefly noted for publishing the "Dallas Blues" in March 1912 . "Dallas Blues" was the first ever published twelve-bar blues song.Little is known about...
  
   published "Dallas Blues
  Dallas Blues
  "Dallas Blues", written by Hart Wand, was the first true blues song ever published. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", a Tin Pan Alley song whose first verse is twelve-bar blues, had been published a year earlier...
  
  ", a jazz standard
  Jazz standard
  Jazz standards are musical compositions which are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be...
  
   and an early published blues song.
• June 26 - Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's Symphony No. 9
  Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1909 and 1910, and was the last symphony that he completed.Though the work is often described as being in the key of D major, the tonal scheme of the symphony as whole is progressive...
  
   is premiered in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
   by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  The Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world....
  
   conducted by 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  's Pierrot Lunaire
  Pierrot Lunaire
  Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds 'Pierrot lunaire' , commonly known simply as Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 , is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg...
  
  debuts in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• W.C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues
  The Memphis Blues
  "The Memphis Blues" is a song described by its composer, W.C. Handy, as a "Southern Rag." It was self-published by Handy in September, 1912 and has been recorded by many artists over the years.-"Mr. Crump":...
  
  ", one of the first blues
  Blues
  Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
  
   songs to become a hit.
• 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....
  
   founds an 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...
  
   festival in Savonlinna
  Savonlinna
  Savonlinna is a town and a municipality of inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region. The Finnish name of the town means "Castle of Savonia" and the Swedish name means "Newcastle".- History :...
  
  ; after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival
  Savonlinna Opera Festival
  Savonlinna Opera Festival is held annually in the city of Savonlinna in Finland. The Festival takes place at the medieval Olavinlinna , built in 1475...
  
   will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland
• The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival
  Birmingham Triennial Music Festival
  The Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, in Birmingham, England, founded in 1784, was the longest-running classical music festival of its kind. Its last performance was in 1912.-History:...
  
   is held for the last time.
• William Henry Bell
  William Henry Bell
  William Henry Bell, known largely by his initials, W H Bell , was an English composer, conductor and lecturer....
  
   becomes director of the South African College of Music
  South African College of Music
  The South African College of Music, abbreviated as SACM, is a department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. It is located on the University's Lower Campus in Rondebosch, Cape Town.-Study opportunities:...
  
   in Cape Town.

Published popular music

• "After All That I've Been To You" w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith
  Chris Smith (composer)
  Chris Smith was an American composer and performer.Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante...
  
  
• "Alexander's Bag-Pipe Band" 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...
  
  , E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
• "All Night Long" w.m. Shelton Brooks
  Shelton Brooks
  Shelton Brooks was a popular music and jazz composer who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century.Brooks was born in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada...
  
  
• "And The Green Grass Grew All Around
  And The Green Grass Grew All Around
  And The Green Grass Grows All Around, also known as The Green Grass Grew All Around is a song that was first published in 1912, with words by William Jerome and melody by Harry Von Tilzer. Today it is a popular children's song, and a good example of a cumulative song.There are many variations of...
  
  " 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. 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...
  
  
• "At The Devil's Ball" 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...
  
  
• "Bagdad" w. Anne Caldwell
  Anne Caldwell
  Anne Caldwell , also known as Anne Caldwell O'Dea, was a librettist and lyricist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She wrote both pop songs and Broadway shows including working with Jerome Kern.-External links:...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee
  Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee
  "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" is a popular song.The music was written by Henry I. Marshall, the lyrics by Stanley Murphy. The song was published in 1912.The song has since become a standard, recorded by many artists...
  
  " w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
• "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith
  Chris Smith (composer)
  Chris Smith was an American composer and performer.Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante...
  
  
• "Becky's Got A Job In A Musical Show" 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...
  
  
• "Come Back To Me, My Melody" 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...
  
  
• "Come Back To Playland With Me" w.m. Maude Lambert
• "Cuddle Up And Cling To Me" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry L. Marshall
• "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper was an American songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation...
  
  
• " A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
  Eric Coates
  Eric Coates was an English composer of light music and a viola player.-Life:Eric was born in Hucknall in Nottinghamshire to William Harrison Coates , a surgeon, and his wife, Mary Jane Gwynne, hailing from Usk in Monmouthshire...
  
  
• "Do It Again" 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...
  
  
• "Down In Dear Old New Orleans" w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden
• "Dreams Of Long Ago" w. Earl Carroll m. Enrico Caruso 
• "The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!" 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...
  
  
• "Everybody Loves A Chicken" w.m. Bobby Jones
• "Everybody Two-Step" w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer
• "Florida Rag" V. Lowry
• "The Funny Little Melody" 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...
  
  
• "Giannina Mia" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
  
• "Goodnight, Nurse" w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker
• "He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee" w.m.Ray Goetz & 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...
  
  
• "Hitchy-Koo" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man and eventually established himself as one of the leading songwriters on Tin Pan Alley.Gilbert began his career touring with John L...
  
   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...
  
   & Maurice Abrahams
• "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" 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'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" 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"....
  
  
• "In My Harem" 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...
  
  
• "In the Garden" w.m. C. Austin Miles
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary
  It's a Long Way to Tipperary
  It's a Long Way to Tipperary is a British music hall and marching song written by Jack Judge and co-credited to, but not co-written by, Henry James "Harry" Williams. It was allegedly written for a 5 shilling bet in Stalybridge on 30 January 1912 and performed the next night at the local music hall...
  
  " w.m. Jack Judge
  Jack Judge
  Jack Judge was a song-writer and music-hall entertainer best remembered for writing the song It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary.- Life :...
  
   & Harry H. Williams
• "Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile" 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...
  
  
• "Kentucky Sue" by 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...
  
  
• "The Land Of Golden Dreams" w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry
• "Last Night Was The End Of The World" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "The Last Shot Got Him" w.m. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   & Cecil Smith
• "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz 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...
  
   from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels'
• "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu
• "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
  
• "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes
• "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. William Christopher Handy
  W. C. Handy
  William Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
  
  
• "The Million Dollar Ball" 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
• "My Melancholy Baby
  My Melancholy Baby
  "My Melancholy Baby" is a popular song published in 1912 and first sung publicly by William Frawley. The music was written by Ernie Burnett, the lyrics by George A...
  
  " w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett
• "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  

• "On The Mississippi" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll & Arthur Fields
  Arthur Fields
  Arthur Fields was a United States singer and songwriter.He was born Abraham Finkelstein in Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, but grew up mainly in Utica, New York. He became a professional singer as a youngster...
  
  
• "Parisienne" 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"....
  
  
• "Pick, Pick, Pick Pick On The Mandolin, Antonio" 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...
  
  
• "Ragging The Baby To Sleep" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man and eventually established himself as one of the leading songwriters on Tin Pan Alley.Gilbert began his career touring with John L...
  
   m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Ragtime Cowboy Joe
  Ragtime Cowboy Joe
  "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular song lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. © 1912, F.A. Mills, 122 W. 36th St, New York....
  
  " w. Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke was an American songwriter.Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians...
  
   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...
  
   & Maurice Abrahams
  Maurice Abrahams
  Maurice Abrahams was a successful American songwriter in the early years of the 20th century.Popular songs co-written by Abrahams included "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under " ....
  
  
• "The Ragtime Drummer" James I. Lent
• "The Ragtime Jockey 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...
  
  
• "Ragtime Mocking Bird" 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 Soldier 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...
  
  
• "Roll Dem Roly Boly Eyes" w.m. Eddie Leonard
  Eddie Leonard
  Eddie Leonard , born Lemuel Golden Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were still acceptable as entertainment. He performed in vaudeville for 45 years before that medium faded in the 1920s, and was known for such...
  
  
• "The Rose of Tralee
  The Rose of Tralee (song)
  "The Rose of Tralee" is a nineteenth century Irish ballad about a woman called Mary, who because of her beauty was called The Rose of Tralee. The Rose of Tralee festival had been inspired by the ballad.The words of the song are credited to C...
  
  " w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover
• "Row Row Row" 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. James V. Monaco
• "She Pushed Me Into The Parlour" w. Alf Ellerton m. Will Mayne
• "Slippery Elm Rag" m. Clarence Woods
• "Sly Musette" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "The Society Bear" 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...
  
  
• "Some Boy" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper was an American songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation...
  
  
• "Somebody's Coming To Town From Dixie" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Henry Clay Smith
• "The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi
  Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
  Often called the most beloved and popular of college fraternity songs, "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" was written in 1911 by Byron D. Stokes and F. Dudleigh Vernor...
  
  " w. Byron D. Stokes m. F. Dudleigh Vernor
• "Sympathy" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
  
• "Take A Little Tip From Father" 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 Back" 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...
  
  
• "Take Me To That Swanee Shore" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man and eventually established himself as one of the leading songwriters on Tin Pan Alley.Gilbert began his career touring with John L...
  
   m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Take Me To The Cabaret" w.m. Will Dillon
• "Teasing Moon" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry Marshall
• "That Dixie Dip Rag" m. Dippy Dip
• "That Eccentric Rag" m. J. Russel Robinson
• "That Kentucky Rag" w. Boyle Woolfolk m. Hampton Durand
• "That Old Girl Of Mine" w. Earle C. Jones 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...
  
  
• "That Syncopated Boogie Boo" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "That's How I Need You" w. Joe McCarthy & Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
• "There's One In A Million Like You" w. Grant Clarke 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...
  
  
• "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man and eventually established himself as one of the leading songwriters on Tin Pan Alley.Gilbert began his career touring with John L...
  
   m. Lewis F. Muir
• "'Way Down South" w.m. George Fairman
• "The Wedding Glide" w.m. Louis Hirsch
• "A Wee Hoose 'Mang The Heather" w.m Gilbert Wells, Fred Elton & 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 Get You Alone Tonight" w.m. Joseph McCarthy, Joe Goodwin & 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...
  
  
• "When I Lost You" 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 Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" is a lighthearted song in tribute to Ireland. Its lyrics were written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr., set to music composed by Ernest Ball, for Olcott's production of The Isle O' Dreams, and Olcott sang the song in the show...
  
  " w. Chauncey Olcott & 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....
  
  
• "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor
• "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam" 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 Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo" w.m. Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse was an American composer of popular songs.Born in Washington D.C., Morse was educated at the Maryland Military & Naval Academy. He went on to study both violin and piano. He and his wife, Theodora Morse, became a successful songwriting team for Tin Pan Alley...
  
  
• "Yiddisha Professor" 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're My Baby" w. A Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer

Popular Recordings

• "The Herd Girl's Dream" by George Stehl, Marshall P. Lufsky, & Paul Surth, Columbia
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
• "Everybody Two Step" by 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...
  
  , Edison
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
• "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....
  
  " by 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:...
  
  , Victor
  Victor Talking Machine Company
  The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....
  
  

Classical music

• Alban Berg
  Alban Berg
  Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
  
   - Five Orchestral Songs on Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg
• 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...
  
   - Piano Quintet
• Ferruccio Busoni
  Ferruccio Busoni
  Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
  
   - Sonatina No. 2
• 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...
  
   - A Shropshire Lad
  A Shropshire Lad
  A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman . Some of the better-known poems in the book are "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty".The collection was published in 1896...
  
  
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   - Gigues; Khamma (ballet); Preludes
  Preludes (Debussy)
  Claude Debussy's Préludes are two sets of pieces for solo piano. They are divided into two separate livres, or books, of twelve preludes each. Unlike previous collections of preludes, like those of JS Bach and Chopin, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of key signatures.Each book was written...
  
  , Book 2
• 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...
  
   - The Song of the High Hills; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is a tone poem composed in 1912 by Frederick Delius; it was first performed in Leipzig on October 2, 1913....
  
  
• Paul Dukas
  Paul Dukas
  Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
  
   - La Peri (ballet)
• Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
   - The Music Makers
• Victor Ewald
  Victor Ewald
  -Biography:Victor Ewald , was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. Ewald was a professor of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg, and was also the cellist with the Beliaeff Quartet for sixteen years. This was the...
  
   - Brass Quintet No. 1
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   - Finnish Sketches
• Percy Grainger
  Percy Grainger
  George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...
  
   - Handel in the Strand
• 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"...
  
   - Robert Browning Overture
• Leoš Janáček
  Leoš Janácek
  Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
  
   - The Fiddler's Child
• 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...
  
   - Violin Concerto
• Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
  
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in Db Major
    Piano Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)
    Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10 in 1911 and finished it in 1912. A one-movement concerto, it is the shortest of his five complete piano concertos, lasting only around a quarter of an hour.- Structure :...
    
    
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
    Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)
    Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 in 1912 and completed it in 1913. Performing as solo pianist, he premiered the work on August 23 the same year at Pavlovsk. Most of the audience reacted intensely...
    
    
• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   - Daphnis et Chloë
  Daphnis et Chloé
  Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie choréographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an eponymous romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from around the 2nd century AD...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Pierrot Lunaire
  Pierrot Lunaire
  Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds 'Pierrot lunaire' , commonly known simply as Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 , is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg...
  
  
• Cyril Scott
  Cyril Scott
  Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, and poet.-Biography:Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott , an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to...
  
   - Two Passacaglias
• 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...
  
   - Ariadne auf Naxos
  Ariadne auf Naxos
  Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Bringing together slapstick comedy and consuming beautiful music, the opera's theme is the competition between high and low art for the public's attention.- First version :The opera was originally...
  
  , 1st version
• Marcel Tournier
  Marcel Tournier
  Marcel Lucien Tournier was a French harpist, composer, and pedagogue who composed important solo repertory for the harp that expanded the technical and harmonic possibilities of the instrument. His works are regularly performed in concert and recorded by professional harpists, and they are often...
  
   - Promenade a l'automne
• Louis Vierne
  Louis Vierne
  Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
  
   - Symphony for Organ No. 3 in F# minor

Opera

• Walter Damrosch - The Dove of Peace
• Guy Ropartz - Le Pays
  Le Pays
  Le Pays is a three act opera by Guy Ropartz with a libretto by Charles Le Goffic. It was composed between 1908 and 1910 and was premiered in 1912 at Nancy...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Ariadne auf Naxos
  Ariadne auf Naxos
  Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Bringing together slapstick comedy and consuming beautiful music, the opera's theme is the competition between high and low art for the public's attention.- First version :The opera was originally...
  
  
• Franz Schreker
  Franz Schreker
  Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...
  
   - Der ferne Klang, libretto by the composer

Musical theater

• 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....
  
  Broadway 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 September 16 and ran for 120 performances.
• The Firefly
  The Firefly (operetta)
  The Firefly is the first operetta written by composer Rudolf Friml, with a libretto by Otto Harbach. The story concerns a young girl, who is a street singer. She disguises herself and serves as a cabin boy on a ship to Bermuda, where she falls in love...
  
  , 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 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 December 2 and ran for 120 performances
• Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway
  Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
  Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. The play's title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway....
  
  Broadway revival opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on March 14 and ran for 36 performances.
• Gypsy Love 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 June 1 and ran for 299 performances.
• Hullo, Ragtime Opened at the London Hippodrome on December 23 and ran for 451 performances.
• The Lady of the Slipper Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 28 and ran for 232 performances. Starring Elsie Janis
  Elsie Janis
  Elsie Janis was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" .-Early career:...
  
  , Montgomery and Stone, James Reaney
  James Reaney
  James Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...
  
  , Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood was an American actress of stage, film and television.-Early career:She was born Mary Margaret Wood in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator. She was a direct descendant of Daniel Boone...
  
   and Vernon Castle.
• 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...
  
  ) - Vienna production
• Mama's Baby Boy (Music: Hans Linne Book & Lyrics: Junie McCree) Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 25 and ran for 9 performances
• Oh! Oh! Delphine! 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 September 30 and ran for 248 performances
• Over the River (Words & Music: John Golden) Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on January 8 and ran for 120 performances. Starring Eddie Foy
  Eddie Foy
  Eddie Foy, Sr. , was an actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.-Early years:...
  
  , Lillian Lorraine
  Lillian Lorraine
  Lillian Lorraine was a stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for her beauty and for being perhaps the most famous Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s....
  
  , Mae Busch
  Mae Busch
  Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.-Early life and career:Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was...
  
  , Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood was an American actress of stage, film and television.-Early career:She was born Mary Margaret Wood in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator. She was a direct descendant of Daniel Boone...
  
   and Maurice and Walton.
• The Pink Lady London production opened at the Globe Theatre on April 11 and ran for 124 performances
• Under Many Flags Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome on August 31 and ran for 445 performances
• The Wall Street Girl Broadway production opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on April 15 and ran for 56 performances
• The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1912
  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
  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...
  
   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 Moulin Rouge Theatre on October 21 and ran for 88 performances

Births

• January 8 - Arkady Filippenko
  Arkady Filippenko
  Arkady Dmitriyevich Filippenko was a Soviet Ukrainian composer.- Biography :He was born in the small village of Pushcha-Vodycia, now a suburb of Kyiv . As a pre-schooler, he spent a great deal of time outdoors with his grandfather, a shepherd who played and made pastoral pipes akin to those of...
  
  , composer (d. 1983)
• January 11 - Emiliano Zuleta
  Emiliano Zuleta
  Emiliano Zuleta Baquero was a Colombian vallenato composer, accordion player and singer, popularly known as El viejo Mile . Zuleta was born on January 11, 1912 in La Jagua del Pilar, a small town of la Guajira; He died on October 30, 2005 in Valledupar from respiratory problems...
  
  , vallenato composer, accordion player and singer (d. 2005)
• February 2 - Burton Lane
  Burton Lane
  Burton Lane was an American composer and lyricist. His most popular and successful work is the musical Finian's Rainbow, "the score for which Lane will always be most remembered."-Biography:...
  
  , US composer (d. 1997)
• February 3 - Mary Carlisle
  Mary Carlisle
  Mary Carlisle was an American actress and singer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was a star of Hollywood films in the 1930s, having been one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" in 1932. The archetypal blonde, Mary Carlisle was brought to Hollywood at the age of four by her...
  
  , actress and singer
• February 11 - Rudolf Firkusny
  Rudolf Firkusny
  - Life :Born in Moravian Napajedla, Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in...
  
  , pianist (d. 1994)
• February 19 - Saul Chaplin
  Saul Chaplin
  Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley...
  
  , film score composer and arranger (d. 1997)
• February 27 - Eliška Kleinová
  Eliška Kleinová
  Eliška Kleinová, born Elisabeth "Lisa" Klein was a Czech Jewish pianist, music educator, and was the sister of Gideon Klein....
  
  , pianist and music teacher (d. 1999)
• March 11 - Xavier Montsalvatge
  Xavier Montsalvatge
  Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols was a Spanish Catalan composer and music critic. He was one of the most influential music figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the 20th century.-Life:...
  
  , composer and music critic (d. 2002)
• March 14 - Les Brown
  Les Brown (bandleader)
  Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils that Brown led while a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences...
  
  , US bandleader (d. 2001)
• March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins
  Lightnin' Hopkins
  Sam John Hopkins better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas...
  
  , blues musician (d. 1982)
• March 24 - Sari Biro
  Sari Biro
  Sari Biro was a Hungarian pianist."I believe that a performer must be a clear channel for the composer's message and not allow his or her own personality to interfere with the composer's intentions... A performer should extend, not absorb." Sari Biro was born in Budapest in Hungary...
  
  , pianist (d. 1990)
• March 27 - Robert Hughes
  Robert Hughes (composer)
  Robert Watson Hughes AO MBE was a Scottish-born Australian composer. His music was characterised as muscular, assertive, pugnacious, with a dark, troubled, even driven quality; but it was also deeply sensitive, lyrical and tender. His capacity to view a complex landscape of diverse musical...
  
  , composer (d. 2007)
• April 2 - Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers
  Mills Brothers
  The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed as The Four Mills Brothers, were an American jazz and pop vocal quartet of the 20th century who made more than 2,000 recordings that combined sold more than 50 million copies, and garnered at least three dozen gold records...
  
   singing quartet (d. 1989)
• April 7 – Jack Lawrence
  Jack Lawrence
  Jack Lawrence was an American songwriter. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.- Biography :...
  
  , American composer (d. 2009)
• April 5 - Carlos Guastavino
  Carlos Guastavino
  Carlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer.Carlos Guastavino was born in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. He studied music in Santa Fe with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei, and in Buenos Aires with Athos Palma...
  
  , composer (d. 2000)
• April 17 - Marta Eggerth
  Marta Eggerth
  Marta Eggerth is a singer/actress from "The Silver Age of Operetta". Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus, and Paul Abraham, composed works especially for her...
  
  , singer and actress
• April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier
  Kathleen Ferrier
  Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE was an English contralto who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar...
  
  , contralto (d. 1953)
• April 24 - Renato Cellini
  Renato Cellini
  Renato Cellini was a celebrated Italian opera conductor. His father was Enzio Cellini, who was a stage director who worked with Arturo Toscanini.- Metropolitan Opera :...
  
  , conductor (d. 1967)
• May 3 – Virgil Fox
  Virgil Fox
  Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach. These events appealed to audiences in the 1970s who were more familiar with rock 'n' roll music and were staged complete with light shows...
  
  , organist (d. 1980)
• May 10 - Adrian Aeschbacher
  Adrian Aeschbacher
  Adrian Aeschbacher was a Swiss classical pianist.His father was Carl Aeschbacher. His youth was spent at Trogen where his father was professor of piano at the Conservatoire, and his father was his instructor from the age of four to sixteen. His teachers were Emil Frey and Volkmar Andreae...
  
  , pianist (d. 2002)
• May 13 - Gil Evans
  Gil Evans
  Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
  
  , jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1988)
• May 18 - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  , singer (d. 2001)
• May 23 - Jean Françaix
  Jean Françaix
  Jean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.-Life:...
  
  , composer (d. 1997)
• May 31 - Alfred Deller
  Alfred Deller
  Alfred George Deller CBE , was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century....
  
  , singer (d. 1979)
• June 6 - Robert Levin
  Robert Levin (Norwegian pianist)
  Robert Levin was a Norwegian classical pianist and composer. Although he was an accomplished solo pianist and composer in his own right, Levin received international acclaim for his work as an accompanist with several of the world's most celebrated vocal and instrumental...
  
  , pianist (d. 1996)
• June 9 - Edgar Evans, operatic tenor (d. 2007)
• June 17 - Don Gillis, conductor and composer (d. 1978))
• June 28 - Eleazar de Carvalho
  Eleazar de Carvalho
  Eleazar de Carvalho was a Brazilian conductor and composer.-Biography:De Carvalho's parents were Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho and Dalila Mendonça...
  
  , conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• July 4 - Fritz Schulz-Reichel
  Fritz Schulz-Reichel
  Fritz Schulz-Reichel was a German jazz and pop pianist.Schulz-Reichel's father was a classical musician, and he began playing piano at the age of six...
  
  , jazz pianist (d. 1990)
• July 5
  • Mack David
    Mack David
    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...
    
    , songwriter (d. 1993)
  • Ilona Massey
    Ilona Massey
    Ilona Massey was a film, stage and radio performer.-Early life and career:...
    
    , actress and singer (d. 1974)
• July 14 - Woody Guthrie
  Woody Guthrie
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
  
  , folk singer (d. 1967)
• July 17 - Irene Manning
  Irene Manning
  Irene Manning was an actress/singer.She was born Inez Harvuot in Cincinnati, Ohio in a family of five siblings. Her family loved to go on outdoor picnics where the featured activity was group singing. This family environment helped Irene to develop a keen interest in singing at a very early age...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 2004)
• July 27 - Igor Markevitch
  Igor Markevitch
  Igor Markevitch was a Ukrainian, Italian, and French composer and conductor.- Origin :Igor Markevich was born in Kiev, to an old family of Ukrainian Cossack starshyna ennobled in the 18th century...
  
  , composer (d. 1983)
• August 9 - Anne Brown
  Anne Brown
  Anne Wiggins Brown was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio and concert singer...
  
  , US soprano, first Bess in Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...
  
  (d. 2009)
• August 13 - Francesco Albanese
  Francesco Albanese
  Francesco Albanese was a lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory....
  
  , operatic tenor (d. 2005)
• August 21 - Natalia Dudinskaya
  Natalia Dudinskaya
  Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya was a Russian prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet in the 1930s and 1940s.Dudinskaya's mother was Natalia Tagliori, a ballerina coached by Enrico Cecchetti. Trained by Agrippina Vaganova, Dudinskaya matriculated from her school in 1931. She danced all the...
  
  , ballerina (d. 2003)
• August 23 - Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
  , dancer, singer and actor (d. 1996)
• September 5 - John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
  , composer (d. 1992)
• September 19 - Kurt Sanderling
  Kurt Sanderling
  Kurt Sanderling, CBE was a German conductor.-Biography:Kurt Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire to Jewish parents. After early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra...
  
  , conductor
• September 26 - René Hall
  René Hall
  René Hall , was an American guitarist and music arranger.He was born in Morgan City, Louisiana, and first recorded as a banjo player with Joseph Robichaux in New Orleans in 1933. He then worked around the country as a member of the Ernie Fields Orchestra, before joining Earl Hines as musical arranger...
  
  , guitarist and arranger (d. 1988)
• September 30 - Kenny Baker, singer and actor (d. 1985)
• October 7 - Joseph Cooper
  Joseph Cooper
  Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper, OBE , pianist and broadcaster, best known as the chairman of the BBC's long-running television panel game Face the Music.- Early career :...
  
  , pianist and broadcaster (d. 2001)
• October 15 - Nellie Lutcher
  Nellie Lutcher
  Nellie Lutcher was an African-American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who gained prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s...
  
  , jazz singer and pianist (d. 2007)
• October 21
  • Don Byas
    Don Byas
    Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, long-resident in Europe.- Oklahoma and Los Angeles :...
    
    , jazz musician (d. 1972)
  • Sir Georg Solti
    Georg Solti
    Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
    
    , conductor (d. 1997)
• October 24 - Peter Gellhorn
  Peter Gellhorn
  Peter Gellhorn was a German conductor, composer, pianist and teacher who settled in London and made a career in Britain that lasted unbroken until his death....
  
  , pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2004)
• October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow
  Conlon Nancarrow
  Conlon Nancarrow was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano...
  
  , composer (d. 1997)
• November 4 – Vadim Salmanov
  Vadim Salmanov
  The composer Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov is perhaps best known for his Symphony No...
  
  , Russian composer (d. 1978)
• November 6 - King Kolax
  King Kolax
  King Kolax was a United States jazz trumpeter.-Biography:...
  
  , jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
• November 11 - Larry LaPrise
  Larry LaPrise
  Larry LaPrise at one point held the U.S. copyright for the song Hokey Pokey....
  
  , creator of the "Hokey-Pokey" or "Hokey-Cokey" song and dance (d. 1996)
• November 18 - Jimmy Swan
  Jimmy Swan
  Jimmy Swan was an American country musician.Swan came from a rural Alabama farming family; his father abandoned the family when Swan was very young, and he was brought up in Birmingham. His mother died in the late 1920s, and he was destitute for most of his teenage years...
  
  , country musician (d. 1995)
• November 21 - Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...
  
  , dancer (d. 1982)
• November 22 - Chick Henderson, singer (d. 1944)
• November 30 - Hugo del Carril
  Hugo del Carril
  Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...
  
  , actor and tango singer (d. 1989)
• December 7 - Daniel Jones
  Daniel Jones (composer)
  Daniel Jenkyn Jones OBE was a composer of classical music, who worked in Britain. He used both serial and tonal techniques...
  
  , composer (d. 1993)
• December 10 - Irving Fazola
  Irving Fazola
  Irving Fazola was an American jazz clarinetist.-Biography:Fazola or Faz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana as Irving Henry Prestopnik. He got the nickname Fazola from his childhood skill at Solfege . He decided to use the nickname as his family name, and many fellow musicians were unaware that...
  
  , jazz clarinetist (d. 1949)
• December 13 - Luiz Gonzaga
  Luiz Gonzaga
  Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco , he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country...
  
  , folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
• December 23 - Josef Greindl
  Josef Greindl
  Josef Greindl was a German operatic bass.Josef Greindl was born in Munich and studied at the Munich Music Academy with Paul Bender. His opera debut was in 1936, as Hunding in Wagner's Die Walküre in the State Theatre in Krefeld. He is remembered mainly for his performances in Wagner at Bayreuth,...
  
  , operatic bass (d. 1993)
• December 25 - Natalino Otto
  Natalino Otto
  Natalino Otto, stage name of Natale Codognotto was an Italian singer. He started the swing genre in Italy.-Early years:Natalino Otto was born at Cogoleto, province of Genoa, in northern Italy....
  
  , Italian singer (d. 1969)
• December 28 - Yuri Levitin
  Yuri Levitin
  Yuri Abramovitch Levitin was a Soviet Ukrainian composer of classical music.-Early life:...
  
  , Ukrainian composer (d. 1993)
• December 30 - Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario.-Career:...
  
  , actress, singer and dancer (d. 1997)
• date unknown
  • Buddy Feyne
    Buddy Feyne
    Buddy Feyne was an American composer and lyricist of the swing era.He penned the lyrics for the standards "Tuxedo Junction" and "Jersey Bounce"...
    
    , lyricist and composer (d. 1998)
  • Niyazi
    Niyazi
    Niyazi Zulfigar oglu Tagizade Hajibeyov was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani musical conductor, composer, author of the famous "Rast" symphonic mugam.-Early life:...
    
    , conductor and composer (d. 1984)
  • William Vacchiano
    William Vacchiano
    William Vacchiano was a trumpeter and trumpet instructor.Originally from Portland, Maine, Vacchiano studied trumpet at age 12. At 14 years old, he was playing in the Portland Symphony. Later he performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for 38 years and taught at the Juilliard School for...
    
    , trumpeter (d. 2005)
• probable - Merline Johnson
  Merline Johnson
  Merline Johnson was an African American blues singer in the 1930s and 1940s, billed as The Yas Yas Girl.Little is known of her life, but she is thought to have been born in Mississippi. She was the aunt of rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker. She first recorded in Chicago in 1937, on songs...
  
  , blues singer

Deaths

• January 30 - Florence St. John
  Florence St. John
  Florence St. John , was an English singer and actress of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras famous for her roles in operetta, musical burlesque, music hall, opera and, later, comic plays.-Life and career:...
  
  , singer and actress (b. 1855)
• March 1 - George Grossmith
  George Grossmith
  George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades...
  
  , Operetta
  Operetta
  Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
  
   comic singer
• March 17 - Domenico Mustafà
  Domenico Mustafa
  Domenico Mustafà was an Italian castrato singer, composer and choir director. He was born in the comune of Sellano, province of Perugia....
  
  , castrato singer and composer (b. 1829)
• March 30 - Lina Ramann
  Lina Ramann
  Lina Ramann was a German writer and teacher known for her books on the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt...
  
  , biographer of Liszt (b. 1883)
• April 15 - Wallace Hartley
  Wallace Hartley
  Wallace Henry Hartley was an English violinist and bandleader on the on its maiden voyage. He became famous for leading the eight member band as the ship sank on 15 April 1912. He died in the sinking.-Life and career:...
  
  , violinist and leader of the band on RMS Titanic.
• April 30 - František Kmoch
  František Kmoch
  František Kmoch was a Czech composer and conductor.- Life and career :František Kmoch was born in Zásmuky, near Kolín, Bohemia. His father was a tailor and a clarinetist who performed folk music...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1848)
• June 6 - Giulio Ricordi
  Giulio Ricordi
  Giulio Ricordi was an Italian editor and musician.-Biography:Ricordi was born in Milan, where he also died....
  
  , music publisher (b. 1840)
• July 21 - Antonio Magini-Coletti
  Antonio Magini-Coletti
  Antonio Magini-Coletti was a leading Italian baritone who had a prolific career in Europe and the United States during the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. A versatile artist, he appeared in several opera world premieres but was particularly associated with the works of...
  
  , operatic baritone (b. 1855)
• August 13 - 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...
  
  , composer (b. 1842)
• August 14 - Marion Hood
  Marion Hood
  Marion Hood was an English soprano who performed in opera and musical theatre in the last decades of the 19th century...
  
  , singer (b. 1854)
• August 30 - Eleanora Ehrenbergů
  Eleanora Ehrenbergů
  Eleanora Ehrenbergů was a Czech operatic soprano. In 1854 she made her professional opera debut at the Estates Theatre in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1832)
• September 1 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".-Early life and education:...
  
  , composer (b. 1875)
• October 1 - Frances Allitsen
  Frances Allitsen
  Mary Frances Allitsen was an English composer. One of her most popular songs is a setting of Psalm 27, The Lord is My Light.Her real name was Mary Bumpus, according to the .-External links:*...
  
  , composer (b. 1848)
• October 15 - Max Spicker
  Max Spicker
  Max Spicker was a German Jewish musician, composer and conductor. He was born in Königsberg, Prussia. He studied with Louis Köhler for 5 years, and then attended Leipzig Conservatory from 1877-9....
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1858)
• October 19 - Richard Temple, opera singer (b. 1847)
• October 24 - Mykola Lysenko
  Mykola Lysenko
  Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...
  
  , pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1842)
• October 30 - Jan Gall
  Jan Gall
  Jan Karol Gall was a Polish vocal composer and music teacher.Gall was born in Warsaw, and studied under Franz Krenn in Vienna, Josef Rheinberger in Munich, and Francesco Lamperti in Milan...
  
  , composer and music teacher (b. 1856)
• November 10 - Riccardo Antoniazzi
  Riccardo Antoniazzi
  Riccardo Antoniazzi , Italian violin maker, the sixth child and pupil of Gaetano , was the ablest and most consistent violin maker of his family. Unfortunately he lived somewhat in the shadow of Leandro Bisiach and he did not sign many of the instruments from his best period...
  
  , violin maker (b. 1853)
• December 15 - Franz Simandl
  Franz Simandl
  Franz Simandl was a double-bassist and pedagogue most remembered for his book New Method for the Double Bass, known as the Simandl book, which is to this day used as a standard study of double bass technique and hand positions.His approach uses the first, second, and fourth fingers of the left...
  
  , double bassist
• date unknown
  • Eduardo Corrochio
    Eduardo Corrochio
    Eduardo Corrochio was a Spanish-born dancer who won the first Tap Dancing Championship in New York City in 1890.-Early life:Eduardo Corrochio was born in Spain in 1869, the only son of Miguel and Regina Corrochio. His mother Regina was half English, having been fathered by a British Colonel. His...
    
    , tap dancer (b. 1869)
  • Harald Scharff
    Harald Scharff
    Harald Scharff was a ballet dancer associated with the Royal Danish Theatre in the middle nineteenth century who succeeded August Bournonville as the Danish ballet's principal male dancer upon the latter's retirement from the stage...
    
    , ballet dancer (b. 1838)
  • Emma Seehofer
    Emma Seehofer
    Emma Seehofer was a German operatic contralto who was a principal artist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1854 to 1887. She created the roles of Erda in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold on 22 September 1869 and Schwertleite in Wagner's Die Walküre on 26 June 1869. She was also highly...
    
    , operatic contralto