Editing 1905 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.

==Specific locations==
*[[1905 in Norwegian music]]

==Events==
*[[January 6]] – Première of [[Leoš Janáček]]'s piano cycle ''[[On an Overgrown Path]]'' ''(Po zarostlém chodníčku)'' at the "Besední dům" Hall in [[Brno]].
*[[January 8]] - [[Florent Schmitt]]'s symphonic poem ''Le Palais hante'' [The Haunted Palace], based on a story by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], is premièred at the [[Orchestre Lamoureux]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerry Edwin Rife|title=A Study of the Early Twentieth-century Compositional Style of Florent Schmitt Based on an Examination of Psaume XLVII and La Tragédie de Salomé|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1X2xdEfkCAC|year=1986|publisher=Michigan State University. School of Music|page=17}}</ref>
*[[January 26]] – [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s symphonic poem ''[[Pelleas und Melisande]]'' is premièred in [[Vienna]].
*[[January 29]] – [[Gustav Mahler]]'s ''[[Kindertotenlieder]]'' is premiered in [[Vienna]].
*[[February 2]] - The Moscov paper ''Nashi Dni'' publishes an open letter signed by 29 prominent Moscov musicians, including [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff]], [[Feodor Chaliapin|Chaliapin]], [[Reinhold Glière|Gliere]], calling for basic reforms in Russia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Boris Schwarz|title=Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2A46AAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-65264-6|page=3}}</ref>
*[[February 5]] - [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]'s ''[[Cello Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)|Concerto No.2 in D Minor]]'' for Cello and Orchestra premieres in Paris
*[[February 10]] - German conductor [[Felix Weingartner]] conducts for the first time in America with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=Musicians Since 1900: Performers in Concert and Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VV0YAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0565-2|page=944}}</ref>
*[[February 14]] - [[Jules Massenet]]'s opera ''[[Cherubin]]'' premiers in Monte Carlo.
*[[February 25]] - ''Concerto for Dubble Bass and Orchestra'' by [[Serge Koussevitzky]] is premièred in Moscow, with the composer as soloist.
*[[February 27]] - The ballet ''My Lady Nicotine'', with music by [[George W. Byng]], is produced at the [[Alhambra Theatre]], London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ivor Guest|title=Ballet in Leicester Square: The Alhambra and the Empire, 1860-1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdiBAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Dance Books|isbn=978-1-85273-034-5|page=151}}</ref>
*[[March 4]] - ''[[Violin Concerto (Glazunov)|Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra]]'', Op.82, by [[Alexander Glazunov]], receives its world première in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting.
*[[March 8]] - [[Edward Elgar]]'s ''[[Introduction and Allegro (Elgar)|Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra]]'' and ''[[Pomp and Circumstance Marches|Pomp and Circumstance No.3]]'' are premièred as the composer conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
*[[March 12]] - [[Ottorino Respighi]]'s first opera ''[[Re Enzo (opera)|Re Enzo]]'' receives its initial performance in Bologna.
*[[March 16]] - [[Pietro Mascagni]]'s lyric drama ''[[Amica (opera)|Amica]]'' is premièred at the Theatre du Casino, Monte Carlo.
*[[March 19]] - [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] is dismissed from the faculty of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory for supporting students who went on strike demanding reforms.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov|title=My Musical Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GokAQAAMAAJ|year=1923|publisher=A. A. Knopf|page=371}}</ref>
*[[March 27]] - A performance of [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s ''[[Kashchey the Deathless]]'' becomes the scene of heated public demonstration as a result of recent events at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
*[[April 14]] - [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]'s three-act comic opera ''Die Heirat wider Willen'' receives its initial performance at the Royal Opera in Berlin.
*[[April 15]] - The Consertvatory of Geneva gives the first public demonstration os [[Émile Jaques-Dalcroze]]'s ''[[Dalcroze eurhythmics|eurythmics]]''.
*[[April 30]] - [[Louis Coerne]] is awarded a Ph.D.for his dissertation ''The Evolution of Modern Orchestration''.
*[[May 25]] - [[Emile Jaques-Dalcroze]]'s opera ''Onkel Dazumal'' is produced in Cologne
*[[May 29]] - [[Alexander Scriabin]]'s [[Symphony No. 3 (Scriabin)|Symphony No.3 in C Major]], ''The Divine Poem'', Op.43, is performed for the first time by [[Arthur Nikisch]] in Paris.
*[[June 26]] - [[Gabriel Faure]] succeeds [[Theodore Dubois]] as director of the Paris Conservatoire
*September – The lyrics of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s song "[[Amar Shonar Bangla]]" are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
*[[September 8]] - Double-bass virtuoso [[Serge Koussevitzky]] maries Natalie Ushkov, the daughter of a wealthy tea merchant 
*[[September 29]] - [[George Whitefield Chadwick]]'s symphonic poem ''Cleopatra'' premieres at the [[Worcester Music Festival, Massachusetts|Worcester Music Festival]] in Massachusetts 
*October – The [[Opéra national de Lorraine|opera house at Nancy]], France, is destroyed by fire.
*[[October 4]] - [[Enrico Caruso]], now in Vienna, denies claims of music critics in Budapest that he "had to have morphine injected" when he sang in Budapest
*[[October 8]] - [[Max Reger]]'s ''Sinfonietta in A Major'', Op.90 is premiered by [[Felix Mottl]] in Essen
*[[October 11]] – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the [[Juilliard School]], opens in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.juilliard.edu/school/brief-history|title=A Brief History|publisher=Juilliard School|accessdate=2019-05-10}}</ref>
*[[October 15]] – [[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[La Mer (Debussy)|La Mer]]'' is premiered in [[Paris]] as [[Camille Chevillard]] conducts the [[Lamoureux Orchestra]].
*[[October 19]] - A revised final version of [[Jean Sibelius]]' [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin concerto in D Minor]], Op.47, premieres in Berlin with [[Carl Halir]] as soloist.
*[[October 21]]
** [[Henry J. Wood|Henry Wood]] first conducts a performance of his ''[[Fantasia on British Sea Songs]]'' at a [[Trafalgar Day]] concert in London.
** [[Turandot Suite]], by Ferruccio Busoni, receives its first performance in Berlin.
*[[October 29]] - The first concert of the New Symphony Orchestra of London occurs at the [[Coronet Theatre, London|Coronet Theater]], London
*[[Otto Klemperer]] meets [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]] for the first time, while conducting one of his works.
*[[December 1]] - The first opera by an American composer ever to be staged in Europe is produced in Bremen. It is the three-act opera ''Zenobia'', by [[Louis Adolphe Coerne]].
*[[December 5]] - [[Alexander Glazunov]] is elected director of the [[Saint Petersburg Conservatory]]
*[[December 9]] - [[Richard Strauss]]'s one-act musical drama ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' receives its initial performance at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden.
*[[December 26]] - [[Charles-Marie Widor]]'s four-act opera ''Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean'' receives its first performance at the Opera-Comique in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|title=Organists' Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWsIAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Incorporated Association of Organists|page=21}}</ref>
*[[December 28]] - ''[[Die lustige Witwe]]'' by [[Franz Lehar]], receives its first performance in Vienna.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Harris Olander|title=The Meilhac-Halévy Libretti for Offenbach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOJRAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|page=287}}</ref>

==Published popular music==
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* "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
* "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
* "Bandana Land" by [[Glen MacDonough]]
* "Bethena" m. Scott Joplin
* "Bink's Waltz" m. Scott Joplin
* "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
* "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
* "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
* "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
* "[[College Life (song)|College Life]]" m. Hery Frantzen
* "[[Come Clean (rag)|Come Clean]]" by [[Paul Sarebresole]]
* "Daddy's Little Girl" w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. [[Theodore F. Morse]]
* "Dearie" w.m. [[Clare Kummer]]
* "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. [[Monroe Rosenfeld]] m. John A. Heinzman & Otto Milton Heinzman (1873–1943)
* "[[Everybody Works But Father]]" w.m. [[Jean Havez]]
* "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. [[William Jerome]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. [[George M. Cohan]] from the [[Forty-five Minutes from Broadway|musical]] of the same name.
* "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
* "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
* "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
* "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. [[Will D. Cobb]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. [[William Jerome]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. [[Harry von Tilzer]]
* "Happy Heine" m. [[J. Bodewalt Lampe]]
* "He's Me Pal" w. [[Vincent P. Bryan]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
* "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "I Don't Care" w. [[Jean Lenox]] m. Harry O. Sutton
* "I Love A Lassie" w. [[Harry Lauder]] & George Grafton m. [[Harry Lauder]]
* "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
* "I Thought It Was My Birthday Come" w.m. T.W. Connor
* "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. [[Will D. Cobb]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. [[Andrew B. Sterling]] m. [[Harry von Tilzer]]
* "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
* "In Dear Old Georgia" w. [[Harry H. Williams|Harry Williams]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "[[In My Merry Oldsmobile]]" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "[[In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree]]" w. [[Harry H. Williams]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "The Irish Girl I Love" w. [[George V. Hobart]] m. Max Hoffmann
* "Is Everybody Happy?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
* "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
* "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse<ref>{{cite book|title=Variety Radio Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_845AQAAIAAJ|year=1938|publisher=Variety, Incorporated|page=144}}</ref>
* "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Kiss Me Again" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Leola" m. Scott Joplin
* "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
* "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. [[George M. Cohan]].  From the musical ''[[Forty-five Minutes from Broadway]]''.
* "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "My Gal Sal" w.m. [[Paul Dresser]]
* "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
* "My Irish Molly O" w. [[William Jerome]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "[[Nellie Dean]]" [[Henry W. Armstrong]]
* "[[Nobody (1905 song)|Nobody]]" w. [[Alex Rogers (songwriter)|Alex Rogers]] m. [[Bert A. Williams]]
* "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. [[William Jerome]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. [[Andrew B. Sterling]] m. [[Harry von Tilzer]]
* "[[Parade Of The Tin Soldiers]]" later known as "[[Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers]]" m. [[Leon Jessel]]
* "Peaches And Cream" m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
* "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "Put Me In My Little Cell" w [[P.G. Wodehouse]], m [[Frederick Rosse]]
* "Ramblin' Sam" w. [[Harry H. Williams]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
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* "Say Yes, Honey, Do" by Sara E. Posey
* "She Is My Daisy" w.m. [[Harry Lauder]] & J. D. Harper
* "Silence And Fun" Mullen
* "Since Nellie Went Away" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
* "So Long Mary" w.m. [[George M. Cohan]]
* "Tammany" w. [[Vincent P. Bryan]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
* "[[Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie]]" w. [[Andrew B. Sterling]] m. [[Harry Von Tilzer]]
* "Waiting At The Church" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
* "Waltzing With The Girl You Love" w.m. [[George "Honey Boy" Evans|George Evans]] & [[Ren Shields]]
* "When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
* "Where The River Shannon Flows" w.m. James J. Russell
* "The Whistler And His Dog" m. [[Arthur Pryor]]
* "The Whole Damm Family" Smith, Von Tilzer<ref name="BurtonFreeman1969">{{cite book|author1=Jack Burton|author2=Larry Freeman|title=The Blue Book of Broadway Musicals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYgYAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Century House|isbn=978-0-87282-012-8|page=74}}</ref>
* "Why Don't You Try?" w. [[Harry H. Williams]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "Will You Love Me In December" w. [[Jimmy Walker|James J. Walker]] m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" w. Harry B. Smith m. [[Victor Herbert]]

==Recorded popular music==
* "I Love A Lassie" by [[Harry Lauder]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Martland|title=Since Records Began: EMI, the First 100 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hfg5AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-033-2|page=64}}</ref>
* "Yankee Doodle Boy" by Billy Murray
* "Give My Regards To Broadway" by Billy Murray
* "In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Billy Murray

==Classical music==
*[[Hugo Alfvén]] – Symphony No. 3 in E major
*[[Claude Debussy]] 
** ''[[La mer (Debussy)|La mer]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jane F. Fulcher|author2=Professor of Musicology Jane Fulcher|author3=Princeton University Press|title=Debussy and His World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDcOwiD4h6MC&pg=PA144|year=2001|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-09042-4|pages=144}}</ref>
** ''[[Suite bergamasque]]'' (revised)<ref>{{cite book|author=Simon Trezise|title=The Cambridge Companion to French Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mp2BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|date=19 February 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-87794-7|pages=149}}</ref>
*[[Edward Elgar]] – ''[[Introduction and Allegro (Elgar)|Introduction and Allegro for Strings]]''
*[[George Enescu]] – [[Symphony No. 1 (Enescu)|Symphony No. 1]] in E-flat major, Op. 13
*[[Gabriel Fauré]] – [[Piano Quintet No. 1 (Fauré)|Piano Quintet No. 1]] in D minor, Op. 89
*[[Leoš Janáček]] – [[1. X. 1905|Piano Sonata ''1.X.1905'']]
*[[Reynaldo Hahn]] – ''[[Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este]]'', suite for wind instruments, two harps and piano
*[[Serge Koussevitzky]] - ''Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra''
*[[Nikolai Medtner]] – ''Fairy Tales for Piano'' (Opp. 8, 9)
*[[Carl Nielsen]] – ''[[Søvnen]]'' (The Sleep)
*[[Vítězslav Novák]] – Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
*[[Helena Munktell]] – Violin Sonata, Op.21
*[[Ole Olsen (musician)|Ole Olsen]] – Trombone Concerto
*[[Maurice Ravel]] – ''[[Introduction and Allegro (Ravel)|Introduction et Allegro]]'', for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
*[[Emil von Reznicek]]
**Nachtstück
**Präludium und chromatische Fuge
**Symphony No.2 in B-flat major "Ironic"
*[[Albert Roussel]] – Conte à la poupée, L.5
*[[Camille Saint-Saëns]] – [[Cello Sonata No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)|Cello Sonata No. 2]]
*[[Arnold Schoenberg]] – [[String quartets (Schoenberg)|String Quartet No. 1]], Op.&nbsp;7 in D minor.
*[[Jean Sibelius]] – ''[[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto]]'' (Op. 47)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vkIWs6nvRs8C&q=tempest+sibelius&pg=PA170|author=Andrew Barnett|title=Sibelius|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2007|page=172|isbn=978-0300111590}}</ref>
*[[Emil Sjögren]] 
**Poème, Op.40
**Piano Sonata No.2, Op.44
*[[Anton Webern]] –
**''Langsamer Satz'', for string quartet
**String Quartet in one movement
*[[Haydn Wood]] – ''Phantasy String Quartet''

==[[Opera]]==
*[[Frederick Converse]] – ''The Pipe of Desire''
*[[Leo Fall]] – ''Irrlicht''
*[[Manuel de Falla]] – ''La Vida breve'' (libretto by Fernández Shaw)
*[[Franz Lehár]] 
**''Die Lustige Witwe ([[The Merry Widow]])'' (Libretto by [[Victor Léon]] and [[Leo Stein]], after the play ''L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché'') by [[Henri Meilhac]])
**''[[Tatjana (opera)|Tatjana]]'', premiered February 21 in Brünn
*[[Jules Massenet]] – ''Chérubin''  (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
*[[Leopoldo Mugnone]] – ''Vita Bretone''
*[[Richard Strauss]] – ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' (Libretto by [[Hedwig Lachmann]], from the play by [[Oscar Wilde]])

==[[Musical theater]]==
*''[[The Babes and the Baron]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Lyric Theatre (1903 New York City)|Lyric Theatre]] on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
*''[[The Catch of the Season]]'' Broadway production opened at [[Daly's Theatre]] on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
* ''[[The Earl and the Girl]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
* ''[[Fantana (musical)|Fantana]]'' [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] production opened at the [[Lyric Theatre (1903 New York City)|Lyric Theatre]] on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
* ''[[Lifting the Lid]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Aerial Gardens Theatre]] on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
* ''[[Die lustige Witwe]]'' (''[[The Merry Widow]]'') Vienna production, December 28
* ''[[Miss Dolly Dollars]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on September 4 and moved to the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
* ''[[Mlle. Modiste]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
* ''[[The Rogers Brothers in Ireland]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Liberty Theatre (New York, New York)|Liberty Theatre]] on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
* ''[[The Rollicking Girl]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Herald Square Theatre]] on May 1 and transferred to the [[Olympia Theatre (New York)|New York Theatre]] on April 16, 1906, for a total run of 199 performances
* ''[[Sergeant Brue]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
* ''[[The Spring Chicken]]'' London production opened at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]] on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
*''[[When We Were Forty-One]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[New York Roof Theatre]] on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
*''[[Wonderland (musical)|Wonderland]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|Majestic Theatre]] on October 24 and ran for 73 performances

==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>

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Theodore Thomas (conductor)|Theodore Thomas]], conductor (b. 1835)
*[[January 5]] – [[Belle Cole]], operatic contralto (b. 1845)<ref>{{cite book|author=E. Douglas Bomberger|title=Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hx3fH94Z7HcC&pg=PA69|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30782-9|pages=69}}</ref>
*[[January 10]] – [[Kārlis Baumanis]], composer (b. 1835)
*[[January 22]] – [[Alfred Dörffel]], German pianist (born 1821)
*[[February 10]] – [[Ignacy Krzyżanowski]], composer (b. 1826)
*[[February 12]] – [[Edward Dannreuther]], pianist (b. 1844)<ref>{{cite book|author=Randel Don|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA196|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=196}}</ref>
*[[March 15]] – [[Luigi Manzotti]], choreographer (b. 1835)
*[[April 12]] – [[Giuseppe Gariboldi]], flautist and composer (b. 1833)
*[[April 29]] – [[Ignacio Cervantes]], pianist and composer (b. 1847)
*[[May 5]] – [[Ernst Pauer]], pianist (b. 1826)
*[[May 13]] – [[Sam S. Shubert]], Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
*[[May 14]] – [[Jessie Bartlett Davis]], operatic contralto (b. 1859)
*[[May 15]] – [[Andrey Schulz-Evler]], composer and arranger (b. 1852)
*[[May 31]] – [[Franz Strauss]], musician and composer, father of [[Richard Strauss]] (b. 1822)
*[[July 8]] – [[Walter Kittredge]], self-taught musician and composer (b. 1834)<ref>{{cite book|author=George Calvin Carter|title=Walter Kittredge, Minstrel of the Merrimack|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo-fAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=George Calvin Carter|page=123}}</ref>
*[[August 25]] – [[:de:Felix vom Rath|Felix vom Rath]], composer (born 1866)
*[[August 28]] – [[Yannis Apostolou]], Greek tenor who performed widely in Italy under the name Giovanni Apostolu (b. 1860) 
*[[August 31]] – [[Francesco Tamagno]], operatic tenor (b. 1850)<ref>{{cite book|author=James F. E. Dennis|title=The Record Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDxGAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Record Collector|page=13}}</ref>
*[[September 22]] – [[Célestine Marié]], mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1837)
*[[October 18]] – [[Emmie Owen]], opera singer (b. 1871)
*[[December 9]] – [[Henry Holmes (composer)|Henry Holmes]], composer and violinist (b. [[1839 in music|1839]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Maggie Humphreys|author2=Robert Evans|title=Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|date=1 January 1997|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7201-2330-2|pages=166}}</ref>

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