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• October 15 - In Rovigo
  Rovigo
  Rovigo is a town and comune in the Veneto region of North-Eastern Italy, the capital of the eponymous province. -Geography:...
  
  , Beniamino Gigli
  Beniamino Gigli
  Beniamino Gigli was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism...
  
   makes his 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...
  
  tic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli
  Amilcare Ponchielli
  Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas.-Biography:Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.Two years...
  
  's La Gioconda
  La Gioconda (opera)
  La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835...
  
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• The first recorded calypso music
  Calypso music
  Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...
  
   is made in Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
  
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• First publication of Orchestration, the classic book by Cecil Forsyth
  Cecil Forsyth
  Cecil Forsyth was an English composer and musicologist. He was born in Greenwich on November 30, 1870, and he died in New York on December 7, 1941. He studied at Edinburgh University and at the Royal College of Music , and played viola in various London Orchestras...
  
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Published popular music

• "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" w.m. 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...
  
   & Walter Donovan. Performed in the 1951
  1951 in music
  -Events:*January 29 – Nilla Pizzi wins the first annual Sanremo Music Festival with "Grazie dei fiori".*February – The first complete performance of Charles Ives's Second Symphony is given in Carnegie Hall by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.*March – Alan...
  
   film Two Weeks with Love
  Two Weeks with Love
  Two Weeks with Love is a 1950 romantic musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Roy Rowland, based on story by John Larkin who co-wrote the screenplay with Dorothy Kingsley.Set in the early 1900s, the film focuses on the Robinson family...
  
  by Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...
  
   and Carleton Carpenter
  Carleton Carpenter
  Carleton Carpenter is an American movie/television/stage actor, a magician, author and songwriter....
  
  
• "After The Roses Have Faded Away" w. Bessie Buchanan 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....
  
  
• "Along Came Ruth" 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...
  
  
• "Always Treat Her Like A Baby" 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...
  
  
• "Back To The Carolina You Love" 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. 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...
  
  
• "Burlington Bertie From Bow" w.m. William Hargreaves
• "By Heck" 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. S. R. Henry
• "By The Beautiful Sea" w. Harold R. Atteridge
  Harold R. Atteridge
  Harold Richard Atteridge was a composer, librettist and lyricist primarily for musicals and revues. He wrote the book and lyrics for over 20 musicals and revues for the Shuberts, including several iterations of The Passing Show....
  
   m. Harry Carroll
  Harry Carroll
  Harry Carroll, a famous American songwriter, pianist and composer, was born on November 28, 1892, in Atlantic City, New Jersey and died December 26, 1962, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. He taught himself how to play the piano and began playing in movie houses before he finished grade school...
  
  
• "By The Waters Of Minnetonka" w. J. M. Cavanass m. Thurlow Lieurance
• "California And You" Harry Puck
• "Can't You Hear Me Callin' Caroline?" w.m. William H. Gardner & Caro Roma
• "Cecile Waltz" by Frank McKee
  Frank McKee
  Francis Joseph "Frank" McKee was a Scottish professional association football player. He played for Birmingham City and Gillingham between 1948 and 1955. His grandson Jaimes McKee is also a footballer, playing for Hong Kong club TSW Pegasus.-References:...
  
  
• "Chinatown, My Chinatown
  Chinatown, My Chinatown
  "Chinatown, My Chinatown" is a popular song written by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz in 1910.Jerome and Schwartz incorporated Chinese musical forms into Western music for the melody...
  
  " w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Colonel Bogey - March
  Colonel Bogey March
  The "Colonel Bogey March" is a popular march that was written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts , a British army bandmaster who later became director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth...
  
  " m. Kenneth J. Alford
• "Come Over To Dover" Murphy, Botsford
• "La Cucaracha
  La Cucaracha
  "La Cucaracha" is a traditional Spanish folk corrido that became popular in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. It has additionally become a verse played on car horns.-Origins:...
  
  " w. (Eng) Stanley Adams m. arr. Juan Y. D'Lorah
• "The Darktown Poker Club" w. Jean C. Havez m. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
   & Will H. Vodery
• "The Day Is Done" w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
  
   m. Herman Lohr
• "Desecration Rag" Felix Arndt
• "Down Among The Sheltering Palms
  Down Among the Sheltering Palms
  "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" is a popular song.The music was written by Abe Olman, the lyrics by James Brockman and Leo Wood. The song was published in 1914....
  
  " w. James Brockman m. Abe Olman
• "La Estrellita" m. Maurice Ponce
• "Everybody Rag With Me" w. Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   m. Grace LeBoy
• "Fido Is A Hot Dog Now" w. Charles McCarron
  Charles McCarron
  Charles McCarron was a United States Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. McCarron is credited on such numbers as "Fido Is a Hot Dog Now", and "Eve Wasn't Modest 'till She Ate that Apple"...
  
   & Thomas J. Gray m. Raymond Walker
• "Follow The Crowd
  Follow the Crowd (song)
  Follow the Crowd is a song composed by Irving Berlin for the 1914 musical The Queen of the Movies....
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "Gilbert, The Filbert" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herman Finck
• "Goodbye Girls I'm Through" w. John Golden m. Ivan Caryll
  Ivan Caryll
  Félix Marie Henri Tilkin , better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language...
  
  
• "He's A Devil In His Own Home Town" w. Grant Clarke & Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. 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...
  
  
• "He's A Rag Picker" 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...
  
  

• "Hot House Rag" m. Paul Pratt
• "I Love the Ladies" by 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...
  
  
• "I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm
  I Want To Go Back To Michigan
  I Want to Go Back to Michigan is a song by Irving Berlin composed in 1914. It was a moderate commercial success when it was first released and afterward became a staple on vaudeville...
  
  " 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 Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You" w. Clifford Harris m. James W. Tate
  James W. Tate
  James William Tate was a songwriter, accompanist, and composer and producer of revues and pantomimes in the early years of the 20th century...
  
  
• "If I Had 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...
  
  
• "If That's Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "If You Don't Want My Peaches" 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'll Make A Man Of You" w.m. Arthur Wimperis & Herman Finck
• "I'm Goin' Back To Louisiana (Where The Bright Moon Shines)" E. Clinton Keithley
• "In An Old-Fashioned Town" w.m. Squire
• "In Siam" Manuel Klein
• "In The Candlelight" w.m. Fleta Jan Brown
• "Katyusha's song
  Katyusha's song
  The is a Japanese song, which was highly popular in early 20th century Japan. It was composed in the major pentatonic scale by Shinpei Nakayama. It was sung by Matsui Sumako in a dramatization of Tolstoy's Resurrection, put on in 1914 in Tokyo. The song was a huge hit, selling a large number of...
  
  " composed by Nakayama Shimpei is the first big kayōkyoku
  Kayokyoku
  is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. The Japan Times describes kayōkyoku as "standard Japanese pop" or "Showa era pop".Kayōkyoku is Western-style-inspired music of Japan. Music in this genre is extremely varied as a result...
  
   (pop music) hit in Japan
• "Keep the Home Fires Burning" w. Lena Guilbert Ford m. Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
  
  
• "Land" by 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...
  
  
• "A Little Bit Of Heaven Sure They Call It Ireland" w. J. Keirn Brennan
  J. Keirn Brennan
  J. Keirn Brennan was an American songwriter. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914 and collaborated with many notable songwriters...
  
   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....
  
  
• "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by Byron Gay & C.R. Foster
• "Love's Own Sweet Song" w. C. C. S. Cushing & E. P. Heath m. Emmerich Kalman
• "The Minstrel Parade" 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...
  
  
• "Missouri Waltz
  Missouri Waltz
  Missouri Waltz is the official state song of Missouri and is associated with the University of Missouri.-History of the song:The "Missouri Waltz," which had essentially been a minstrel song, became the state song under an act adopted by the General Assembly on June 30, 1949...
  
  " w. James Royce Shannon m. Frederick Knight Logan
• "Mrs. Sippi, You're A Grand Old Girl" Belle Ashlyn
• "Music Box Rag" Charles Luckeyth Roberts
• "My Bird Of Paradise" 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...
  
  
• "My Croony Melody" w.m. Joe Goodwin & E. Ray Goetz
• "On The 5:15" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
• "On The Good Ship Mary Ann" w. Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   m. Grace Le Boy
• "On The Shores Of Italy" w.m. Al Piantadosi, Dave Oppenheim & Jack Glogau
• "Pigeon Walk" m. James V. Monaco
• "Play a Simple Melody
  Play a Simple Melody
  "Play a Simple Melody" is a song from the 1914 musical, Watch Your Step, words and music by Irving Berlin. The show was the first stage musical that Berlin wrote. It ran for 175 performances New Amsterdam Theater in New York City...
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "Poor Pauline" w. Charles McCarron m. Raymond Walker
• "Revival Day" Berlin
• "Roll Them Cotton Bales" w. James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Rufus Johnson's Harmony Band" 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...
  
   & 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 " ....
  
  
• "Same Sort Of Girl" w. Harry B. Smith
  Harry B. Smith
  Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
  
   m. Jerome Kern
  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
  
  
• "Settle Down In A One-Horse Town" 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...
  
  
• "Shadowland" w. Blanche Merrill 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:...
  
  
• "She's Dancing Her Heart Away" 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. Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
  
  
• "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers" w. R. P. Weston
  R. P. Weston
  Robert Patrick Weston was an English songwriter. He was born and died in London. Among other songs, he co-authored , "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm", a macabre little ditty about the ghost of Anne Boleyn haunting the Tower of London, seeking revenge on Henry VIII for having her...
  
   m. Herman E. Darewski
• "The Springtime Of Life" w. Robert B. Smith
  Robert Bache Smith
  Robert Bache Smith , usually published as Robert B. Smith, was an American librettist and lyricist. His older brother, Harry B. Smith, was also a successful lyricist and a writer and composer....
  
   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...
  
  
• "St. Louis Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
  W. C. Handy
  William Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
  
  
• "Stay Down Here Where You Belong
  Stay Down Here Where You Belong
  "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" was a pacifist song written by Irving Berlin in 1914. The lyrics depict a conversation between the devil and his son, the devil exhorting him to "stay down here where you belong" because people on Earth do not know right from wrong.While Henry Burr's recording of...
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "Sylvia" w. Clinton Scollard
  Clinton Scollard
  Clinton Scollard was a prolific American poet and occasional writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College, and collaborator and husband of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse.- Professional career :...
  
   m. Oley Speaks
  Oley Speaks
  Oley Speaks was an accomplished composer and songwriter who was born in Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio...
  
  
• "Syncopated Walk" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "That's a Plenty
  That's a Plenty (song)
  "That's a Plenty" is a 1914 ragtime piano piece composed by Lew Pollack. Lyrics by Ray Gilbert were added later to turn the ragtime piece into a vocal song . Freddy Martin and His Orchestra recorded a version of "That's A Plenty" in 1950. Sheet music from the 1950 version featuring Freddy Martin on...
  
  " m. Lew Pollack
  Lew Pollack
  Lew Pollack was a song composer active during the 1920s and the 1930s.Pollack was born in New York. Among his best known songs are "Charmaine" and "Diane" with Ernö Rapée, "Miss Annabelle Lee", "Two Cigarettes in the Dark", "At the Codfish Ball" , and Go In and Out The Window, now a...
  
    w. Ray Gilbert
  Ray Gilbert
  Ray Gilbert was a lyricist.Gilbert is best remembered for the lyrics to the Oscar winning song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from the film Song of the South, which he wrote with Allie Wrubel in 1947.He married, in 1962, actress Janis Paige.Daughter, actress and singer Joanne Gilbert, July...
  
  
• "There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning" w. Joe McCarthy 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...
  
  
• "They Didn't Believe Me
  They Didn't Believe Me
  "They Didn't Believe Me" is a song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Herbert Reynolds.First introduced in the 1914 musical The Girl from Utah it was one of five numbers added to the show by Kern and Reynolds for its Broadway debut at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 14, 1914...
  
  " w. Herbert Reynolds m. Jerome Kern
  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
  
  
• "They're On Their Way To Mexico" 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...
  
  
• "This Is The Life" 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...
  
  
• "'Twas In September" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
• "Twelfth Street Rag
  Twelfth Street Rag
  "Twelfth Street Rag" was composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. It is one of the most famous and best-selling rags of the ragtime era. It has been recorded by many artists, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young. Bowman worked as a pianist in some of the bordellos of Kansas City...
  
  " m. Euday L. Bowman
• "Vienna, City Of My Dreams" w. (Austrian) Rudolf Sieczynski m. Rudolf Sieczynski
• "Way Out Yonder In The Golden West" w.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...
  
  
• "What Is 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...
  
  
• "When It's Night Time In Dixieland" 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 Mother Backed The Winner Of The Derby" Williams & Godfrey
• "When The Angelus Is Ringing" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "When The Grown-up Ladies Act Like Babies" w. Joe Young & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams
• "When You Wore A Tulip" w. Jack Mahoney 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...
  
  
• "When You're A Long, Long Way From Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "When You're Away" w. Henry Blossom
  Henry Blossom
  Henry Martyn Blossom was the lyricist for several Victor Herbert musicals, including The Yankee Consul , Mlle. Modiste , The Red Mill , Eileen , and Kiss Me Again , and was a master at puzzle solving and cipher writing.Born in St...
  
   m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "Who Paid The Rent For Mrs Rip Van Winkle?" Bryan, Fischer
• "The Yellow Dog Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
  W. C. Handy
  William Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
  
  
• "You Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Love" w. J. Will Callahan 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....
  
  

Popular recordings

• "Aba Daba Honeymoon
  Aba Daba Honeymoon
  Aba Daba Honeymoon is a popular song that was written and published by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan in 1914. Known through its chorus, "Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab, Said the chimpie to the monk; Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab, Said the monkey to the chimp," the first recording of Aba...
  
  " by Collins & Harlan
  Collins & Harlan
  Collins & Harlan, the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan formed a popular comic duet between 1903 and 1926. They sang ragtime standards as well as what were known as "Coon songs" - music sung by white performers in a black dialect. Their material also employed many other stereotypes of the...
  
  
• "Brindisi" from La traviata
  La traviata
  La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...
  
  , by Enrico Caruso & Alma Gluck
  Alma Gluck
  Alma Gluck was a Romanian-born American soprano, one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career .-Life and career:...
  
  
• "Ballin' the Jack
  Ballin' the Jack
  "Ballin' the Jack" is a popular song written by Jim Burris with music by Chris Smith. It introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." The song and dance were performed in For Me and My Gal, the 1942 movie starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.-Lyrics and...
  
  " by Prince's Orchestra
• "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" 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...
  
  

Classical music

• John Alden Carpenter
  John Alden Carpenter
  John Alden Carpenter was an American composer.-Biography:Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club...
  
   - Adventures in a Perambulator (ballet)
• Arthur De Greef
  Arthur De Greef
  Arthur De Greef was a Belgian pianist and composer.Born in Louvain, he won first prize in a local music composition when he was only 11, and subsequently enrolled at the Brussels Conservatoire...
  
   - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor
• 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...
  
   - Violin Sonata No. 1
• Ernő Dohnányi
  Erno Dohnányi
  Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....
  
   - Variations on a Nursery Song
• Marcel Dupré
  Marcel Dupré
  Marcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
  
   - Psyche (cantata)
• George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
   – Symphony No. 2 in A, op. 17
• Herbert Howells
  Herbert Howells
  Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...
  
   - Piano Concerto No. 1
• 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"...
  
   - Violin Sonata No. 3
• Nikolai Medtner - Sonate-Ballade op. 27
• 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...
  
   - Serenata in vano
  Serenata in vano
  Carl Nielsen's Serenata in vano, a quintet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, cello and double-bass, FS 68, was composed in 1914. It was apparently written at short notice, commissioned by Ludvig Hegner of the Royal Theatre for a tour of the Danish provinces....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
  • Sarcasms, for piano
  • The Ugly Duckling, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
• Roger Quilter
  Roger Quilter
  Roger Quilter was an English composer, known particularly for his songs.-Biography:Born in Hove, Sussex, Quilter was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, who was a noted art collector...
  
   - A Children's Overture
• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   - Piano Trio in A Minor
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
   - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart (orchestral version)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
  
   - Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony
• Anton Webern
  Anton Webern
  Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
  
   - Cello Sonata

Opera

• Rutland Boughton
  Rutland Boughton
  Rutland Boughton was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music....
  
   - The Immortal Hour
  The Immortal Hour
  The Immortal Hour is an opera by English composer Rutland Boughton. Boughton adapted his own libretto from the works of Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym of writer William Sharp....
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Cléopâtre
  Cléopâtre
  Cléopâtre is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Payen. It was first performed in at the Opéra Monte-Carlo on February 23, 1914, nearly two years after Massenet's death....
  
  
• Henri Rabaud
  Henri Rabaud
  Henri Rabaud was a French conductor and composer, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth century....
  
   - Mârouf, savetier du Caire
  Mârouf, savetier du Caire
  Mârouf, savetier du Caire is an opéra comique by the French composer Henri Rabaud. The libretto, by Lucien Nepoty, is based on a tale from the Arabian Nights. Mârouf was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 15 May 1914. The premiere was a great success and Mârouf became Rabaud's most...
  
  
• Joaquín Turina
  Joaquín Turina
  Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...
  
   - Margot
• Gabriel von Wayditch
  Gabriel von Wayditch
  Gabriel von Wayditch was a Hungarian-American composer whose output consisted primarily of 14 grand operas....
  
   - Opium Dreams
• Riccardo Zandonai
  Riccardo Zandonai
  Riccardo Zandonai was an Italian composer.-Biography:Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria–Hungary....
  
   - Francesca da Rimini
  Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)
  Francesca da Rimini is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Tito Ricordi, , after a play by Gabriele D'Annunzio. It was premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on February 19, 1914, and is still staged occasionally.This opera is Zandonai's best-known work...
  
  

Musical theater

• Adele
  Adele (musical)
  Adele is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Briquet and Adolph Philipp, original French book and lyrics by Paul Hervé, and English adaptation by Adolf Philipp and Edward A. Paulton...
  
  London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on May 30
• The Belle of Bond Street Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the theatrical producing family...
  
   on March 30 and ran for 48 performances
• Business as Usual London production opened at the Hippodrome on November 16
• Chin-Chin Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 20 and ran for 295 performances
• The Earl and the Girl
  The Earl and the Girl
  The Earl and the Girl is a musical comedy in two acts by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll. It was produced by William Greet and opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 10 December 1903. It transferred to the Lyric Theatre on 12 September 1904, running for...
  
  London revival opened at the Aldwych Theatre
  Aldwych Theatre
  The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster. The theatre was listed Grade II on 20 July 1971. Its seating capacity is 1,200.-Origins:...
  
   on November 4
• The Girl from Utah
  The Girl from Utah
  The Girl from Utah is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with music by Paul Rubens, and Sidney Jones, a book by James T. Tanner, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and Rubens. The story concerns an American girl who runs away to London to avoid becoming a wealthy Mormon's newest wife...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on August 24 and ran for 120 performances
• 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...
  
  (libretto by Emmerich von Gatti and Béla Jenbach; music by Charles Cuvillier
  Charles Cuvillier
  Charles Cuvillier was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas La reine s'amuse and with The Lilac Domino, which became a hit in 1918 in London.-Biography:Cuvillier was born in Paris, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Fauré and...
  
  ) Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre
  44th Street Theatre
  The 44th Street Theatre was a New York City Broadway theatre from 1912 to 1945 in the United States of America. It was located on Broadway, at West 44th Street. Architect was William A. Swansea. Built by the Shuberts, and first named Weber and Fields' Music Hall, its name was changed when the...
  
   on October 28 and ran for 109 performances
• Papa's Darling Broadway production
• The Pretty Mrs Smith Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on September 21 and ran for 48 performances
• Szibill
  Szibill
  Szibill is an operetta by Hungarian composer Victor Jacobi. The first performance was February 27, 1914, at the Király Színház in Budapest. The libretto was written by Ferenc Martos and Miksa Bródy...
  
  by Victor Jacobi
  Victor Jacobi
  Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor was a Hungarian operetta composer.He studied at Zeneakadémia in Budapest at the same time as the noted Hungarian composers Imre Kálmán and Albert Szirmai...
  
  , with libretto by Martos Ferenc and Miklós Bródy. First performed on February 27 in Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
  .
• Tonight's The Night Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the theatrical producing family...
  
   on December 24 and ran for 112 performances
• Wars of the World Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre
  New York Hippodrome
  The Hippodrome Theatre, also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theatre in New York City from 1905 to 1939, located on Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan. It was called the world's largest theatre by its builders and had a seating capacity of...
  
   on September 5 and ran for 229 performances
• Watch Your Step
  Watch Your Step (musical)
  Watch Your Step is a musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a book by Harry B. Smith. It was Irving Berlin's debut musical. "Play a Simple Melody" and "They Always Follow Me Around" as well as "When I Discovered You" and "The Syncopated Walk" were introduced by this...
  
  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 December 8 and ran for 175 performances
• When Claudia Smiles Broadway production opened at the 39th Street Theatre on February 2 and moved to 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 February 23 for a total run of 112 performances

Births

• February 10 - Larry Adler
  Larry Adler
  Lawrence "Larry" Cecil Adler was an American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin composed works for him...
  
  , harmonica virtuoso (d. 2001)
• February 18 - Pee Wee King
  Pee Wee King
  Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski , known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "The Tennessee Waltz"....
  
  , country musician (d. 2000)
• March 5 - Philip Farkas
  Philip Farkas
  Philip Farkas was principal hornist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many years; he left in 1960 to join the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington. He wrote The Art of French Horn Playing which is considered by many to be the seminal work for horn players...
  
  , horn player (d. 1992)
• March 6 - Kiril Kondrashin
  Kiril Kondrashin
  Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin , was a Russian conductor.-Early life:...
  
  , conductor (d. 1981)
• March 21 - Paul Tortelier
  Paul Tortelier
  Paul Tortelier was a French cellist and composer.Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots. He was encouraged to play the cello by his father Joseph and mother Marguerite , and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He studied the cello there with Gérard Hekking...
  
  , cellist and composer (d. 1990)
• March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson I
  Sonny Boy Williamson I
  Sonny Boy Williamson was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson.-Biography and career:...
  
  , blues musician (d. 1948)
• April 4 - Frances Langford
  Frances Langford
  Julia Frances Langford was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades.-Birth:...
  
  , US singer and actress (d. 2005)
• May 9 -
  • Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.-Biography:Giulini was born in Barletta, Italy, to a father born in Lombardy and a mother born in Naples; but he was raised in Bolzano, which at the time of his birth was part of Austria...
    
    , conductor (d. 2005)
  • Hank Snow
    Hank Snow
    Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
    
    , country singer (d. 1999)
• May 18 - Boris Christoff
  Boris Christoff
  Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...
  
  , operatic bass (d. 1993)
• May 26 -Ziggy Elman
  Ziggy Elman
  Harry Aaron Finkelman , better known by the stage name Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter most associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his own Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra....
  
  , US trumpet player (d. 1968)
• May 31 - Akira Ifukube
  Akira Ifukube
  was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores, perhaps best known for his work on the soundtracks of the Godzilla movies by Toho.-Biography:...
  
  , composer (d. 2006)
• June 6 - Iris du Pré
  Iris du Pré
  Iris du Pré was a pianist, composer, conductor and educator, best known as the mother of two famous musicians, Hilary, and Jacqueline....
  
  , pianist, mother of Jacqueline du Pré
  Jacqueline du Pré
  Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE was a British cellist. She is particularly associated with Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation has been described as "definitive" and "legendary." Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at 28 and led to her...
  
   and Hilary du Pré
  Hilary du Pré
  Hilary du Pré is a British flautist and memoirist best known for her co-authorship of the book A Genius in the Family and contributions to the film Hilary and Jackie, both of which relate the family story around her sister, cellist Jacqueline du Pré.Du Pré is married to conductor Christopher...
  
   (d. 1985)
• June 28 - Lester Flatt
  Lester Flatt
  Lester Raymond Flatt was a bluegrass musician and guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his membership in the Bluegrass duo The Foggy Mountain Boys, also known as "Flatt and Scruggs," with banjo picker Earl Scruggs. Flatt's career spanned multiple decades; besides his work with Scruggs, he...
  
  , bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
• July 2 - Frederick Fennell
  Frederick Fennell
  Frederick Fennell was an internationally recognized conductor, and one of the primary figures in promoting the wind ensemble as a performing group. He was also influential as a band pedagogue, and greatly affected the field of music education in the USA and abroad...
  
  , conductor (d. 2004)
• July 8 - Billy Eckstine
  Billy Eckstine
  William Clarence Eckstine was an American singer of ballads and a bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular...
  
  , jazz musician and singer (d. 1993)
• July 26
  • Erskine Hawkins
    Erskine Hawkins
    Erskine Ramsay Hawkins was an American trumpet player and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is most remembered for composing the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction" with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson...
    
    , US jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993)
  • Ralph Blane
    Ralph Blane
    Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.-Life and career:Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Blane was the son of grocery store owners. He attended Tulsa Central High School...
    
    , US composer and singer (d. 1995)
• August 28 - Abe (Glenn) Osser
  Abe (Glenn) Osser
  Abe Osser was an American musician, musical arranger, orchestra leader, and songwriter.His birthname was Abraham , but much of his work was under the name Glenn; he can be found with references under both names...
  
  , US conductor and arranger
• September 12 - Eddy Howard
  Eddy Howard
  Eddy Howard was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:...
  
  , singer (d. 1963)
• September 24 - Andrzej Panufnik
  Andrzej Panufnik
  Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...
  
  , composer (d. 1991)
• September 25 - Robert Wright
  Robert Wright (writer)
  Robert [Craig] Wright was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics...
  
  , US composer (d. 2005)
• October 7 - Alfred Drake
  Alfred Drake
  Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.-Biography:Born as Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents emigrated from Recco, Genoa, Drake began his Broadway career while still a student at Brooklyn College...
  
  , US singer and actor (d. 1992)
• October 10 - Ivory Joe Hunter
  Ivory Joe Hunter
  Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" . He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The...
  
  , R&B singer, songwriter and pianist (d. 1974)
• November 15 - Jorge Bolet
  Jorge Bolet
  Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born but mostly American-resident pianist and teacher.-Life:Bolet was born in Havana, and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942...
  
  , pianist and conductor (d. 1990)
• December 3 - Irving Fine
  Irving Fine
  Irving Gifford Fine was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neo-classical, romantic and, later, serial elements...
  
  , composer (d. 1962)
• December 14 - Rosalyn Tureck
  Rosalyn Tureck
  Rosalyn Tureck was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
  
  , pianist (d. 2003)
• December 23 - Dezider Kardoš
  Dezider Kardoš
  Dezider Kardoš , was Slovak composer, one of the main representatives of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in 1975, in 2006 was matriculated into the Gold Book of the Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society .-Life:After finishing the high school , he...
  
  , composer (d. 1991)
• date unknown - Rita Abatzi
  Rita Abatzi
  Rita Abatzi was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s.She was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s...
  
  , rebetiko singer (d. 1969)

Deaths

• January 5 - François Cellier
  François Cellier
  François Arsène Cellier , often called Frank, was an English conductor and composer. He is best known for his tenure as music director and conductor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company during the original runs and early revivals of the Savoy operas.-Life and career:Cellier was born in South Hackney,...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1849)
• January 23 - George W. Johnson
  George W. Johnson
  George Washington Johnson was a singer and pioneer sound recording artist, the first African American recording star of the phonograph.-Early life:...
  
  , singer and pioneer recording artist (b. 1850)
• March 1 - Tor Aulin
  Tor Aulin
  Tor Aulin was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer.-Biography:Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and then in the Conservatory of Berlin with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka...
  
  , violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1866)
• March 24 - Ellen Franz
  Ellen Franz
  Ellen Franz was a German pianist and actress.-Early life:She was born in Berlin. According to Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Ellen Franz made her first appearance in the Hoftheater of Meiningen in 1867.-Marriage:...
  
  , pianist and actress (b. 1839)
• March 31 - Hubert von Herkomer
  Hubert von Herkomer
  Sir Hubert von Herkomer , British painter of German descent. He was also a pioneering film-director and a composer. Though a very successful portraitist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor...
  
  , painter, film director and composer (b. 1849)
• May 10
  • Lillian Nordica
    Lillian Nordica
    Lillian Nordica was an American opera singer who had a major stage career in Europe and her native country....
    
    , opera singer (b. 1857)
  • Ernst von Schuch
    Ernst von Schuch
    Ernst Edler von Schuch, born Ernst Gottfried Schuch was an Austrian conductor, who became famous through his working collaborations with Richard Strauss at the Dresden Court Opera....
    
    , conductor (b. 1846)
• July 1 - Edmund Payne
  Edmund Payne
  Edmund Payne , was an actor, comedian, singer and dramatist best known for his comic appearances in Edwardian Musical Comedy. His father was Edmund Payne, a master cabinet builder and his mother was Eliza Payne née Ince....
  
  , musical comedy star (b. 1865)
• July 14 - Andrzej Hławiczka, musicologist (b. 1866)
• July 23 - Harry Evans
  Harry Evans (composer)
  Harry Evans , was a Welsh musician, conductor and composer.He was born in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, and learned music at home, showing such precocious talent that he was appointed organist of Gwernllwyn Congregational Church at the age of nine...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1873)
• August 7 - Bolesław Dembiński, composer (b. 1833)
• August 11 - Emil Fischer
  Emil Fischer (basso)
  Emil Fischer , was a famous German dramatic bass or bass-baritone, born in Brunswick.He made his début in 1857 in Graz in Boieldieu's Jean de Paris. After that he filled various engagements in Pressburg, Stettin, and Brunswick...
  
  , operatic bass (b. 1838)
• August 18 - Anna Yesipova
  Anna Yesipova
  Anna Yesipova was a prominent Russian pianist. Her name is cited variously as Anna Esipova; Anna or Annette Essipova; Anna, Annette or Annetta Essipoff; Annette von Essipow; Anna Jessipowa.Yesipova was one of Teodor Leszetycki's most brilliant pupils...
  
  , pianist (b. 1851)
• August 28 - Anatoly Lyadov, composer (b. 1855)
• September 3 - Albéric Magnard
  Albéric Magnard
  Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers...
  
  , composer (b. 1865)
• September 13 - Robert Hope-Jones
  Robert Hope-Jones
  Robert Hope-Jones , is considered to be the inventor of the theatre organ in the early 20th century...
  
  , inventor of the theatre organ (b. 1859)
• October 28 - Richard Heuberger
  Richard Heuberger
  Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher....
  
  , composer (b. 1850)
• November 9 - Jean-Baptiste Faure
  Jean-Baptiste Faure
  Jean-Baptiste Faure was a celebrated French operatic baritone and an art collector of great significance. He also composed a number of classical songs.-Singing career:Faure was born in Moulins...
  
  , operatic baritone and composer (b. 1830)
• December 14 - Giovanni Sgambati
  Giovanni Sgambati
  Giovanni Sgambati was an Italian composer.Born to an Italian father and an English mother, Sgambati, who lost his father early, received his early education at Trevi, in Umbria, where he wrote some church music and obtained experience as a singer and conductor...
  
  , composer (b. 1841)
• December 16 - Ivan Zajc
  Ivan Zajc
  Ivan Dragutin Stjepan Zajc or Ivan pl. Zajc , was a Croatian composer, conductor, director and teacher who for over forty years dominated Croatia's musical culture...
  
  , composer (b. 1832)
• December 25 - Bernhard Stavenhagen
  Bernhard Stavenhagen
  Bernhard Stavenhagen was a German pianist, composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt, and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music.-Biography:...
  
  , pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1862)
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  • Carl Kolling
    Carl Kolling
    Carl Kölling was a German composer of piano music.Two works available for the intermediate piano student are Flying Leaves in C Major, Op. 147, No. 1 and Fluttering Leaves in A Minor, Op. 147, No. 2 found in Masterpieces with Flair published by Alfred Publishing Company, Inc.Hungary , Op...
    
    , composer of piano music (b. 1831)
  • Johan Amberg
    Johan Amberg
    Johan Lauritz Walbom Amberg was a Danish composer and violinist.He started studying singing at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 1867, but he had to switch to violin because of problems with his voice. From 1877 to 1905, he was violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra and after 1905, he...
    
    , composer (b. 1846)