Editing 1905 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[Michael Tippett]], composer (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite book|title=Discographies of British Composers: Sir Michael Tippett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TjE5AQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=British Institute of Recorded Sound|page=89}}</ref>
*[[January 5]] - [[Ernesto Halffter]], Spanish composer (d. [[1989 in music|1989]])
*[[January 8]] – [[Giacinto Scelsi]], composer (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Morris|title=A Guide to 20th-century Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-45601-4|page=268}}</ref>
*[[January 10]] – [[Albert Arlen]], Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. [[1993 in music|1993]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eileen Dorum|title=Composers of Australia: A Chronological Guide to Composers Born Before 1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nj0KAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=I.C. & E.E. Dorum|isbn=978-0-9588965-2-8|page=57}}</ref>
*[[January 12]] – [[Tex Ritter]], actor and singer (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael McCall|author2=John Rumble|author3=Paul Kingsbury|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsiL49XFbnkC&pg=PT1812|date=16 December 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-984044-1|pages=1812}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[Elena Nicolai]], opera singer (d. [[1993 in music|1993]])
*[[January 26]] – [[Maria von Trapp]], singer (d. [[1987 in music|1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_espAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512800-0|page=801}}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[Chick Webb|William Henry "Chick" Webb]], drummer (d. [[1939 in music|1939]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Chilton|title=McKinney's Music: A Bio-discography of McKinney's Cotton Pickers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwLiAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Bloomsbury Book Shop|isbn=978-0-9501290-1-3|page=65}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] – [[Harold Arlen]], popular composer (d. [[1986 in music|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerald Bordman|title=American Musical Theater: A Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiBaRas9jTwC&pg=PA517|date=March 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-513074-4|pages=517}}</ref>
*[[February 18]] – [[Queenie Leonard]], British character actress and singer (d. [[2002 in music|2002]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Harald Lander]], Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1971)
*[[March 2]] – [[Marc Blitzstein]], American composer (d. [[1964 in music|1964]])<ref name="Slonimsky1938">{{cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=Music Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=W.W. Norton, Incorporated|page=50}}</ref>
*[[March 6]] – [[Bob Wills]], country music singer (d. [[1975 in music|1975]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kurt Wolff|title=Country Music: The Rough Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&pg=PA92|year=2000|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-534-4|pages=92–}}</ref>
*[[March 11]] – [[Michael Carr (composer)|Michael Carr]], composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
*[[March 15]] 
** [[Bertha Hill]], American blues, vaudeville singer and dancer (d. [[1950 in music|1950]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mike Leadbitter|author2=Neil Slaven|title=Blues Records, 1943-1970: A Selective Discography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJdHAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Record Information Services|isbn=978-0-907872-07-8|page=557}}</ref>
** [[Harold Loeffelmacher]], musician and bandleader, [[Six Fat Dutchmen]] (d. 1987)
*[[March 18]] - [[John Kirkpatrick (pianist)|John Kirkpatrick]], American pianist (d.1991)
*[[March 21]] – [[Ivar Haglund]], folksinger and restaurateur (d. [[1985 in music|1985]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historylink.org/File/2499|title=Haglund, Ivar (1905-1985)|author=Paul Dorpat|website=History Link|access-date=2 March 2025}}</ref>
*[[March 22]] - [[Ruth Page (ballerina)|Ruth Page]], dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1991)
*[[March 23]] – [[Lale Andersen]], singer and cabaretist (d. [[1972 in music|1972]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Historic Record & AV Collector Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Cs5AQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=J. R. Wrigley|page=27}}</ref>
*[[April 2]]
**[[Serge Lifar]], Russian choreographer and dancer (d. [[1976 in music|1976]])
**[[Kurt Herbert Adler]], Austrian conductor (d. [[1988 in music|1988]])
*[[April 3]] - [[Lili Kraus]], Hungarian pianist (d. [[1986 in music|1986]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Alan Rawsthorne]], composer (d. 1971)
*[[May 4]] - [[Mátyás Seiber]], Hungarian composer (d.1960)
*[[May 7]] – [[Bumble Bee Slim]], American [[Piedmont blues]] singer, guitarist (d. [[1968 in music|1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mike Leadbitter|author2=Neil Slaven|title=Blues Records, 1943-1970: A Selective Discography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJdHAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Record Information Services|isbn=978-0-907872-07-8|page=387}}</ref>
*[[May 8]] – [[Red Nichols]], US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book|title=Jazz research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNMJAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Universal Edition|isbn=978-3-201-01889-0|page=55}}</ref>
*[[May 10]] – [[Louis Kaufman]], American violinist (d. 1994)
*[[May 11]] – [[Kansas Joe McCoy]], American [[Delta blues]] musician, songwriter (d. [[1950 in music|1950]])<ref name="Santelli2001">{{cite book|author=Robert Santelli|title=The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGwZAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-100145-6|page=324}}</ref>
*[[May 24]] - [[Sascha Gorodnitzki]], pianist (d. 1986)
*[[June 4]] - [[José Echániz]], Cuban-American pianist (d. 1969)
*[[June 6]] - [[Arthur Mendel]], music scholar and musicologist (d. 1979)
*[[June 13]] – [[Doc Cheatham]], US jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
*[[June 18]]
**[[Eduard Tubin]], [[Estonia]]n composer (d. 1982)
**[[Leonid Lavrovsky]], Soviet dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1967)
*[[June 23]] – [[Jesús Bal y Gay]], Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist (d. [[1993 in music|1993]])
*[[July 7]] 
** [[:es:Charlo|Charlo]], Argentine singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer (d. [[1990 in music|1990]])
** [[Max Rostal]], Austrian-British violinist (d. [[1991 in music|1991]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Ivie Anderson]], US jazz singer (d. 1949)
*[[July 15]] – [[Dorothy Fields]], US lyricist and librettist (d. [[1974 in music|1974]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yhc5AAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=45}}</ref>
*[[August 2]] – [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]], composer (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite book|author=Guy Rickards|title=Hindemith, Hartman and Henze|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BcAHAQAAMAAJ|date=19 October 1995|publisher=Phaidon Press|isbn=978-0-7148-3174-9|page=22}}</ref>
*[[August 8]] – [[André Jolivet]], composer (d. [[1974 in music|1974]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Cleveland Orchestra|title=Program|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6Y5AAAAIAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Musical Arts Association|page=441}}</ref>
*[[August 23]] – [[Constant Lambert]], composer (d. 1951)<ref>{{cite book|author1=South London Art Gallery|author2=Constant Lambert|title=Constant Lambert, 1905-1951: A Souvenir of the Exhibition at the South London Art Gallery, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH, 17 September-7 October 1976 ....|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3g9AQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=London Borough of Southwark Council|isbn=978-0-9500243-9-4|page=5}}</ref>
*[[August 29]] – [[Jack Teagarden]], jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. [[1964 in music|1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_espAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512800-0|page=416}}</ref>
*[[October 4]] – [[Léon Orthel]], composer and pianist (d. [[1985 in music|1985]])
*[[October 18]] -[[Fritz Feldmann (musicologist)|Fritz Feldmann]], musicologist (d. 1984)
*[[October 23]] - [[Alexander Melik-Pashayev]], Georgian conductor (d. [[1964 in music|1964]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Poston]], English composer, pianist and writer (d. [[1987 in music|1987]])
*[[November 7]] – [[William Alwyn]], composer (d. [[1985 in music|1985]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ian Johnson|title=William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srcFSKX9pJMC&pg=PA11|year=2005|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-159-4|pages=11–}}</ref>
*[[November 12]] - [[Arthur Hedley]], English musicologist (d.1969)
*[[November 15]] – [[Mantovani|Annunzio Mantovani]] Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. [[1980 in music|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4ARAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512793-5}}</ref>
*[[November 19]] – [[Tommy Dorsey]], jazz trombonist and brother of [[Jimmy Dorsey]] (d. 1956)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxRAAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Barrie & Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-20480-7|page=21}}</ref>
*[[November 21]] – [[Ted Ray (comedian)|Ted Ray]], comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
*[[November 24]] – [[Harry Barris]], US singer, composer and pianist (d. 1962)
*[[December 7]] – [[Charles Magnante]], accordionist, composer, arranger, author, and educator (d. 1986)
*[[December 8]] – [[Ernst Hermann Meyer]], German (later East German) musicologist and composer (d. 1988)
*[[December 31]] – [[Jule Styne]], composer (d. [[1994 in music|1994]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Steven Suskin|title=Show Tunes, 1905-1991: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers: Revised and Expanded|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Limelight Editions|isbn=978-0-87910-146-6|page=374}}</ref>