Editing 1911 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911.

==Specific locations==
*[[1911 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1911 in jazz]]

==Events==
*[[January 26]] – Première of the opera ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]], in [[Dresden]]; the librettist is [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]] and the director is [[Max Reinhardt]].
*[[February 21]] – [[Gustav Mahler]], who has contracted [[bacterial endocarditis]] and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the [[New York Philharmonic]], of which he has been principal conductor since 1909.
*[[April 3]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the world première of his [[Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 4]] in [[Helsinki]].
*[[April 8]] – [[Gustav Mahler]] embarks from New York for France; he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later.
*[[May 19]] – [[Maurice Ravel]]'s opera ''[[L'heure espagnole]]'' is premiered at the [[Opéra-Comique]] in Paris, in a double bill with [[Jules Massenet]]'s 1907 opera ''[[Thérèse (opera)|Thérèse]]''.
*[[May 24]] – [[Edward Elgar]] conducts the première of his [[Symphony No. 2 (Elgar)|Symphony No. 2]] in [[London]].
*[[June 15]] – [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ballet ''[[Petrushka]]'' is premiered in Paris; the lead dancer is [[Vaslav Nijinsky]].
*July – [[Frank Bridge]] completes his orchestral suite ''[[The Sea (Bridge)|The Sea]]'', while staying at Eastbourne.<ref>[http://www.musicaltoronto.org/2012/08/09/introducing-the-sea-a-suite-for-orchestra-by-frank-bridge/ Musical Toronto]; Retrieved 3 September 2013</ref>
*[[November 20]] – [[Gustav Mahler]]'s ''[[Das Lied von der Erde]]'' is premièred in [[Munich]], after the composer's death, with his friend and former assistant [[Bruno Walter]] conducting at the request of [[Alma Mahler]].<ref>Ryding, Erik; Pechefsky, Rebecca (2006). ''Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere''. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-300-08713-0}}.</ref>
*''date unknown''
**[[Aino Ackté]] and other prominent opera singers found the [[Domestic Opera]] in [[Finland]].
**"[[Elsässisches Fahnenlied]]" is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
**16-year-old [[Carl Orff]] publishes his first compositions.
**The [[Society of Women Musicians]] is co-founded by [[Marion Scott (musicologist)|Marion Scott]] and others.<ref>Sophie Fuller. "Society of Women Musicians", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 12, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).</ref>
[[Image:TheyAlwaysPickOnMe1911.jpg|right]]

==Published popular music==
* "After That I Want A Little More" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "After The Honeymoon" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Alexander's Ragtime Band]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "All Alone" w. [[William Dillon]] m. [[Harry Von Tilzer]]
* "[[Any Old Iron (song)|Any Old Iron]]" w.m. Charles Collins & Terry Sheppard
* "Baby Rose" by [[Louis Weslyn]]
* "[[Billy (I Always Dream of Bill)|Billy]]" w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
* "Bring Back My Lovin' Man" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" w.m. [[Thurland Chattaway]]
* "[[Core 'ngrato]]" w. Riccardo Cordiferro, m. [[Salvatore Cardillo]]<ref>Kati's Story: Recollections of Two Worlds – Page 84 Catherine Veres – 2009  "Core 'ngrato, a Neapolitan song written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso by Salvatore Cardillo (1874–1947)"{{Clarify|date=November 2017}}<!--Who is the author? What is the title? Is this a book, a newspaper article, or what?--></ref>
* "Down Home Rag" m. [[Wilbur Sweatman]]
* "Down The Field" w. Caleb O'Connor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman
* "[[El Choclo]]" w. Francice Luban m. Angel G. Villoldo
* "Everybody's Doing it Now" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[The Firebird]]" m. [[Igor Stravinsky]]
* "[[The Floral Dance]]" w.m. [[Katie Moss]]
* "[[The Gaby Glide]]" w. [[Harry Pilcer]] m. [[Louis Hirsch]]
* "Honey Love" w. [[Jack Drislane]] m. [[George W. Meyer]]
* "Honeysuckle Rag" m. [[George Botsford]]
* "[[I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)]]" w. [[William Dillon]] m. [[Harry Von Tilzer]]
* "I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as ""I'm Going Back To Dixie") w.m. [[Irving Berlin]] & [[Ted Snyder]]
* "If Every Hour Were A Day" w. [[Anna Driver]] m. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]]
* "In The Land Of Harmony" w. [[Bert Kalmar]] m. [[Ted Snyder]]
* "Jimmy Valentine" w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "The Little Grey Home In The West" w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m. [[Hermann Löhr]]
* "Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "Mary O'Hoolihan" Berlin
* "[[On Moonlight Bay (song)|(On) Moonlight Bay]]" w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
* "Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" w. [[Bert Kalmar]] m. [[Ted Snyder]]
* "My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" w. [[C. M. S. McLellan]] m. Ivan Caryll
* "My Hula Hula Love" w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
[[File:Sheet music cover - NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY (1911).jpg|thumb|upright|Cover of sheet music for Naughty, Naughty, Naughty]]
* "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" w. [[Harry Williams (songwriter)|Harry Williams]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "The Oceana Roll" w. [[Roger Lewis (songwriter)|Roger Lewis]] m. [[Lucien Denni]]
* "[[Oh, You Beautiful Doll]]" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
* "One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Ragtime Violin!" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Red Rose Rag" w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
* "[[Roamin' In The Gloamin']]" w.m. [[Harry Lauder]]
* "Run Home And Tell Your Mother" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Sarnia Cherie]]" (anthem of Guernsey) w. George Deighton, m. Domenico Santangelo 
* "[[Somewhere a Voice is Calling]]" w. Eileen Newton m. Arthur F. Tate
* "[[The Spaniard That Blighted My Life]]" w.m. [[Billy Merson]]
* "Spanish Love" [[Irving Berlin]], [[Vincent Bryan]], [[Ted Snyder]]
* "That Hypnotizing Man" w. [[Lew Brown]] m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "That Mysterious Rag" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]], [[Ted Snyder]]
* "That Was Before I Met You" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. George W. Meyer
* "There's A Girl In Havana" [[Irving Berlin]], E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
* "They Always Pick On Me" by [[Harry Von Tilzer]] and [[Stanley Murphy]]
* "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" w. George Graff Jr m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "To The Land Of My Own Romance" w. Harry B. Smith m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "[[Too Much Mustard]]" m. Cecil Macklin
* "Virginia Lou" [[Irving Berlin]], Earl Taylor
* "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" w.m. Gerald Grafton & [[Harry Lauder]]
* "When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" w. [[Harry Williams (songwriter)|Harry Williams]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]] & [[Ted Snyder]]
* "When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" w. [[Edgar Leslie]] m. [[Lewis F. Muir]]
* "When You Kiss An Italian Girl" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "When You're Away" w. [[A. Seymour Brown]] & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
* "When You're In Town" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "The Whistling Rag" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]] & [[Vincent Bryan]]
* "Yiddisha Nightingale" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "You've Got Me Hypnotized" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]

==Hit recordings==
* "[[Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me]]" – [[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]]
* "[[Let Me Call You Sweetheart]]" - the [[Peerless Quartet]]
* "Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man" – [[Nora Bayes]] and [[Jack Norworth]]

==Classical music==
*[[Joseph Achron]] – ''Hebrew Melody''
*[[Lili Boulanger]] – ''Les Sirènes''
*[[Frank Bridge]] – ''[[The Sea (Bridge)|The Sea]]''
*[[George Butterworth]] – ''Two English Idylls''
*[[George Whitefield Chadwick]] – Suite Symphonique
*[[Eric Coates]] – ''Miniature Suite''
*[[Frederick Delius]] – ''Summer Night on the River''
*[[George Enescu]] –
**Sonata for violin and piano, in A minor (first-movement "Torso")
**''Suite châtelaine'', for orchestra (unfinished)
*[[Carl Engel]] – Sea-Shell
*[[Reinhold Glière]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Glière)|Symphony No. 3]] ''Ilya Murometz'' (completed)
*[[Enrique Granados]] – ''[[Goyescas]]''
*[[Reynaldo Hahn]] – ''Aubade athénienne''
*[[Gustav Holst]] 
**Invocation for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 19/2
**Second Suite in F, for military band
**2 Eastern Pictures, H. 112
*[[Charles Ives]] – Requiem S. 333
*[[Paul von Klenau]] – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
*[[Nikolai Medtner]] – Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
*[[Nikolai Myaskovsky]]
**Sinfonietta in A
**Symphony No. 2
**Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945).
*[[Carl Nielsen]] – [[Violin Concerto (Nielsen)|Concerto for Violin and Orchestra]]
*[[Arnold Schoenberg]] – ''[[Sechs kleine Klavierstücke]]''
*[[Alexander Scriabin]]
**[[Piano Sonata No. 6 (Scriabin)|Piano Sonata No. 6]]
**[[Piano Sonata No. 7 (Scriabin)|Piano Sonata No. 7]]
*[[Cyril Scott]] 
**An Old Song Ended
**Water-Wagtail, Op.71 No.3
**Tallahassee, Op.73 No.4
*[[Ethel Smyth]] – ''[[The March of the Women]]''
*[[John Philip Sousa]] – ''Tales of a Traveler''
*[[Charles Villiers Stanford]]
**Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124
**Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126
*[[Igor Stravinsky]]
**''[[The Firebird]]'' Suite No. 1
**''[[Petrushka (ballet)|Petrushka]]''
**''Two Poems of K. Balmont'', for voice and piano
*[[Amy Woodforde-Finden]] – "Stars of the Desert"

==Opera==
*[[Béla Bartók]] – ''[[Bluebeard's Castle]]'' (first version composed; revised 1912 and 1917; not staged until 1918)
*[[Scott Joplin]] – ''[[Treemonisha]]'' (composed; not staged until 1972)
*[[Maurice Ravel]] – ''L'Heure Espagnole''
*[[Richard Strauss]] – ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'', Dresden

==Operetta==
* ''Leányvásár ([[The Marriage Market]])'' – [[Victor Jacobi]]

==Musical theater==
* ''[[The Count of Luxembourg]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at [[Daly's Theatre]] on May 20 and ran for 340 performances
* ''[[The Fascinating Widow]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Liberty Theatre]] on September 11 and transferred to the [[Pike's Opera House|Grand Opera House]] on November 13 for a total run of 65 performances.  Starring [[Julian Eltinge]], [[Winona Winter]], [[Natalia Ault]] and Eddie Garvie.
* ''[[Gypsy Love (musical)|Gypsy Love]]'' (''[[Zigeunerliebe]]'') opened in Berlin.  The Broadway production opened at the [[Globe Theatre]] on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
* ''Der Lila Domino'' (''[[Lilac Domino]]'') – Leipzig production
* ''[[Madame Sherry]]'' [[American Musical Theater|New York]]
* ''[[Marriage a la Carte]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
* ''[[Peggy (musical)|Peggy]]'', by [[Leslie Stuart]], with a book by [[George Grossmith, Jr.]] and lyrics by [[C. H. Bovill]],<ref>Culme, John. [http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveTextPQ/PeggyGaiety1911.html "Footlight Notes, no. 277"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928135022/http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveTextPQ/PeggyGaiety1911.html |date=2011-09-28 }}. 4 January 2002, accessed 11 August 2010</ref> London production opens at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]] under the management of [[George Edwardes]], on 4 March, and runs for 270 performances, starring Grossmith, [[Edmund Payne]], [[Phyllis Dare]] and [[Gabrielle Ray]]
* ''[[The Pink Lady (musical)|The Pink Lady]]'' [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on March 13 and ran for 312 performances
* ''[[The Quaker Girl]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Majestic Theatre (Columbus Circle)|Park Theatre]] on October 23 and ran for 240 performances
* ''[[The Revue of Revues]]'' Broadway [[revue]] opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on September 27 and ran for 55 performances.  Starring [[Gaby Deslys]], [[Harry Jolson]], [[Ernie Hare]] and [[Frank Tinney]].
* ''Die Sirene'' by [[Leo Fall]], based on a text by [[Leo Stein (writer)|Leo Stein]] and [[A. M. Willner]], first performed in Vienna on 5 January.
* ''[[The Siren (musical)|The Siren]]'', a Broadway musical adaptation of ''Die Sirene'' is produced in [[New York City|New York]] by [[Charles Frohman]] and runs at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] from 28 August 1911 to 16 December (116 performances).

==Births==
*[[January 10]] – [[Sidney Griller]], violinist and founder of the [[Griller Quartet]] (d. 1993)
*[[January 18]] 
**[[Gábor Darvas]], composer (d. 1985)
**[[Danny Kaye]], actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
*[[January 20]]
**[[Roy Eldridge]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1989)
**[[Wendell J. Westcott]], American [[carillon]] player and educator (d. 2010)
*[[January 24]] 
**[[Evelyn Barbirolli]], English oboist (d. 2008)
**[[Muir Mathieson]], Scottish conductor and composer (d. 1975)
*[[February 3]] – [[Jehan Alain]], organist and composer (d. 1940)
*[[February 5]] – [[Jussi Björling]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] tenor (d. 1960)
*[[February 11]] – [[Wesley Rose]], record producer (d. 1990)
*[[February 17]] – [[Orrin Tucker]], American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2011)
*[[February 20]] – [[Robert McBride (composer)|Robert McBride]], composer (d. 2007)
*[[March 7]] – [[Stefan Kisielewski]], Polish composer (d. 1991)
*[[March 8]] – [[Alan Hovhaness]], composer (d. 2000)
*[[March 9]] – [[Clara Rockmore]], born Clara Reisenberg, [[theremin]]ist and violinist (d. 1998)
*[[March 16]] – [[Harper Goff]], Disney special effects man and Dixieland musician (d. 1993)
*[[March 18]] – [[Smiley Burnette]], singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
*[[April 6]] – [[Guillermo Portabales]], singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
*[[April 8]] – [[Ichirō Fujiyama]], Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
*[[May 8]] 
**[[Robert Johnson]], blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
**[[Blanche Winogron]], harpsichordist (d. 2002)
*[[May 13]] – [[Maxine Sullivan]], singer (d. 1987)
*[[May 14]] – [[Hans Vogt (composer)|Hans Vogt]], composer and conductor (d. [[1992 in music|1992]])
*[[May 18]] – [[Big Joe Turner]], blues shouter (d. 1985)
*[[May 20]] – Vet Boswell of the [[Boswell Sisters]] singing group (d. 1988)
*[[June 4]] – [[Faustino Oramas]], Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer (d. [[2007 in music|2007]])
*[[June 9]] – [[Frederick May (composer)|Frederick May]], Irish composer (d. 1985)
*[[June 24]] – [[Portia White]], contralto singer (d. 1968)
*[[June 29]] – [[Bernard Herrmann]], film composer (d. 1975)
*[[July 4]] – [[Mitch Miller]], arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player (d. 2010)
*[[July 7]] – [[Gian Carlo Menotti]], composer (d. 2007)
*[[July 8]] – [[Gertrude Niesen]], American singer, actress, comedian and songwriter (d. [[1975 in music|1975]])
*[[July 16]] – [[Ginger Rogers]], dancer, actress and singer (d. 1995)
*[[July 26]] – [[Buddy Clark]], singer (d. 1949)
*[[July 29]] – [[Ján Cikker]], composer (d. 1989)
*[[July 31]] – [[George Liberace]], violinist and elder brother of [[Liberace]] (d. 1983)
*[[August 5]] – [[Roger Roger (composer)|Roger Roger]], film composer and bandleader (d. 2007)
*[[August 6]] – [[Lucille Ball]], actress and singer (d. 1989)
*[[August 26]] – [[Deva Dassy]], French opera singer (d. [[2016 in music|2016]])
*[[August 27]] – [[Kay Walsh]], dancer and actress (d. 2005)
*[[September 2]] – [[Floyd Council]], blues musician (d. 1976)
*[[September 11]] – [[Bola de Nieve]], singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1971)
*[[September 19]] – [[Allan Pettersson]], Swedish composer (d. 1980)
*[[September 24]] – [[Marie Kraja]], Albanian operatic and folk singer (d. 1999)
*[[October 1]] – [[Irwin Kostal]], arranger (d. 1994)
*[[October 7]]
**<!--October 7-->[[Shura Cherkassky]], pianist (d. 1995)
**<!--October 7-->[[Vaughn Monroe]], singer and bandleader (d. 1973)
*[[October 24]] – [[Sonny Terry]], blues musician (d. 1986)
*[[October 26]] – [[Mahalia Jackson]], gospel singer (d. 1972)
*[[October 29]] – [[Nelson Cavaquinho]], samba singer and composer (d. [[1986 in music|1986]])
*[[November 5]] – [[Roy Rogers]], singer, actor (d. 1998)
*[[November 30]] – [[Jorge Negrete]], Mexican singer and actor (d. [[1953 in music|1953]])<ref>{{citation|website=El Siglo de Torreón|title=1953: Muere Jorge Negrete, 'El Charro Cantor'|url=https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/814939.1953-muere-jorge-negrete-el-charro-cantor.html|date=December 5, 2012|access-date=August 23, 2019|language=es|trans-title=1953: Jorge Negrete, 'El Charro Cantor,' dies}}</ref>
*[[December 3]] – [[Nino Rota]], composer (d. [[1979 in music|1979]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2149}}</ref>
*[[December 14]] – [[Spike Jones]], bandleader (d. 1965)
*[[December 15]] – [[Stan Kenton]], bandleader (d. [[1979 in music|1979]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0219.html |title=Stan Kenton, Band Leader, Dies; Was Center of Jazz Controversies |first=John S.|last= Wilson |date=August 27, 1979 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 10, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063008/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0219.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
*[[December 17]] – [[André Claveau]], French singer and Eurovision winner (d. [[2003 in music|2003]])
*[[December 25]] – [[Eric Gilder]], musicologist (d. 2000)
*[[December 27]] – [[Anna Russell]], singer and comedian (d. 2006)
*[[December 28]] – [[Max Jaffa]], violinist and bandleader (d. [[1991 in music|1991]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 7]] – [[William Hall Sherwood]], pianist and music educator (b. [[1854 in music|1854]])
*[[January 8]] – [[Pietro Gori]], anarchist poet and songwriter (b. 1865)
*[[January 9]] – [[Edwin Arthur Jones]], composer (b. 1853)
*[[January 16]] – [[Wilhelm Berger]], pianist, conductor and composer (born 1861)
*[[January 28]] – [[Wilhelmina Fundin]], Swedish operatic soprano (b. [[1819 in music|1819]])  
*[[February 1]] – [[Ángel Mislan]], composer (b. 1862)
*[[February 20]] – [[Alexander Kopylov]], violinist and composer (b. 1854)
*[[March 20]] – [[Jean-Théodore Radoux]], bassoonist and composer (b. [[1835 in music|1835]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Alexandre Guilmant]], organist and composer (b. 1837)
*[[April 7]] – [[Willi and Louis Thern|Wilhelm Thern]], pianist (b. [[1847 in music|1847]])
*[[April 10]] – [[Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis]], painter and composer (b. [[1875 in music|1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jolanta Hauser|title=Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis: Zu Leben und Werk eines litauischen Komponisten und Malers|publisher=Diplom.de|year=2002|ISBN=9783832450878|language=de|page=14}}</ref>
*[[April 15]] – [[Wilma Neruda]], violinist (b. [[1838 in music|1838]])
*[[May 4]] – [[Ronald Richardson Potter]], organist and composer (b. [[1879 in music|1879]])
*[[May 5]] – [[James A. Bland]], musician and songwriter (b. 1854)
*[[May 18]] – [[Gustav Mahler]], composer (b. [[1860 in music|1860]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fischer|first1=Jens Malte|last2=Translated by Stewart Spencer|title=Gustav Mahler|date=April 2013|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19411-1|pages=684|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnBj5mrK7moC&pg=PA680}}</ref>
*[[May 29]] – [[W. S. Gilbert]], of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1836)
*[[June 7]] – [[Carlos Fernández Shaw]], librettist (b. 1865)
*[[June 13]] – [[Patrick Heeney]], composer (b. [[1881 in music|1881]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Johan Svendsen]], conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1840)
*[[June 16]] – [[Frank Peabody Atherton]], composer and educator (b. 1868)
*[[June 18]] – [[Franjo Kuhač]], piano teacher, conductor and musicologist (b. 1834)
*[[June 21]] – [[Robert Radecke]], composer (b. [[1830 in music|1830]])
*[[June 22]] – [[Bruno Klein]], organist and composer (b. [[1858 in music|1858]])
*[[July 2]] – [[Felix Mottl]], conductor and composer (b. 1856)
*[[July 3]] – [[Madeline Schiller]], pianist (b. c. 1845)
*[[July 7]] – [[Samuel de Lange]], composer, organist, pianist, conductor and music teacher, director of the Stuttgart music conservatory (b. [[1841 in music|1841]])<ref>[http://www.stichtingdelange.nl/cms/?page_id=1077 Biography] at the ''Stichting DE LANGE'' website</ref>
*[[July 25]] – [[Filippo Capocci]], Italian organist and composer (b. [[1840 in music|1840]])
*[[August 2]]
**[[Bob Cole (composer)|Bob Cole]], composer (b. 1869)
**[[José Joaquín Palma]], lyricist of the national anthem of Guatemala (b. 1884)
*[[August 10]] – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of [[Hans Christian Lumbye]]
*[[August 29]] – [[Hildegard Werner]], Swedish musician, conductor and journalist (b. [[1834 in music|1834]])
*[[October 3]] – [[Paul Sarebresole]], ragtime composer (b. 1875)
*[[October 13]] – [[Harry Rickards]], comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
*[[November 23]] – [[Catalina Berroa]], Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer (b. [[1849 in music|1849]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA60 |title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|isbn=9780393034875|accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref>
*[[December 29]] – [[Rosamund Marriott Watson]], lyricist (born 1860)

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