Events[edit]
- August 26 - Rutland Boughton's fairy opera The Immortal Hour is first performed in Glastonbury Assembly Rooms at the inaugural Glastonbury Festival co-founded by the English socialist composer.[1]
- October - Adelina Patti gives her last public performance, in a Red Cross concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
- October 15 - In Rovigo, Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
- The first recorded calypso music is made in Trinidad and Tobago.
- First publication of Orchestration, the classic book by Cecil Forsyth.
Published popular music[edit]
- "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" w.m. Arthur Fields & Walter Donovan. Performed in the 1951 film Two Weeks with Love by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter
- "After The Roses Have Faded Away" w. Bessie Buchanan m. Ernest R. Ball
- "Along Came Ruth" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Always Treat Her Like A Baby" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Back To The Carolina You Love" w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz
- "Burlington Bertie From Bow" w.m. William Hargreaves
- "By Heck" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. S. R. Henry
- "By The Beautiful Sea" w. Harold R. Atteridge m. Harry Carroll
- "By The Waters Of Minnetonka" w. J. M. Cavanass m. Thurlow Lieurance
- "California And You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Puck
- "Can't You Hear Me Callin' Caroline?" w.m. William H. Gardner & Caro Roma
- "Cecile Waltz" by Frank McKee
- "Colonel Bogey - March" m. Kenneth J. Alford
- "Come Over To Dover" Murphy, Botsford
- "La Cucaracha" w. (Eng) Stanley Adams m. arr. Juan Y. D'Lorah
- "The Darktown Poker Club" w. Jean C. Havez m. Bert Williams & Will H. Vodery
- "The Day Is Done" w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Herman Lohr
- "Desecration Rag" Felix Arndt
- "Down Among The Sheltering Palms" w. James Brockman m. Abe Olman
- "La Estrellita" m. Maurice Ponce
- "Everybody Rag With Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Grace LeBoy
- "Fido Is A Hot Dog Now" w. Charles McCarron & Thomas J. Gray m. Raymond Walker
- "Follow The Crowd" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Gilbert, The Filbert" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herman Finck
- "Goodbye Girls I'm Through" w. John Golden m. Ivan Caryll
- "He's A Devil In His Own Home Town" w. Grant Clarke & Irving Berlin m. Irving Berlin
- "He's A Rag Picker" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Hot House Rag" m. Paul Pratt
- "I Love the Ladies" by Grant Clarke
- "I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "I Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You" w. Clifford Harris m. James W. Tate
- "If I Had You" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "If That's Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "If You Don't Want My Peaches" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "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" composed by Nakayama Shimpei is the first big kayōkyoku (pop music) hit in Japan
- "Keep the Home Fires Burning" w. Lena Guilbert Ford m. Ivor Novello
- "Land" by Irving Berlin
- "A Little Bit Of Heaven Sure They Call It Ireland" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
- "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
- "Missouri Waltz" 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
- "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 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" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Poor Pauline" w. Charles McCarron m. Raymond Walker
- "Revival Day" Berlin
- "Roll Them Cotton Bales" w. James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
- "Rufus Johnson's Harmony Band" w.m. Shelton Brooks & Maurice Abrahams
- "Same Sort Of Girl" w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
- "Settle Down In A One-Horse Town" Irving Berlin
- "Shadowland" w. Blanche Merrill m. Gus Edwards
- "She's Dancing Her Heart Away" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Kerry Mills
- "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers" w. R. P. Weston m. Herman E. Darewski
- "The Springtime Of Life" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
- "St. Louis Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
- "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Sylvia" w. Clinton Scollard m. Oley Speaks
- "Syncopated Walk" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "That's a Plenty" m. Lew Pollack w. Ray Gilbert
- "There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning" w. Joe McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
- "They Didn't Believe Me" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Jerome Kern
- "They're On Their Way To Mexico" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "This Is The Life" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "'Twas In September" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
- "Twelfth Street Rag" 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
- "What Is Love" Irving Berlin
- "When It's Night Time In Dixieland" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "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
- "When You're A Long, Long Way From Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
- "When You're Away" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
- "Who Paid The Rent For Mrs Rip Van Winkle?" Bryan, Fischer
- "The Yellow Dog Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
- "You Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Love" w. J. Will Callahan m. Ernest R. Ball
- "Your King and Country Need You (1)" w. Paul Pelham m. W. H. Wallis and Fred Elton
- "Your King and Country Need You (2)" w. Huntley Trevor m. Henry E. Pether
- "Your King and Country Want You" w. and m. Paul Rubens
Popular recordings[edit]
- "Aba Daba Honeymoon" by Collins & Harlan
- "Brindisi" from La traviata, by Enrico Caruso & Alma Gluck
- "Ballin' the Jack" by Prince's Orchestra
- "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by Billy Murray
Classical music[edit]
- John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator (ballet)
- Arthur De Greef - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor
- Frederick Delius - Violin Sonata No. 1
- Ernő Dohnányi - Variations on a Nursery Song
- Marcel Dupré - Psyche (cantata)
- George Enescu – Symphony No. 2 in A, op. 17
- Herbert Howells - Piano Concerto No. 1
- Charles Ives - Violin Sonata No. 3
- Nikolai Medtner - Sonate-Ballade op. 27
- Carl Nielsen - Serenata in vano
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
- Sarcasms, for piano
- The Ugly Duckling, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
- Roger Quilter - A Children's Overture
- Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A Minor
- Max Reger - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (orchestral version)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony
- Anton Webern - Cello Sonata
- Érik Satie - Sports et divertissements
Opera[edit]
- Rutland Boughton - The Immortal Hour
- Jules Massenet - Cléopâtre
- Henri Rabaud - Mârouf, savetier du Caire
- Joaquín Turina - Margot
- Gabriel von Wayditch - Opium Dreams
- Riccardo Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini
Musical theatre[edit]
- Adele London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30
- The Belle of Bond Street Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre 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 London revival opened at the Aldwych Theatre on November 4
- The Girl from Utah Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 24 and ran for 120 performances
- The Lilac Domino (libretto by Emmerich von Gatti and Béla Jenbach; music by Charles Cuvillier) Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre 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 by Victor Jacobi, with libretto by Martos Ferenc and Miklós Bródy. First performed on February 27 in Budapest.
- Tonight's The Night Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on December 24 and ran for 112 performances
- Wars of the World Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 5 and ran for 229 performances
- Watch Your Step Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre 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 on February 23 for a total run of 112 performances
Births[edit]
- February 10 - Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2001)
- February 18 - Pee Wee King, country musician (d. 2000)
- March 5 - Philip Farkas, horn player (d. 1992)
- March 6 - Kiril Kondrashin, conductor (d. 1981)
- March 21 - Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (d. 1990)
- March 28 - Clara Petrella, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1987)
- March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, blues musician (d. 1948)
- April 4 - Frances Langford, US singer and actress (d. 2005)
- May 9
- Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor (d. 2005)
- Hank Snow, country singer (d. 1999)
- May 18 - Boris Christoff, operatic bass (d. 1993)
- May 26 - Ziggy Elman, US trumpet player (d. 1968)
- May 31 - Akira Ifukube, composer (d. 2006)
- June 6 - Iris du Pré, pianist, mother of Jacqueline du Pré and Hilary du Pré (d. 1985)
- June 28 - Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
- July 2 - Frederick Fennell, conductor (d. 2004)
- July 8 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician and singer (d. 1993)
- July 24 - Riccardo Malipiero, Italian composer, pianist, and music educator (d. 2003)
- July 26
- Erskine Hawkins, US jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993)
- Ralph Blane, US composer and singer (d. 1995)
- August 5 - Stjepan Šulek, Croatian composer (d. 1986)
- August 10 - Witold Małcużyński, Polish pianist (d. 1977)
- August 28 - Abe (Glenn) Osser, US conductor and arranger
- September 12 - Eddy Howard, singer (d. 1963)
- September 24 - Andrzej Panufnik, composer (d. 1991)
- September 25 - Robert Wright, US composer (d. 2005)
- October 7 - Alfred Drake, US singer and actor (d. 1992)
- October 10 - Ivory Joe Hunter, R&B singer, songwriter and pianist (d. 1974)
- November 15 - Jorge Bolet, pianist and conductor (d. 1990)
- December 3 - Irving Fine, composer (d. 1962)
- December 14 - Rosalyn Tureck, pianist (d. 2003)
- December 23 - Dezider Kardoš, composer (d. 1991)
- date unknown - Rita Abatzi, rebetiko singer (d. 1969)
Deaths[edit]
- January 5 - François Cellier, conductor and composer (b. 1849)
- January 23 - George W. Johnson, singer and pioneer recording artist (b. 1850)
- March 1 - Tor Aulin, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1866)
- March 24 - Ellen Franz, pianist and actress (b. 1839)
- March 31 - Hubert von Herkomer, painter, film director and composer (b. 1849)
- May 3 - Carl Kölling, composer of piano music (b. 1831)
- May 10
- Lillian Nordica, opera singer (b. 1857)
- Ernst von Schuch, conductor (b. 1846)
- July 1 - Edmund Payne, musical comedy star (b. 1865)
- July 14 - Andrzej Hławiczka, musicologist (b. 1866)
- July 23 - Harry Evans, conductor and composer (b. 1873)
- August 7 - Bolesław Dembiński, composer (b. 1833)
- August 11 - Emil Fischer, operatic bass (b. 1838)
- August 18 - Anna Yesipova, pianist (b. 1851)
- August 28 - Anatoly Lyadov, composer (b. 1855)
- September 3 - Albéric Magnard, composer (b. 1865)
- September 13 - Robert Hope-Jones, inventor of the theatre organ (b. 1859)
- October 28 - Richard Heuberger, composer (b. 1850)
- November 9 - Jean-Baptiste Faure, operatic baritone and composer (b. 1830)
- December 14 - Giovanni Sgambati, composer (b. 1841)
- December 16 - Ivan Zajc, composer (b. 1832)
- December 25 - Bernhard Stavenhagen, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1862
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