Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1920s ==
* '''[[1929 in music]]''', '''[[1929 in British music]]''', '''[[1929 in Norwegian music]]''' – Cole Porter's ''[[Fifty Million Frenchmen]]''; Birth of [[Beverly Sills]], [[Bill Evans]], [[Dick Clark]], [[Berry Gordy]], [[Henri Pousseur]]
* '''[[1928 in music]]''', '''[[1928 in British music]]''', '''[[1928 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Bo Diddley]] and [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]]; Fats Domino ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' by [[Kurt Weill]] and [[Bertolt Brecht]] (libretto) premieres in Berlin
* '''[[1927 in music]]''', '''[[1927 in British music]]''', '''[[1927 in Norwegian music]]''' – Jerome Kern's ''[[Show Boat]]''; Igor Stravinsky's ''[[Apollo (ballet)|Apollo]]''; Birth of [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]], [[Patti Page]], [[Ralph Stanley]]
* '''[[1926 in music]]''', '''[[1926 in British music]]''', '''[[1926 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Tapiola (Sibelius)|Tapiola]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Birth of [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Joan Sutherland]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Chuck Berry]], [[Tony Bennett]], [[Big Mama Thornton]]; ''[[Turandot]]'' by [[Giacomo Puccini]] premieres in [[Milan]]
* '''[[1925 in music]]''', '''[[1925 in British music]]''', '''[[1925 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Celia Cruz]], [[B.B. King]] and [[Pierre Boulez]]; Big record labels begin using electric [[microphone]]s for recording; 78 RPM adopted as standard for [[gramophone record|records]]; [[BBC]] makes first radio broadcast in stereo; ''[[Wozzeck]]'' by [[Alban Berg]] premieres in Berlin, [[Carl Ruggles]], ''Portals''. Debut of the [[Grand Ole Opry]].
* '''[[1924 in music]]''', '''[[1924 in British music]]''', '''[[1924 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[George Gershwin|Gershwin's]] ''[[Rhapsody in Blue]]'' premieres in New York; the ''[[Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 7]]'' by [[Jean Sibelius]]; Death of [[Giacomo Puccini|Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini]], Italian opera composer, [[Carl Ruggles]]. ''[[Men and Mountains]]''. Debut of the [[National Barn Dance]], the first radio program devoted to [[country music]].
* '''[[1923 in music]]''', '''[[1923 in British music]]''', '''[[1923 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Hank Williams]], First recordings by [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Bessie Smith]], and many other African-American artists, [[Carl Ruggles]], ''[[Vox clamans in deserto]]''
* '''[[1922 in music]]''', '''[[1922 in British music]]''', '''[[1922 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Judy Garland]].
* '''[[1921 in music]]''', '''[[1921 in British music]]''', '''[[1921 in Norwegian music]]''' – Death of [[Enrico Caruso]], [[Carl Ruggles]] ''Angels''
* '''[[1920 in music]]''', '''[[1920 in British music]]''', '''[[1920 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Charlie Parker]], [[Ravi Shankar]], [[Isaac Stern]]; Death of [[Alberto Nepomuceno]], Brazilian composer, pianist, organist and conductor.