Editing 1914 in music (section)

==Events==
[[File:GFarrar1914Ad.jpg|thumb|[[Geraldine Farrar]] in a 1914 [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victrola]] advertisement]]
*[[January 1]] – The copyright on Wagner's [[Parsifal (opera)|Parsifal]] expires allowing it to be staged outside of [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus|Bayreuth]]. Performances take place in [[Barcelona]], [[Prague]], [[Berlin]], [[Budapest]], [[Bologna]], [[Rome]] and [[Wrocław]]. In the next few weeks it is staged in [[St. Petersburg]], [[Paris]], [[Brussels]], [[Vienna]] and [[London]]'s [[Covent Garden]].
*[[January 21]] – [[Edward Elgar]] makes the first recordings of his music, including the miniature "Carissima" prior to its public premiere.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.classicalsource.com/article/feature-review-elgar-conducts-elgar-the-complete-recordings-1914-1925-new-transfers-from-elgars-personal-record-library-music-arts/|first=Quentin|last=James|title=Feature Review: Elgar conducts Elgar – The complete recordings, 1914-1925|work=Classical Source|date=17 January 2012 |accessdate=2022-12-28}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – First public performance of [[Leoš Janáček]]'s piano cycle ''[[In the Mists]]'' at the third concert of the Organ School in Brno by pianist Marie Dvořáková, teacher of the school.
*January – First Finnish performance of [[Jean Sibelius]]'s tone poem ''[[Luonnotar (Sibelius)|Luonnotar]]'', with soprano [[Aino Ackté]] and conductor [[Georg Schnéevoigt]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature)|work=Jean Sibelius – The Music|accessdate=2016-11-12|url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/ork_luonnotar.htm}}</ref>
*c. June – First publication of ''Orchestration'', the classic book by [[Cecil Forsyth]].
*[[August 26]] – [[Rutland Boughton]]'s [[fairy opera]] ''[[The Immortal Hour]]'' is first performed in the [[Glastonbury]] Assembly Rooms at the inaugural [[Glastonbury Festival (1914–1925)|Glastonbury Festival]] co-founded by the English socialist composer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hurd|authorlink=Michael Hurd (composer)|first=Michael|year=1983|title=Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour|publisher=[[Hyperion Records|Hyperion]]|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDD22040|accessdate=2014-09-01}}</ref> On August 5, the first concert concluded with the choral song "The Last Post" by [[Charles Villiers Stanford]] in lieu of the Grail Dance from ''Parsifal'' "owing to the outbreak of war."<ref>{{cite news|title=Glastonbury Musical Festival|newspaper=Central Somerset Gazette|location=Glastonbury|date=7 August 1914|page=5}}</ref>
*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 [[opera]]tic debut in [[Amilcare Ponchielli]]'s ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]''.
*[[December 31]] – English composer [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], aged 42, volunteers for war service, initially as a private with the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Stephen|last=Connock|title=The Edge of Beyond|journal=Journal of the RVW Society|issue=16|date=October 1999|pages=3–6}}</ref>
*The first recording of [[calypso music]] is made in [[Trinidad and Tobago]].{{cn|date=March 2025}}