Editing 1920 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 19]] – The [[Salzburg Festival]] is revived.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Fifield|title=True Artist and True Friend: A Biography of Hans Richter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-k4IAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-816157-8|page=241}}</ref>
*[[September 4]] – [[City of Birmingham Orchestra]] (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by [[Appleby Matthews]], opens with [[Granville Bantock]]'s overture ''Saul''; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when [[Edward Elgar]] conducts a programme of his own music in [[Birmingham Town Hall]].
*[[November 15]] – First complete public performance of [[Gustav Holst]]'s suite ''[[The Planets]]'' given in London by the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Albert Coates (musician)|Albert Coates]].
*[[December 4]] – Première of the opera ''[[Die tote Stadt]]'' by 23-year-old [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]]. It later becomes known that the librettist, "Paul Schott", is Korngold's father [[Julius Korngold|Julius]].
*[[December 30]] – Pearl Hamilton (later with the [[Three X Sisters]]), plays piano with small jazz ensemble to appreciative audience at the Star Theater in New York City.
*[[Mamie Smith]]'s first [[blues]] recordings become a hit, alerting record companies to the [[African American]] market.
*[[Hamilton Harty]] is appointed resident conductor of the [[Hallé Orchestra]].
*[[Henri Sauguet]] forms Groupe des Trois (the Group of Three) along with [[Louis Emié]] and [[Jean-Marcel Lizotte]].
*The [[Central Band of the Royal Air Force]] is formed in Britain.
*The [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra]] launches its [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]] festival.
*[[Gabriel Fauré]] retires from the Paris Conservatoire, and is awarded the Grand-Croix of the [[Légion d'Honneur]].