Events

• February 1 - 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. 4
  Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen)
  Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable", Op. 29, FS 76, by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, was completed in 1916. Composed against the backdrop of the First World War, this symphony is among the most dramatic that Nielsen wrote, featuring a "battle" between two sets of timpani.-Origin:Danish Composer...
  
  , the Inextinguishable, 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...
  
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• February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
  Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
  The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a professional American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.In September 2007, Maestra Marin Alsop led her inaugural concerts as the Orchestra’s twelfth music director, making her the first woman to head a major American orchestra.The BSO Board...
  
   presents its first concert.
• April 28 - Edison Records
  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 :...
  
   carry out the first public "comparison test" between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano Marie Rappold
  Marie Rappold
  Marie Rappold, née Winterroth was an English-born American operatic soprano.-Early life:Rappold was born in London to German parents...
  
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• June 5 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band
  Original Dixieland Jass Band
  The Original Dixieland Jass Band were a New Orleans, Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz single ever issued. The group composed and made the first recordings of many jazz standards, the most famous being Tiger Rag...
  
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• The Original Dixieland Jass Band
  Original Dixieland Jass Band
  The Original Dixieland Jass Band were a New Orleans, Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz single ever issued. The group composed and made the first recordings of many jazz standards, the most famous being Tiger Rag...
  
   make a hit in Chicago, Illinois.
• Wilber Sweatman records his hot ragtime in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
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• Sydney conservatorium of music
  Sydney Conservatorium of Music
  The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is one of the oldest and most prestigious music schools in Australia...
  
   in Australia accepted first students.
• Soprano Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann
  Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann
  Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann was a German operatic soprano of Brazilian birth. In 1916 she was awarded the Charlottenkreuz.-Professional career:...
  
   is awarded the Charlottenkreuz
  Charlottenkreuz
  The Charlottenkreuz was a decoration instituted on 5 January 1916 by King William II of Württemberg and named after his wife, the Queen of Württemberg, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe...
  
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• German soprano Vali von der Osten
  Vali von der Osten
  Vali von der Osten was a German soprano. She was the daughter of actor Emil von der Osten and Rosa von der Osten-Hildebrandt ....
  
   marries tenor Fritz Windgassen
  Fritz Windgassen
  Fritz Windgassen was a German Heldentenor and teacher.Windgassen was born in Lennep, near Remscheid. Following the wishes of his upstanding middle-class parents, he took up a respectable career in the German navy. Only after Prince Heinrich of Prussia praised his singing ability did he dare...
  
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Published popular music

• "Allah's Holiday" 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...
  
  
• "And They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "At Finnigan's Ball" w.m. Bert Lee
  Bert Lee
  Bert Lee was an English songwriter. He wrote for music hall and the musical stage, often in partnership with R. P. Weston.Lee was born 11 June 1880 in Ravensthorpe, Yorkshire, England....
  
  
• "Baby Shoes" by Joe Goodwin
• "Beale Street Blues
  Beale Street Blues
  "Beale Street Blues" is a 1916 song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. The title refers to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, the main entertainment district for the city's African American population in the early part of the twentieth century, and a place closely associated with the...
  
  " 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"....
  
  
• "A Broken Doll" w.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...
  
   & Frank Clifford Harris
  Frank Clifford Harris
  Frank Clifford Harris was a British lyricist. He often worked with composer James W. Tate....
  
  
• "Bugle Call Rag
  Bugle Call Rag
  "Bugle Call Rag" is a jazz standard written by Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel. It was first recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in 1922 as "Bugle Call Blues", although later renditions as well as the published sheet music and the song's copyright all used the title "Bugle Call Rag"...
  
  " w.m. Eubie Blake
  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
  
   & Carey Morgan
• "Bull Frog Blues" Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley
• "The Cobbler's Song" w. Oscar Asche
  Oscar Asche
  John Stange Heiss Oscar Asche , better known as Oscar Asche, was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and...
  
   m. Frederic Norton
  Frederic Norton
  Frederic Norton born George Frederic Norton on 11 October 1869 in Broughton, Salford, England. Died on 15 December 1946 in Holford, England. British composer, most associated with the record breaking Chu Chin Chow, which opened in 1916....
  
  
• "La Cumparsita" w. Carol Raven m. G. H. Matos Rodriguez (words written 1932)
• "Don't Leave Me, Daddy" Joe Verges
• "Down In Honky Tonky Town" 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"...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Down Where The Swanee River Flows" w. Charles McCarron m. Charles S. Alberte
• "For Dixie And Uncle Sam" 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....
  
  
• ""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" w. Darl MacBoyle 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"....
  
  
• "From Here To Shanghai" 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...
  
  
• "Give Me All Of You" Schwartzwald
• "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" 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....
  
  
• "Green Hills Of Somerset" w. Fred E. Weatherly
  Frederick Weatherly
  Frederic Edward Weatherly was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad Danny Boy set to the tune Londonderry Air, the religious "The Holy City", and the...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Have A Heart" w. Gene Buck 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...
  
  
• "Homesickness Blues" w.m. Cliff Hess
• "The Honolulu Blues" w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco
• "How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" w. Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
   m. Albert Gumble
• "Hula Lou" w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward
• "I Ain't Got Nobody
  I Ain't Got Nobody
  "I Ain't Got Nobody" was a c. 1915 song, written by Spencer Williams. Publisher Roger Graham received co-composer credits. It became a perennial standard, recorded many times over following generations, in styles ranging from pop to jazz to country music....
  
  " w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m. Spencer Williams
  Spencer Williams
  Spencer Williams was an American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. He is best known for his hit songs "Basin Street Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Tishomingo Blues", "Careless Love", and many...
  
  
• "I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden
• "I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" 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...
  
   & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "I Want To Marry A Male Quartette" 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...
  
  
• "If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)
  If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)
  "If You Were the Only Girl " is a popular song written by Nat D. Ayer with lyrics by Clifford Grey. The song was published in 1916. It was republished in 1946...
  
  " w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer
• "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" w.m. N. J. Clesi
• "Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There
  Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There
  "Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" is a popular song with music by Fred Fisher and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy and Howard Johnson, published in 1916....
  
  " w. Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
   & Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (lyricist)
  Howard Johnson was a song lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.Songwriter , author and lyricist, Johnson was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York. He was educated in high school and in private music study...
  
   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...
  
  
• "I've A Shooting Box In Scotland" w.m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs & Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
  
  
• "Joe Turner Blues" w. Walter Hirsch 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"....
  
  
• "Katinka" 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...
  
  
• "Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love" w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m. Ira Schuster
• "The Laddies Who Fought And Won" w.m. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
  
• "Li'l Liza Jane
  Li'l Liza Jane
  Li'l Liza Jane, also known as Little Liza Jane and Liza Jane, is a song dating back at least to the 1910s. It has become a perennial standard both as a song and an instrumental in traditional jazz, folk music, and bluegrass, and versions have repeatedly appeared in other genres including rock and...
  
  " w.m. Countess Ada De Lachau
• "Love Me At Twilight" w. William Jerome & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" w, Bert Hanlon & Benny Ryan m. Harry Tierney
• "Movie Trot" m. Harry H. Raymond
• "My Hawaiian Sunrise" w.m. 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...
  
   & Carey Morgan
• "My Syncopated Melody Man" w.m. Blanche Merrill & Eddie Cox
• "Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an" w.m. James Kendris
• "Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" w. Joe Goodwin & William Tracey m. Nat Vincent
• "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" w.m. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian" w. Al Dubin
  Al Dubin
  Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...
  
   m. Rennie Cormack
• "Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo" w. Stanley Murphy & Charles McCarron 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"....
  
  
• "Operatic Rag" J. Lensberg
• "Poor Butterfly
  Poor Butterfly
  "Poor Butterfly" is a popular song. It was inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly and contains a brief musical quote from the act 2 duet Tutti i fior in the verse....
  
  " w. John Golden m. Raymond Hubbell
• "Pretty Baby
  Pretty Baby (song)
  Pretty Baby is a song written by Tony Jackson during the Ragtime era. The song was remembered as being prominent in Jackson's repertory before he left New Orleans in 1912, but was not published until 1916....
  
  " 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. Tony Jackson & 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...
  
  
• "Rackety Coo!" 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...
  
  
• "Rolling Stones - All Come Rolling Home Again" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
• "Roses of Picardy
  Roses of Picardy
  Roses of Picardy is a wartime ballad written by lyricist Frederick Weatherly while he was an army officer in 1916. Set to music by Haydn Wood, it was one of the most famous songs from World War I....
  
  " w. Frederick Weatherly
  Frederick Weatherly
  Frederic Edward Weatherly was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad Danny Boy set to the tune Londonderry Air, the religious "The Holy City", and the...
  
   m. Haydn Wood
• "Shamrock Rag" m. Euday L. Bowman
  Euday L. Bowman
  Euday Louis Bowman was an American pianist and composer of ragtime and blues who represented the style of Texas Ragtime...
  
  
• "She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Sierra Sue" w.m. Joseph Buell Carey
• "Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" 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...
  
  
• "Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine" w. Joe McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
   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...
  
  

• "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
  Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
  "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to...
  
  " w.m. A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey
  Fred Godfrey
  Fred Godfrey was the pen name of Llewellyn Williams, a World War II songwriter...
  
   & Bennett Scott
  Bennett Scott
  Bennett Scott was a writer of music hall songs. He co-wrote many songs with A.J. Mills and Fred Godfrey including Tom Costello’s "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Sail Away", Whit Cunliffe’s "Fall In And Follow Me", "One Of The B’hoys" by Mark Sheridan, "When I Take My Morning Promenade" by Marie Lloyd,...
  
  
• "That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland" w.m. Henry I. Marshal
• "There's A Little Bit Of Bad In Every Good Little Girl" 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. 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...
  
  
• "There's A Quaker Down In Quaker Town" w. David Berg m. Alfred Solman
• "They Made It Twice As Nice as Paradise and They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii" w. Joe Goodwin m. Halsey K. Mohr
• "Throw Me A Rose" w. P. G. Wodehouse
  P. G. Wodehouse
  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
  
   & Herbert Reynolds m. Emmerich Kallman
• "Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday" 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....
  
  
• "Walkin' The Dog" 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...
  
  
• "What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?" w. Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
   & Howard Johnson m. James V. Monaco
• "When John McCormack Sings A Song" 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...
  
   & E. Ray Goetz
  E. Ray Goetz
  Edward Ray Goetz was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. Goetz appeared in the films Somebody Loves Me , The Greatest Show On Earth and For Me And My Gal . He wrote the songs "Toddling The Todalo" and "For...
  
   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...
  
  
• "When You're Down In Louisville" 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...
  
  
• "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
  George W. Meyer
  George W. Meyer aka Geo. W. Meyer was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter....
  
  
• "Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" w. Dave Radford m. Richard Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula" w.m. E. Ray Goetz
  E. Ray Goetz
  Edward Ray Goetz was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. Goetz appeared in the films Somebody Loves Me , The Greatest Show On Earth and For Me And My Gal . He wrote the songs "Toddling The Todalo" and "For...
  
  , Joe Young & Pete Wendling
  Pete Wendling
  Pete Wendling , an American composer and pianist, was born in New York City to German immigrants.He started his working life as a carpenter, but gained fame during the mid 1910s as a popular music composer - producing such hits as Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula, Take Me To The Land Of Jazz, Take Your...
  
  
• "You Belong To Me" 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. 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...
  
  
• "You Can't Get Along With 'Em Or Without 'Em" w. Grant Clarke 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...
  
  
• "You're In Love" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   & Edward Clark 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...
  
  

Hit recordings

• "O Sole Mio" by Enrico Caruso
• "Santa Lucia" by Enrico Caruso
• "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" by John McCormack
• "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" by Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "I Love A Piano" 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...
  
  
• "Pretty Baby
  Pretty Baby
  Pretty Baby may refer to:* Pretty Baby , a controversial 1978 drama starring Brooke Shields* Pretty Baby , a comedy featuring Dennis Morgan and Betsy Drake* "Pretty Baby....", an EastEnders episode...
  
  " by Billy Murray
• "I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" by Marion Harris
  Marion Harris
  Marion Harris was an American popular singer, most successful in the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs....
  
  
• "Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)" by James F. Harrison
• "There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding
  There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding
  "There's a Long, Long Trail" is a popular song of World War I. The lyrics were by Stoddard King and the music by Alonzo "Zo" Elliott, both seniors at Yale....
  
  " by James F. Harrison
• "Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" by Charles Harrison

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...
  
   - Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"
• Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
   - Suite for Piano
• Ernest Bloch
  Ernest Bloch
  Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...
  
   - Israel Symphony, String Quartet No. 1
• 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...
  
   - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
• 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...
  
   - Cello Sonata
• 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...
  
   - Piano Trio
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   - Karelian Legend
• Jesus Guridi
  Jesús Guridi
  Jesús Guridi Bidaola was a Spanish Basque composer, and is a key player in the Spanish and Basque music of the twentieth century. His style fits into what we might call the late romantic stamp, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a strong influence from the Basque culture...
  
   - Una aventura de Don Quijote
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
   - Cello Concerto in E-flat, Op. 3
• Ludvig Holm
  Ludvig Holm
  Ludvig Sophus Adolph Theodor Holm was a Danish violinist and composer.-Notable works:*op. 1 Fire sange*op. 2 Klavervariationer*op. 3 klaver*op. 4 klaver*op. 5 Strygekvartet Eb-dur*op. 6 Violinkoncert...
  
   - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
• 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"...
  
   - Fourth Symphony
• Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. He shares identical birth and death years with the composer Maurice Ravel....
  
   - Symphony no 5 in A minor, Op. 90, "Sinfonia brevis"
• Hubert Parry
  Hubert Parry
  Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...
  
   - Jerusalem
• Siegfried Salomon
  Siegfried Salomon
  Siegfried Salomon was a Danish composer.Salomon was born in Copenhagen. In 1899 he entered the Conservatory in Leipzig and studied there for four years. He also spent some time in Paris studying with Paul Le Flem. From 1903 he worked as an orchestral cellist and violist and appeared as a soloist...
  
   - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G minor
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   - Burleske for 4 Pantomimes and Chamber Orchestra
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
   - Second Cello Sonata

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...

• 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 Round Table
• Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
  
   - Goyescas
• Erwin Lendvai
  Erwin Lendvai
  Erwin Lendvai was a Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamilló Lendvay....
  
   - Elga
• Manuel Penella
  Manuel Penella
  Manuel Penella Moreno was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga...
  
   - El Gato Montés
• Felix Weingartner
  Felix Weingartner
  Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
  
   - Dame Kobold

Musical theater

• Betty
  Betty (musical)
  Betty is an English musical in three acts, with a book by Frederick Lonsdale and Gladys Unger, music by Paul Rubens and Ernest Steffan, and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Rubens. It was first produced at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester, opening on December 24, 1914, then at Daly's Theatre in London,...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre
  Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
  The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it was built by producer Charles Dillingham and opened as the Globe Theatre, in honor of London's Shakespearean playhouse, on...
  
   on October 2 and ran for 63 performances
• Broadway And Buttermilk Broadway production opened at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on August 15 and ran for 23 performances
• Chu Chin Chow
  Chu Chin Chow
  Chu Chin Chow is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves...
  
  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 His Majesty's Theatre
  His Majesty's Theatre
  His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen is the largest theatre in north-east Scotland, seating more than 1400. The theatre is sited on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the city's Union Terrace Gardens. It was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1906...
  
   on August 31 and ran for a record 2238 performances.
• Follow Me Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 29 and ran for 78 performances
• Pell Mell
  Pell Mell
  Pell Mell was an instrumental rock combo, formed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon.The original members were Arni May, guitar, and Jon-Lars Sorenson, bass, from the Portland avant-garde group UHF, and from local Reed College Bill Owen on guitar, and Bob Beerman on drums...
  
  London production opened at the Ambassadors Theatre on June 5 and ran for 298 performances
• Robinson Crusoe Jr Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   production opened on February 17 at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   and ran for 139 performances
• So Long Letty
  So Long Letty
  So Long Letty is a silent American comedy film directed by Al Christie, and starring Grace Darmond, T. Roy Barnes, and Colleen Moore. So Long Letty was an adaptation of a popular stage comedy/musical of the same name.-Story:...
  
  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 October 23 and ran for 96 performances
• Sybil
  Sybil
  In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil".-People:...
  
  Broadway production opened on January 10 at the Liberty Theatre
  Liberty Theatre
  The Liberty Theatre was a Broadway theater from 1904 to 1933, located at 236 West 42nd Street in New York City.In 1996 it was used for a staged reading of T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, with actress Fiona Shaw, directed by Deborah Warner. The New York Times review described the theater as...
  
   and ran for 168 performances. Starring Julia Sanderson
  Julia Sanderson
  Julia Sanderson was an actress and singer. Her father, Albert Sackett, was also a Broadway star. She was born August 20, 1888, in Springfield, Massachusetts. She appeared in the Forepaugh Circus as a child and in her early teen years with her father. She then moved to Broadway, where she appeared...
  
  , Donald Brian
  Donald Brian
  Donald Brian was an actor, dancer and singer born St. John's, Newfoundland , at the age of eighteen was crowned "King of Broadway" by the New York Times in 1907. Brian is noted for helping President Theodore Roosevelt act more relaxed in public and teaching Frank Sinatra to dance and entertain U.S...
  
   and Joseph Cawthorn
  Joseph Cawthorn
  Joseph Cawthorn was an American stage and film comic actor....
  
  .
• We're All in It London 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 Empire Theatre
  Empire Theatre
  Empire Theatre or Empire Theater may refer to:In the United Kingdom:*Empire Theatre of Varieties, now the Empire, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London*Glasgow Empire Theatre, Glasgow*Hackney Empire, in Hackney...
  
   on July 13
• Ziegfeld Follies Of 1916
  Ziegfeld Follies
  The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
  
  Broadway revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the 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 June 12 and ran for 112 performances

Births

• January 4 - Slim Gaillard
  Slim Gaillard
  Bulee "Slim" Gaillard was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout"...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1991)
• January 9 - Vic Mizzy
  Vic Mizzy
  Vic Mizzy was an American composer for television and movies whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and The Addams Family. He also penned top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s.-Biography:Vic Mizzy was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended New York...
  
  , TV theme composer (d. 2009)
• January 14 - Maxwell Davis
  Maxwell Davis
  Maxwell Davis was an American R&B saxophonist, arranger and record producer.-Biography:Davis was born in Independence, Kansas. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California, playing saxophone in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra...
  
  , R&B musician (d. 1970)
• January 15 - Artie Shapiro
  Artie Shapiro
  Arthur "Artie" Shapiro was an American jazz bassist.Shapiro began on trumpet at age 13 and picked up bass at 18. In the late 1930s he played with Wingy Manone, Joe Marsala, Eddie Condon, and Chu Berry...
  
  , jazz bassist (d. 2003)
• January 16 - Rudolf Benesh
  Rudolf Benesh
  Rudolf Benesh was a mathematician and created the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing. He was son of a Czech father and an Anglo-Italian mother....
  
  , developer of the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing (d. 1975)
• January 22 - Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
  
  , French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   composer
• February 5 - Daniel Santos
  Daniel Santos (singer)
  Daniel Santos was a singer and composer of boleros, and an overall performer of multiple Caribbean music genres, including guaracha, plena and rumba...
  
  , singer (d. 1992)
• February 8 - Jimmy Skidmore
  Jimmy Skidmore
  James Richard 'Jimmy' Skidmore was an English jazz tenor saxophonist born in London and father to tenor and soprano saxophonist Alan Skidmore, perhaps best-known for his work with George Shearing from 1950-1952...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1998)
• February 22 - Pedro Junco
  Pedro Junco
  Pedro Junco was a Cuban composer. He composed many boleros such as "Estoy Triste, "Soy Como Soy", "Me lo Dijo el Mar", "Quisiera", "Tus Ojos" and his most famous song "Nosotros"...
  
  , composer (d. 1939)
• February 29 - Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
  
  , singer (d. 1994)
• March 6 - Red Callender
  Red Callender
  Red Callender, , was a jazz bass and tuba player, famous for turning down a chance to work with Duke Ellington's Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars....
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1992)
• March 15 - Harry James
  Harry James
  Henry Haag “Harry” James was a trumpeter who led a jazz swing band during the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.-Biography:He was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a...
  
  , bandleader (d. 1983)
• March 17 - Ray Ellington
  Ray Ellington
  Ray Ellington was a popular English singer, drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960...
  
  , singer and bandleader (d. 1985)
• April 11 - Alberto Ginastera
  Alberto Ginastera
  Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
  
  , Argentinian
  Argentina
  Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
  
   composer (d. 1983)
• April 12 - Russell Garcia
  Russell Garcia (composer)
  Russell Garcia, QSM was a composer and arranger who wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast....
  
  , film score composer
• April 14 - Denis ApIvor
  Denis ApIvor
  Denis ApIvor was a British composer. He belonged to the generation of modernists that included Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens....
  
  , composer (d. 2004)
• April 15 - Lee Vincent
  Lee Vincent
  Lee Vincent was an American musician, orchestra leader, talent agent, radio sales manager.-Biography:Born as Vincent Lee Cerreta in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, Lee Vincent started learning music early...
  
  , DJ and orchestra leader (d. 2007)
• April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
  
  , violinist (d. 1999)
• April 30 - Robert Shaw
  Robert Shaw (conductor)
  Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...
  
  , conductor (d. 1999)
• May 6 - Adriana Caselotti
  Adriana Caselotti
  Adriana Mitchell Caselotti was an American actress and singer. She was the voice of the title character in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Caselotti was named as a Disney Legend in 1994.-Early life:...
  
  , voice (and model) for Snow White (d. 1997)
• May 9 - Bernard Rose
  Bernard Rose (musician)
  Bernard William George Rose, OBE was variously a student at the Royal College of Music 1933-1935, organist, soldier, and composer...
  
  , organist and composer (d. 1996)
• May 10 - Milton Babbitt
  Milton Babbitt
  Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...
  
  , composer
• May 17 - Paul Quinichette
  Paul Quinichette
  Paul Quinichette was a jazz tenor saxophone musician. He was known as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his uncanny emulation of the breathy style of Lester Young, known as Prez. Young, who affectionately called everyone "Lady ****" , called him "Lady Q"...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1983)
• May 21 - Lydia Mendoza
  Lydia Mendoza
  Lydia Mendoza was an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music. She is known as La Alondra de la Frontera ....
  
  , guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
• May 26 - Moondog
  Moondog
  Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin , was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he...
  
  , singer, percussionist, composer and inventor of musical instruments (d. 1999)
• June 15 - Horacio Salgán
  Horacio Salgán
  Horacio Adolfo Salgán is an Afro-Argentine pianist, composer, orchestra leader, and arranger who specializes in tango music....
  
  , pianist, composer and orchestra leader
• June 17 - Einar Englund, Finnish
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
   composer (died 1999)
• June 26 - Giuseppe Taddei
  Giuseppe Taddei
  Giuseppe Taddei was an Italian baritone, who performed mostly the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi....
  
  , operatic baritone
• July 9
  • Dean Goffin
    Dean Goffin
    Sir Dean Goffin was one of New Zealand's first prolific Salvation Army composers who composed not only music for the Army but for non-Army bands as well....
    
    , Salvation Army composer (d. 1984)
  • Edward Heath
    Edward Heath
    Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Leader of the Conservative Party ....
    
    , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (d. 2005)
• July 16 - Miles Copeland, Jr.
  Miles Copeland, Jr.
  Miles Axe Copeland, Jr. was an American musician, businessman, and CIA officer who was closely involved in major foreign-policy operations from the 1950s to the 1980s...
  
  , musician and CIA agent (d. 1991)
• July 24 - Bob Eberly
  Bob Eberly
  Bob Eberly was a big band vocalist, best-known for his association with Jimmy Dorsey and his duets with Helen O'Connell....
  
  , US singer with Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  's Orchestra (d. 1981)
• July 28 - Rosina Raisbeck
  Rosina Raisbeck
  Phyllis Rosina Raisbeck MBE was an Australian opera and concert mezzo-soprano singer. Her fine voice was basically a dramatic mezzo, with a warm middle register supporting strong top notes....
  
  , operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 2006)
• July 29 - Charlie Christian
  Charlie Christian
  Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian was an American swing and jazz guitarist.Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar, and is cited as a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra...
  
  , swing and jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
• August 3 - Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius was an African American songwriter.Born in Bath, Maine, by his early twenties he was in New York City writing music for and/or with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Witherspoon and B.B. King. Demetrius wrote the 1945 musical comedy short film Open the Door, Richard...
  
  , songwriter (d. 1988)
• August 18 - Moura Lympany
  Moura Lympany
  Dame Moura Lympany DBE was an English concert pianist.She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother originally taught her the piano...
  
  , pianist (d. 2005)
• August 21 - Bill Lee
  Bill Lee (singer)
  Bill Lee was an American playback singer who provided a voice or singing voice in many films, for actors in musicals and for many Disney characters. He was born in Johnson, Nebraska and died in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, of a brain tumor.Lee was part of a popular singing quartet known as The...
  
  , singer (d. 1980)
• August 24 – Léo Ferré
  Léo Ferré
  Léo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues...
  
  , singer, songwriter and composer (d. 1993)
• August 25 - Ethel Stark
  Ethel Stark
  Ethel Stark, is a Canadian violinist and conductor.Born in Montreal, she studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music with Alfred De Sève and Alfred Whitehead. From 1928 to 1934, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Lea Luboshutz, Louis Bailly, Artur Rodziński, Fritz Reiner and Carl...
  
  , violinist and composer
• August 27 - Martha Raye
  Martha Raye
  Martha Raye was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television....
  
  , US singer and actress (d. 1994)
• September 8 - René Touzet
  René Touzet
  René Touzet y Monte was a Cuban-born American composer, pianist and bandleader.-Career as bandleader:...
  
  , pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 2003)
• September 13 - Dick Haymes
  Dick Haymes
  Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes was an Argentine actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, who was an actor, television host, and songwriter....
  
  , Argentinian-born US singer and actor (d. 1980)
• September 16 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic
  Carnatic music
  Carnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...
  
   vocalist (d. 2004)
• October 3 - David Mann
  David Mann (songwriter)
  David Mann was an American songwriter of popular songs...
  
  , songwriter (d. 2002)
• October 19
  • Karl-Birger Blomdahl
    Karl-Birger Blomdahl
    Karl-Birger Blomdahl was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in Swedish modernism. His teachers included Hilding Rosenberg...
    
    , composer and conductor (d. 1968)
  • Emil Gilels
    Emil Gilels
    Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...
    
    , Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
    
     classical pianist
    Pianist
    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
    
     (d. 1985)
• October 28 - Bill Harris
  Bill Harris (musician)
  Bill Harris was a jazz trombonist.-Biography:Early in his career, Harris performed with Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, and Eddie Condon. He is renowned for his broad, thick tone and quick vibrato that remained for the duration of each tone. He went on to join Woody Herman's First Herd in 1944...
  
  , jazz trombonist (d. 1973)
• October 29 - Hadda Brooks
  Hadda Brooks
  Hadda Brooks , was an American pianist, vocalist and composer. Her first single, "Swingin' the Boogie", which she composed, was issued in 1945...
  
  , pianist, singer and composer (d. 2002)
• November 6 - Ray Conniff
  Ray Conniff
  Joseph Raymond Conniff was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  , trombonist and bandleader (d. 2002)
• November 10 - Billy May
  Billy May
  William E. "Billy" May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet , Batman , and Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven , and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among...
  
  , composer and arranger (d. 2004)
• December 11 - Perez Prado
  Perez Prado
  Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, musician , and composer. He is often referred to as the 'King of the Mambo'.His orchestra was the most popular in mambo...
  
  , Cuban bandleader and composer (d. 1989)
• December 15
  • Buddy Cole
    Buddy Cole (musician)
    Edwin LeMar Cole, known as Buddy Cole , was a jazz pianist and orchestra leader. He played behind a number of pop singers, including Rosemary Clooney, Jill Corey, and The Four Lads, who recorded for Columbia Records.-Biography:Buddy Cole was born in Irving, Illinois, and started his musical career...
    
    , jazz musician (d. 1964)
  • Greta Gynt
    Greta Gynt
    Greta Gynt , born Margrethe Woxholt, was a Norwegian singer, dancer and actress. -Biography:Greta Gynt was born Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norway. As a child, she came with her parents to England and started dancing lessons at the age of 5. Eventually, they moved back to Norway...
    
    , singer, dancer and actress (d. 2000)
• December 18 - Betty Grable
  Betty Grable
  Elizabeth Ruth "Betty" Grable was an American actress, dancer and singer.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later included in the LIFE magazine project "100 Photos that Changed the World"...
  
  , star of many Hollywood musicals (d. 1973)
• December 25
  • Oscar Moore
    Oscar Moore
    Oscar Moore was an American swing jazz guitarist.Moore was an integral part of the Nat King Cole Trio during 1937–1947, appearing on virtually all of Cole's records during the period. A superb and influential guitarist, Moore was himself influenced by Charlie Christian...
    
    , jazz guitarist (d. 1981)
  • Graciela Naranjo
    Graciela Naranjo
    Graciela Naranjo [nah-rahn'-ho] was a Venezuelan singer and actress. A radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland, she made her professional debut as a bolero singer in 1931. From the thirties onward her fame as a singer grew, she appeared in films and had her own TV show in an...
    
    , Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001)
• December 27 – Johnny Frigo
  Johnny Frigo
  Johnny Frigo was an American jazz violinist and bassist.His son, Derek John Frigo, was the lead guitarist for the rock band Enuff Z'nuff. Derek Frigo died of a drug overdose on May 28, 2004....
  
  , American jazz violinist and bassist (d. 2007)
• date unknown
  • Jan Håkan Åberg
    Jan Håkan Åberg
    Jan Håkan Åberg is a Swedish organist and composer.Åberg has worked as a cathedral organist in Härnösand. He is represented in the current Swedish Book of Psalms with two songs: In dulci jubilo and Så älskade Gud världen all.-References:...
    
    , organist and composer
  • Sam Taylor
    Sam Taylor (jazz)
    Sam Taylor best known as the tenor saxophonist Sam "The Man" Taylor, was an American jazz and blues player, whose honking style set the standard for tenor sax solos in both rock and roll and rhythm and blues....
    
    , jazz musician (d.1980)
  • Freddie Webster
    Freddie Webster
    Freddie Webster was a jazz trumpeter who, Dizzy Gillespie once said, "had the best sound on trumpet since the trumpet was invented--just alive and full of life." He is perhaps best known for being cited by Miles Davis as an early influence.Webster was born in Cleveland, Ohio...
    
    , jazz musician (d. 1947)

Deaths

• January 16 - Charles A. Zimmerman
  Charles A. Zimmerman
  Charles A. Zimmermann was an American composer of marches and popular music. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, he was appointed bandmaster at the United States Naval Academy in 1887 at the age of 26. He served as the Academy's bandmaster until his death from a brain...
  
  , composer (b. 1861)
• January 21 - George Musgrove
  George Musgrove
  George Musgrove was an English-born Australian theatre producer.-Early life:Musgrove was born at Surbiton, England, the son of Thomas John Watson Musgrove, an accountant, and his wife, Fanny Hodson, an actress and sister of Georgiana Rosa Hodson who married William Saurin Lyster...
  
  , theatre and opera producer (b. 1854)
• February 4 - Adolphe Biarent
  Adolphe Biarent
  Adolphe Biarent was a Belgian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher.Biarent studied at the conservatories of Brussels and of Ghent, and was a pupil of Émile Mathieu...
  
  , cellist and composer (b. 1871)
• February 5 - Francesco Marconi
  Francesco Marconi
  Francesco Marconi was an operatic tenor from Rome who enjoyed an important international career. In 1924, a reputable biographical dictionary of musicians called him 'one of the most renowned and esteemed singers of the last 50 years'...
  
  , operatic tenor (b. 1853/1855)
• February 20 - Giovanni Sbriglia
  Giovanni Sbriglia
  Giovanni Sbriglia , was an Italian tenor and prominent teacher of singing.A native of Naples, Sbriglia attended the city's music conservatory before making his debut, aged 21, at the Teatro San Carlo. He then performed throughout Italy before being engaged by Max Maretzek for New York City's...
  
  , operatic tenor and singing teacher (b. 1832)
• March 7 - José Ferrer
  José Ferrer (guitarist)
  José Ferrer Esteve de Fujadas was a Spanish guitarist and composer, born in Torroella de Montgrí, near Girona, on March 13, 1835.Ferrer studied guitar with his father, a guitarist and collector of sheet music, before continuing his studies with José Brocá. In 1882, he left Spain for Paris in order...
  
  , guitarist (b. 1835)
• March 24 - Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
  
  , composer (b. 1867)
• May 11 - Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
  , composer (b. 1873)
• May 13
  • Clara Louise Kellogg
    Clara Louise Kellogg
    Clara Louise Kellogg was an American singer.She was a daughter of George Kellogg and Jane Elizabeth , born at Sumterville, South Carolina, and was educated in New York for the musical profession, singing first in opera there in 1861. Her fine soprano voice and artistic gifts soon made her famous...
    
    , singer (b. 1842)
  • Jessie MacLachlan
    Jessie MacLachlan
    Jessie Niven MacLachlan was a Scottish Gaelic soprano.A native of Mull, Jessie was the eldest of eight children born to Alexander MacLachlan and Margaret Campbell Niven...
    
    , Gaelic singer (b. 1866)
• May 28 - Albert Lavignac
  Albert Lavignac
  Albert Lavignac was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer.-Biography:Lavignac was borin in Paris and studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris, where later he taught harmony...
  
  , musicologist and composer (b. 1846)
• June 5 - Mildred J. Hill
  Mildred J. Hill
  Mildred J. Hill was an American songwriter and musicologist, who composed the melody for "Good Morning to All", later used as the melody for "Happy Birthday to You".-Biography:...
  
  , songwriter (b. 1859)
• June 10 - Max Vogrich
  Max Vogrich
  Max Vogrich was an Austrian pianist and composer.Max Vogrich was born in Hermannstadt, Transylvania . A childhood prodigy, he was an acclaimed pianist at the age of 14 years. He studied at Leipzig under Carl Reinecke, Hans Richter, Moritz Hauptmann, Wenzel, and Ignaz Moscheles, completing the...
  
  , pianist and composer (b.1852)
• August 2 - Hamish MacCunn
  Hamish MacCunn
  thumb|right|Portrait of MacCunn, 1889, by [[John Pettie]]Hamish MacCunn , Scottish romantic composer, was born in Greenock, the son of a shipowner, and was educated at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.MacCunn's first success...
  
  , composer (b. 1868)
• August 5 - 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...
  
  , composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
• August 8 - Franz Eckert, composer (b. 1852)
• September 10 - Friedrich Gernsheim
  Friedrich Gernsheim
  Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr...
  
  , pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
• September 15 - Julius Fučík
  Julius Fucík (composer)
  Julius Arnost Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.Fučík spent most of his life as the leader of military brass bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 300 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name...
  
  , composer (b. 1872)
• November 2 - Marie Wieck
  Marie Wieck
  Marie Wieck was a German pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer. She was the daughter of renowned piano teacher Friedrich Wieck, and the sister of Clara Schumann. -Early life and education:...
  
  , pianist, singer, piano teacher and composer (b. 1832)
• November 23 - Eduard Nápravník
  Eduard Nápravník
  Eduard Francevič Nápravník was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for many decades...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1839)
• December 2 - Francesco Paolo Tosti
  Francesco Paolo Tosti
  Sir Paolo Tosti was an Italian, later British, composer and music teacher.-Life:Francesco Paolo Tosti received most of his music education in his native Ortona, Italy, as well as the conservatory in Naples. Tosti began his music education at the Royal College of San Pietro a Majella at the age of...
  
  , composer and music teacher (b. 1846)
• December 5 - Hans Richter
  Hans Richter (conductor)
  Hans Richter was an Austrian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Biography:Richter was born in Raab , Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was opera-singer Jozsefa Csazenszky. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory...
  
  , conductor (b. 1843)
• December 20 - William Gilchrist
  William Gilchrist
  William Wallace Gilchrist was an American composer and a major figure in nineteenth century music of Philadelphia....
  
  , composer (b. 1846)
• December 28 - Eduard Strauss
  Eduard Strauss
  Eduard Strauss was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as dance-music...
  
  , composer (b. 1835)
• December 31 - Ernst Rudorff
  Ernst Rudorff
  Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff was a German composer and music teacher.Born in Berlin, Rudorff studied piano under Woldemar Bargiel from 1852 to 1857, before enrolling at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1859, where he studied under Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, and Julius Rietz. He was also a private...
  
  , composer and music teacher (b. 1840)
• date unknown
  • John Francis Barnett
    John Francis Barnett
    John Francis Barnett , English music composer and teacher, was the son of John Barnett's brother, Joseph Alfred, also a professor of music. John Francis carried on the traditions of the family as a composer and teacher...
    
    , composer and music teacher (b. 1837)
  • Charlie Case
    Charlie Case
    Charlie Case was a black-face comedian in America who wrote and sang vaudeville parodies of the 19th century ballad style. He influenced F...
    
    , vaudeville entertainer