Editing 1914 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1914.

==Specific locations==
*[[1914 in British music]]
*[[1914 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1914 in jazz]]

==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}}

==Published popular music==
* "[[The Aba Daba Honeymoon]]" w.m. [[Arthur Fields]] & Walter Donovan.  Performed in the [[1951 in music|1951]] film ''[[Two Weeks with Love]]'' by [[Debbie Reynolds]] and [[Carleton Carpenter]]
* "After The Roses Have Faded Away" w. Bessie Buchanan m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "Along Came Ruth" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Always Treat Her Like A Baby" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Back To The Carolina You Love" w. [[Grant Clarke]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Burlington Bertie From Bow" w.m. [[William Hargreaves]]
* "By Heck" w. [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] m. S. R. Henry
* "[[By the Beautiful Sea (song)|By the Beautiful Sea]]" w. [[Harold Atteridge]] m. [[Harry Carroll]]
* "By the Waters of Minnetonka" w. J. M. Cavanass m. [[Thurlow Lieurance]]

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* "California And You" w. [[Edgar Leslie]] m. Harry Puck
* "[[Colonel Bogey March|Colonel Bogey – March]]" m. [[Kenneth J. Alford]]
* "[[La Cucaracha]]" w. (Eng) Stanley Adams m. arr. Juan Y. D'Lorah
* "The Darktown Poker Club" w. Jean C. Havez m. [[Bert Williams]] & [[Will Vodery|Will H. Vodery]]
* "The Day Is Done" w. [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] m. [[Herman Lohr]]
* "Desecration Rag" m. [[Felix Arndt]]
* "[[Down Among The Sheltering Palms]]" w. [[James Brockman]] m. [[Abe Olman]]
* "La Estrellita" m. [[Manuel Ponce]] Also known as "Little Star".
* "Everybody Rag With Me" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Grace Leboy]]
* "Fido Is A Hot Dog Now" w. [[Charles McCarron]] & Thomas J. Gray m. Raymond Walker
* "[[Follow the Crowd (song)|Follow The Crowd]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Gilbert, The Filbert" w. [[Arthur Wimperis]] m. [[Herman Finck]]
* "Goodbye Girls I'm Through" w. John Golden m. [[Ivan Caryll]]
* "He's A Devil In His Own Home Town" w. [[Grant Clarke]] & [[Irving Berlin]] m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "He's A Rag Picker" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]

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* "I Love the Ladies" by [[Grant Clarke]]
* "[[I Want To Go Back To Michigan|I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "I Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You" w. Clifford Harris m. [[James W. Tate]]
* "If I Had You" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "If That's Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "If You Don't Want My Peaches" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "I'll Make A Man Of You" w.m. [[Arthur Wimperis]] & [[Herman Finck]]
* "In The Candlelight" w.m. [[Fleta Jan Brown Spencer|Fleta Jan Brown]]
* "[[Katyusha's song]]" composed by [[Nakayama Shimpei]] is the first big [[kayōkyoku]] (pop music) hit in Japan
* "[[Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song)|Keep the Home Fires Burning]]" w. Lena Guilbert Ford m. [[Ivor Novello]]
* "Land" by [[Irving Berlin]]
* "A Little Bit Of Heaven Sure They Call It Ireland" w. [[J. Keirn Brennan]] m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by [[Byron Gay]] & [[C.R. Foster]]
* "Love's Own Sweet Song" w. C. C. S. Cushing & E. P. Heath m. Emmerich Kalman
* "[[Magnetic Rag]]" m. [[Scott Joplin]]
* "[[Missouri Waltz]]" w. James Royce Shannon m. Frederick Knight Logan
* "My Bird Of Paradise" [[Irving Berlin]]
* "My Croony Melody" w.m. Joe Goodwin & E. Ray Goetz
* "[[On the 5:15]]" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
* "On The Good Ship Mary Ann" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Grace Leboy]]
* "On The Shores Of Italy" w.m. [[Al Piantadosi]], Dave Oppenheim & Jack Glogau
* "Pigeon Walk" m. [[James V. Monaco]]
* "[[Play a Simple Melody]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Rufus Johnson's Harmony Band" w.m. [[Shelton Brooks]] & [[Maurice Abrahams]]
* "Same Sort Of Girl" w. [[Harry B. Smith]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Settle Down In A One-Horse Town" [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Shadowland" w. [[Blanche Merrill]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "She's Dancing Her Heart Away" w. [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] m. [[Kerry Mills]]
* "[[Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers]]" w. [[R. P. Weston]] m. [[Herman Darewski]]
* "The Springtime Of Life" w. [[Robert Bache Smith|Robert B. Smith]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "[[St. Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]" w.m. [[W. C. Handy]]
* "[[Stay Down Here Where You Belong]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Sylvia" w. [[Clinton Scollard]] m. [[Oley Speaks]]
* "Syncopated Walk" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "[[That's a Plenty]]" m. [[Lew Pollack]]  w. [[Ray Gilbert]]
* "There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning" w. Joe McCarthy m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "[[They Didn't Believe Me]]" w. Herbert Reynolds m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "They're On Their Way To Mexico" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "This Is The Life" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "'Twas In September" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. [[Silvio Hein]]
* "[[Twelfth Street Rag]]" m. Euday L. Bowman
* "[[Vienna, City of My Dreams (song)|Vienna, City of My Dreams]]" w. (Austrian) Rudolf Sieczynski m. Rudolf Sieczynski
* "Way Out Yonder In The Golden West" w.m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
* "What Is Love" [[Irving Berlin]]
* "When It's Night Time In Dixieland" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "When The Angelus Is Ringing" w. [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Bert Grant (composer)|Bert Grant]]
* "When The Grown-up Ladies Act Like Babies" w. [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] & [[Edgar Leslie]] m. [[Maurice Abrahams]]
* "[[When We've Wound Up the Watch on the Rhine]]" w. F.W. Mark m. [[Herman Darewski]]
* "When You Wore A Tulip" w. Jack Mahoney m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
* "When You're A Long, Long Way From Home" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] m. George W. Meyer
* "When You're Away" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs Rip Van Winkle?" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. Fred Fischer
* "[[Yellow Dog Blues|The Yellow Dog Blues]]" w.m. [[W. C. Handy]]
* "You Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Love" w. J. Will Callahan m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "[[Your King and Country Need You (Pelham)|Your King and Country Need You (1)]]" w. Paul Pelham m. W. H. Wallis and Fred Elton
* "[[Your King and Country Need You (Trevor)|Your King and Country Need You (2)]]" w. [[Huntley Trevor]] m. Henry E. Pether
* "[[Your King and Country Want You]]" w. and m. Paul Rubens

==Popular recordings==
* "[[Aba Daba Honeymoon]]" by [[Collins & Harlan]]
* "[[Ballin' the Jack]]" by [[Prince's Orchestra]]
* "[[Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser]]" by [[Mark Sheridan]]
* "Brindisi" from ''[[La traviata]]'', by [[Enrico Caruso]] & [[Alma Gluck]]
* "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by [[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]]

==Classical music==
*[[Lili Boulanger]] – Trois morceaux pour piano
*[[John Alden Carpenter]] – ''Adventures in a Perambulator'' (ballet)
*[[Arthur De Greef (composer)|Arthur De Greef]] – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor
*[[Frederick Delius]] – Violin Sonata No. 1
*[[Ernő Dohnányi]] – Variations on a Nursery Song
*[[Marcel Dupré]] – ''Psyche'' (cantata)
*[[George Enescu]] – [[Symphony No. 2 (Enescu)|Symphony No. 2]] in A, Op. 17
*[[Herbert Howells]] – Piano Concerto No. 1
*[[Charles Ives]] – Violin Sonata No. 3
*[[Zoltán Kodály]] – Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7
*[[Nikolai Karlovich Medtner|Nikolai Medtner]] – ''Sonate-Ballade op. 27''
*[[Carl Nielsen]] – ''[[Serenata in vano]]''
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]]
**Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
**[[Sarcasms (Prokofiev)|''Sarcasms'', for piano]]
**''The Ugly Duckling'', for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
*[[Roger Quilter]] – ''A Children's Overture''
*[[Maurice Ravel]] – [[Piano Trio (Ravel)|Piano Trio in A Minor]]
*[[Max Reger]] – [[Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart]] (orchestral version)
*[[Ottorino Respighi]]
**''Sinfonia Drammatica''
**''La Sensitiva'', for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
**''Il Tramonto'', for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (or string orchestra)
*[[Jean Sibelius]] – [[The Oceanides]] 
*[[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
**[[A London Symphony (Vaughan Williams)|Symphony No. 2 ''A London Symphony'']]
**''[[The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)|The Lark Ascending]]'' (original version completed)
*[[Anton Webern]] – Cello Sonata
*[[Érik Satie]] – ''Sports et divertissements''

==Opera==
*[[Rutland Boughton]] – ''[[The Immortal Hour]]''
*[[Jules Massenet]] – ''[[Cléopâtre]]''
*[[Henri Rabaud]] – ''[[Mârouf, savetier du Caire]]''
*[[Joaquín Turina]] – ''[[Margot (opera)|Margot]]''
*[[Gabriel von Wayditch]] – ''Opium Dreams''
*[[Riccardo Zandonai]] – ''[[Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)|Francesca da Rimini]]'' premiered at the [[Teatro Regio (Turin)|Teatro Regio]] in [[Turin]] on [[19 February]] 1914

==[[Jazz]]==
{{Main|1914 in jazz}}

==[[Musical theatre]]==
*''[[Adele (musical)|Adele]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]] on May 30
* ''[[The Belle of Bond Street]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on March 30 and ran for 48 performances
* ''[[Business as Usual (musical)|Business as Usual]]'' London production opened at the [[London Hippodrome|Hippodrome]] on November 16
* ''[[Chin-Chin]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Globe Theatre (New York)|Globe Theatre]] on October 20 and ran for 295 performances<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas S. Hischak|title=Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GzeiySJZXF4C&pg=PA80|date=22 April 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5309-2|pages=80}}</ref>
* ''[[The Earl and the Girl]]'' London revival opened at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] on November 4
* ''[[The Girl from Utah]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on August 24 and ran for 120 performances
* ''[[The Lilac Domino]]'' (libretto by [[Emmerich von Gatti]] and [[Bela Jenbach]]; music by [[Charles Cuvillier]]) Broadway production opened at the [[44th Street Theatre]] on October 28 and ran for 109 performances
* ''[[Papa's Darling]]'' Broadway production
* ''[[The Pretty Mrs Smith]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on September 21 and ran for 48 performances
*''[[Szibill]]'' by [[Victor Jacobi]], with libretto by Martos Ferenc and Miklós Bródy.  First performed on February 27 in [[Budapest]].
* ''[[Tonight's The Night (1914 musical)|Tonight's The Night]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on December 24 and ran for 112 performances
* ''[[Wars of the World]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[New York Hippodrome|Hippodrome Theatre]] on September 5 and ran for 229 performances
* ''[[Watch Your Step (musical)|Watch Your Step]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on December 8 and ran for 175 performances
* ''[[When Claudia Smiles]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[39th Street Theatre]] on February 2 and moved to the [[Lyric Theatre (1903 New York City)|Lyric Theatre]] on February 23 for a total run of 112 performances

==Births==
*[[January 25]] – [[William Strickland (conductor)|William Strickland]], American conductor and organist (d. 1991)
*[[February 10]] – [[Larry Adler]], harmonica virtuoso (d. [[2001 in music|2001]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The new Grove dictionary of jazz |volume=1 |year=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc. |location=New York |isbn=1-56159-284-6 |edition=2nd |editor=Barry Kernfeld |page=16 |chapter=Adler, Larry}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] – [[Tex Beneke]], American bandleader (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/31/us/tex-beneke-86-a-leader-of-glenn-miller-s-band.html|title=Tex Beneke, 86, A Leader of Glenn Miller's Band |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 31, 2000 |access-date=2010-05-25 }}</ref>
*[[February 18]] – [[Pee Wee King]], country musician (d. 2000)
*[[March 5]] – [[Philip Farkas]], horn player (d. 1992)
*[[March 6]] – [[Kirill Kondrashin]], conductor (d. [[1981 in music|1981]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel Jaffé|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65ZrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183|date=8 March 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7980-5|pages=183}}</ref>
*[[March 10]] – [[Pilar Manalo Danao]], Filipino songwriter (d. [[1987 in music|1987]])
*[[March 21]] – [[Paul Tortelier]], cellist and composer (d. [[1990 in music|1990]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Strad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2w9AQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Orpheus|page=201}}</ref>
*[[March 28]] – [[Clara Petrella]], Italian operatic soprano (d. 1987)
*[[March 30]] – [[Sonny Boy Williamson I|Sonny Boy Williamson]], blues musician (d. [[1948 in music|1948]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Henry Townsend|author2=Bill Greensmith|title=A Blues Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaeDzHuXhooC&pg=RA2-PA123|year=1999|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02526-6|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Frances Langford]], American singer and actress (d. 2005)
*[[April 25]] – [[John Sebastian (classical harmonica player)|John Sebastian]], harmonica virtuoso (d. 1980)
*[[April 26]] – [[Wilfrid Mellers]], musicologist and composer (d. 2008)
*[[May 9]] 
**<!--May 9-->[[Carlo Maria Giulini]], conductor (d. [[2005 in music|2005]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Gramophone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFMAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=General Gramophone Publications Limited|page=19}}</ref>
**<!--May 9-->[[Hank Snow]], country singer (d. [[1999 in music|1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=PETER KRAMPERT|title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-577-4|pages=164}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[Johnnie Wright]], American country music singer-songwriter (d. [[2011 in music|2011]])
*[[May 18]] 
**[[Cacilda Borges Barbosa]], Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer (d. [[2010 in music|2010]])
**[[Alla Bayanova]], Russian singer (d. [[2011 in music|2011]])
**[[Boris Christoff]], operatic bass (d. [[1993 in music|1993]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Atanas Bozhkov|title=Boris Christoff: An Authorized Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pny0AAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Robson|isbn=978-0-86051-731-3|page=14}}</ref>
*[[May 22]] – [[Sun Ra]], American musician (d. [[1993 in music|1993]])
*[[May 26]] – [[Ziggy Elman]], American trumpet player (d. 1968)
*[[May 31]] – [[Akira Ifukube]], composer (d. 2006)
*[[June 6]] – [[Iris du Pré]], pianist, mother of [[Jacqueline du Pré]] and [[Hilary du Pré]] (d. 1985)
*[[June 16]]
**<!--June 16-->[[Colette Maze]], French pianist (d. [[2023 in music|2023]])
**<!--June 16-->[[Eleanor Sokoloff]], American pianist and teacher (d. 2020)
*[[June 28]] – [[Lester Flatt]], bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
*[[June 29]] – [[Rafael Kubelík]], Czech-born conductor (d. [[1996 in music|1996]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Guy A. Marco|title=Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lvj0AAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-4782-5|page=377}}</ref>
*[[July 2]] – [[Frederick Fennell]], conductor (d. 2004)
*[[July 5]] – [[Gerda Gilboe]], Danish actress and singer (d. [[2009 in music|2009]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnfnavn&p_parmlist=navneid=3552 |title=Gerda Gilboe |publisher=[[Danish Film Institute]] |accessdate=3 August 2009 |language=Danish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521221041/http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnfnavn&p_parmlist=navneid%3D3552 |archive-date=21 May 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[July 7]] – [[Serafim Tulikov]], Russian and Soviet composer (d. [[2004 in music|2004]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Portraits of Prominent USSR Personalities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9a4mAQAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=168}}</ref>
*[[July 8]] – [[Billy Eckstine]], jazz musician and singer (d. [[1993 in music|1993]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Everett Jenkins|title=Pan-African Chronology: 1914-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zU0UAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0835-1|page=12}}</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[Fred Fox (musician)|Fred Fox]], American French horn player and brass instrument teacher (d. 1949)
*[[July 24]] – [[Riccardo Malipiero]], Italian composer, pianist and music educator (d. 2003)
*[[July 26]]
**<!--July 26-->[[Ralph Blane]], American composer and singer (d. 1995)
**<!--July 26-->[[Erskine Hawkins]], American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993)
*[[August 5]] – [[Stjepan Šulek]], Croatian composer (d. 1986)
*[[August 10]] – [[Witold Małcużyński]], Polish pianist (d. 1977)
*[[August 11]] – [[Hugh Martin]], American composer (d. [[2011 in music|2011]])<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=343}}</ref>
*[[August 12]] – [[Ruth Lowe]], Canadian pianist and songwriter (d. 1981)
*[[August 18]] – [[Irmgard Österwall]], Swedish jazz singer (d. 1980)
*[[August 28]] – [[Glenn Osser]], American conductor and arranger (d. 2014)
*[[September 5]] – [[Minuetta Kessler]], née Shumiatcher, concert pianist, classical composer and music educator (d. 2002)
*[[September 12]] – [[Eddy Howard]], singer (d. 1963)
*[[September 24]] – [[Andrzej Panufnik]], composer (d. [[1991 in music|1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=B. M. Maciejewski|title=Twelve Polish Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VtHAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Allegro Press|isbn=978-0-9505619-0-5|page=80}}</ref>
*[[September 25]] – [[Robert Wright (writer)|Robert Wright]], American composer (d. 2005)
*[[October 7]] – [[Alfred Drake]], American singer and actor (d. 1992)
*[[October 10]] – [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], R&B singer, songwriter and pianist (d. 1974)
*[[November 15]] – [[Jorge Bolet]], pianist and conductor (d. 1990)
*[[December 3]] – [[Irving Fine]], composer (d. 1962)
*[[December 7]] – [[Alberto Castillo (performer)|Alberto Castillo]], Argentine tango singer and actor (d. [[2002 in music|2002]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Rosalyn Tureck]], pianist (d. [[2003 in music|2003]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Murray Polner|title=American Jewish Biographies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIl2AAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Facts on File, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-87196-462-5|page=445}}</ref>
*[[December 23]] – [[Dezider Kardoš]], composer (d. 1991)
*[[December 29]] – [[Billy Tipton]], jazz musician (d. 1989)
*[[December 30]] 
** [[Bert Parks]], American singer and actor (''Miss America Pageant'') (d. [[1992 in music|1992]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Scott Baron|title=They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUeQFUHgyNoC|year=1998|publisher=MIE Publishing|isbn=978-1-877639-37-1|page=151}}</ref>
** [[Nicolai Shutorev]], American singer (d. [[1948 in music|1948]])
*''date unknown'' – [[Rita Abatzi]], rebetiko singer (d. 1969)

==Deaths==
*[[January 5]] – [[François Cellier]], conductor and composer (b. 1849)
*[[January 13]] – [[Valentin Zubiaurre]], Spanish composer and professor of the [[Madrid Royal Conservatory]] (b. [[1837 in music|1837]])
*[[January 23]] – [[George W. Johnson (singer)|George W. Johnson]], singer and pioneer recording artist (b. 1850)
*[[February 1]] – [[Alexander Dodonov]], Russian opera singer (b. [[1837 in music|1837]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Tor Aulin]], violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1866)
*[[March 24]] – [[Ellen Franz]], pianist and actress (b. 1839)
*[[March 31]] – [[Hubert von Herkomer]], painter, film director and composer (b. 1849)
*[[May 3]] – [[Carl Kölling]], composer of piano music (b. 1831)
*[[May 10]]
**<!--May 10-->[[Lillian Nordica]], opera singer (b. [[1857 in music|1857]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Bay View Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIkqAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=J. M. Hall|page=467}}</ref>
**<!--May 10-->[[Ernst von Schuch]], conductor (b. 1846)
*[[July 1]] – [[Edmund Payne]], musical comedy star (b. 1865)
*[[July 14]] – [[Andrzej Hławiczka]], musicologist (b. 1866)
*[[July 23]] – [[Harry Evans (composer)|Harry Evans]], conductor and composer (b. 1873)
*[[August 7]] – [[Bolesław Dembiński]], composer (b. 1833)
*[[August 11]] – [[Emil Fischer (basso)|Emil Fischer]], operatic bass (b. 1838)
*[[August 18]] – [[Anna Yesipova]], pianist (b. 1851)
*[[August 28]] – [[Anatoly Lyadov]], composer (b. 1855)
*[[September 2]] – [[K. C. Kesava Pillai]], Carnatic composer and poet (b. 1868)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VpvjAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Music Academy|page=180}}</ref>
*[[September 3]] – [[Albéric Magnard]], composer (b. 1865)
*[[September 13]] – [[Robert Hope-Jones]], inventor of the theatre organ (b. 1859)
*[[September 28]] – [[Stevan Mokranjac]], composer (b. 1856)
*[[October 28]] – [[Richard Heuberger]], composer (b. 1850)
*[[November 9]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Faure]], operatic baritone and composer (b. 1830)
*[[December 14]] – [[Giovanni Sgambati]], Italian pianist and composer (b. [[1841 in music|1841]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists: Opera and oratorio excerpts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qV_kAAAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=University Society|page=653}}</ref>
*[[December 16]] – [[Ivan Zajc]], composer (b. [[1832 in music|1832]])<ref>{{cite book|title=New Zealand Slavonic Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vfTAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Department of Russian, Victoria University of Wellington|page=7}}</ref>
*[[December 25]] – [[Bernhard Stavenhagen]], pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1862)
*[[December 29]]/[[December 31|31]] – [[Alfredo D'Ambrosio]], Italian composer (b. [[1871 in music|1871]])
*[[May Summerbelle]]

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