Editing 1915 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915.

==Specific locations==
*[[1915 in British music]]
*[[1915 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1915 in jazz]]

==Events==
*March&ndash;December – The [[ukulele]] becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]] in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/news/how-san-franciscos-panama-pacific-international-expo-of-1915-sparked-the-first-uke-craze|title=The Spark that Started the First Ukulele Craze|date=February 19, 2015|website=Ukulele magazine|access-date=July 24, 2021}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[Tom Brown (trombonist)|Tom Brown]]'s band from [[New Orleans]] begin performing in [[Chicago, Illinois]] and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band".<ref>[http://www.redhotjazz.com/browns.html Tom Brown's Band from Dixie Land] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202853/http://www.redhotjazz.com/browns.html |date=2016-03-03 }}. Accessed 17 April 2013.</ref>
*[[April 21]] – [[Sibelius]] sees sixteen swans over [[Lake Tuusula]] which immediately inspires him to write the theme that becomes the finalé to his [[Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 5]].
*Summer – [[Claude Debussy]] composes at [[Pourville]] on the French [[English Channel|Channel]] coast.
*[[October 28]] – [[Richard Strauss]]'s [[symphonic poem]] ''[[An Alpine Symphony]]'' (''Eine Alpensinfonie'') is premiered by the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin under the composer's baton.
*[[November 13]] – First concert devoted to the work of [[Brazil]]ian composer [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]].<ref>''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]''.{{Full citation needed|date=April 2017}}<!--Author's name, article title; alternatively, volume and page number needed; in either case, the edition must be specified.--></ref>
*[[December 8]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the world première of his [[Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 5]] in [[Helsinki]] at a birthday concert for him.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jon|last=Paxman|title=Classical Music 1600–2000: A Chronology|location=London|publisher=Omnibus|year=2014|isbn=978-1-84449-773-7}}</ref>
*December – [[Claude Debussy]] becomes one of the first people to receive a [[colostomy]].
*Composer [[Alban Berg]] enters service with the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]].
*Composer [[Herbert Howells]] is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Spicer|year=1998|title=Herbert Howells|publisher=Seren|location=Bridgend|ISBN= 1-85411-233-3|page=44}}</ref>
*[[William Penfro Rowlands]]'s [[hymn tune]] "[[Blaenwern]]" is first published in Henry H. Jones''' Cân a Moliant''.
*[[Marie Kunkel Zimmerman|Marie]] and [[Edward M. Zimmerman]]'s suffrage anthem "Votes for Woman, Suffrage Rallying Song" is published.<ref>{{cite book|title=Suffragist Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the Women's Rights and Suffrage Movement in America, 1795-1921, with Complete Lyrics|first=Danny O.|last= Crew|year=2015|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|isbn=9781476607443|page=337}}</ref>

==Published popular music==
[[Image:Jelly Roll Blues 1915.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"The [[Jelly Roll Blues]]" by [[Jelly Roll Morton]] ]]

* "Agitation Rag" by Robert Hampton
* "[[Alabama Jubilee (song)|Alabama Jubilee]]" w.m. [[Jack Yellen]] & [[George L. Cobb]]
* "All For You" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Bert Grant (composer)|Bert Grant]]
* "America, I Love You" w. [[Edgar Leslie]] m. [[Archie Gottler]]
* "Araby" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Are You from Dixie ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)|Are You From Dixie?]]" w.m. [[Jack Yellen]] & [[George L. Cobb]]
* "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
* "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. [[Sigmund Romberg]], from the [[Musical theatre|musical]] [[The Blue Paradise]]
* "Babes In The Wood"  w. Schuyler Greene & [[Jerome Kern]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. [[Al Piantadosi]]
* "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. [[Grant Clarke]], [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]], & [[James V. Monaco]]
* "[[Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser]]" w.m. [[Mark Sheridan]]
* "[[Blame It On The Blues]]" [[Doc Cooke]]
* "[[Canadian Capers]]" w. Earl Burnett m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
* "Close To My Heart" by [[Andrew B. Sterling]]
* "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
* "[[Don't Take My Darling Boy Away]]" w. Will Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. [[Ballard MacDonald]] m. Harry Carroll
* "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & [[Sigmund Romberg]]
* "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Hello Frisco!"  w. Gene Buck m. [[Louis Hirsch|Louis A. Hirsch]]
* "[[Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?]]" w. [[Bert Kalmar]] & [[Edgar Leslie]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "The Hesitating Blues"  w.m. [[W. C. Handy]]
* "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]] & [[Armand J. Piron]]
* "[[I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier]]" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. Al Piantadosi
* "[[I Love a Piano]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" [[Benjamin Hapgood Burt]]
* "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" [[Herman Darewski]]
* "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. [[Joe McCarthy (lyricist)|Joe McCarthy]] m. [[James V. Monaco]]
* "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w. [[William Jerome]] & [[E. Ray Goetz]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "[[In a Monastery Garden]]" m. [[Albert William Ketèlbey]]
* "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. [[Fiske O'Hara]] & [[J. Keirn Brennan]] m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. [[Richard A. Whiting]]
* "[[I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River]]" w. [[Bert Kalmar]] m. Joe Cooper
* "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w. [[William Jerome]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "[[Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song)|Keep the Home Fires Burning]]" w. [[Lena Guilbert Ford]] m. [[Ivor Novello]] (2nd edition, first under this title)
* "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. [[Raymond Hubbell]]
* "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. [[Ballard MacDonald]] & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
* "Love Is The Best Of All" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "Love, Here Is My Heart" w. [[Adrian Ross]] m. Lãu Silésu
* "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "[[Memories (1915 song)|Memories]]" w. [[Gustave Kahn]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] m. [[Theodore F. Morse]]
* "My Little Girl" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[William Dillon]] m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "My Mother's Rosary" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] m. George W. Meyer
* "My Sweet Adair" w.m. [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] & Anatole Friedland
* "Neapolitan Love Song" w. [[Henry Blossom Jr]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "Nola" m. [[Felix Arndt]]
* "Norway" by [[Joe McCarthy (lyricist)|Joe McCarthy]]
* "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. [[Henry Kailimai]]
* "[[Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag]]" w. [[George Asaf]] m. [[Felix Powell]]
* "[[Paper Doll (The Mills Brothers song)|Paper Doll]]" w.m. [[Johnny S. Black]]
* "The Perfect Song" w. [[Clarence Lucas]] m. [[Joseph Carl Breil]]
* "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. [[Elsa Maxwell]]
* "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward A. Berlin|title=Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwmVWcTQiDgC&pg=PA148|year=1984|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05219-2|pages=148}}</ref>
* "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w.  [[Harold J. Atteridge]] m. [[Sigmund Romberg]] from the [[revue]] ''[[A World of Pleasure]]''
* "Railroad Jim" by [[Nat H. Vincent]]
* "[[Ritual Fire Dance (Falla)|Ritual Fire Dance]]" m. [[Manuel de Falla]]
* "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "Siam" w. [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. [[Benjamin Hapgood Burt]] & Roy Atwell m. [[Silvio Hein]].  Introduced by [[Roy Atwell]] in the musical ''[[Alone at Last (musical)|Alone at Last]]''.
* "Some Sort Of Somebody" w. [[Elsie Janis]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Ken Bloom|title=American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yj7jAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Facts on File|isbn=978-0-87196-924-8|page=495}}</ref>
* "Song Of The Islands" w.m. [[Charles E. King]]
* "That Hula Hula" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Berlin (Irving) Music Corporation, New York|title=The Songs of Irving Berlin, Arr. Alphabetically, Chronologically, Categorically, Stage, Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SgKAQAAMAAJ|year=1957|page=43}}</ref>
* "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
* "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] m. [[George W. Meyer]]
* "Underneath The Stars" w. [[Fleta Jan Brown Spencer|Fleta Jan Brown]] m. Herbert Spencer
* "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "[[Weary Blues]]" m. [[Artie Matthews]]
* "When I Get Back To The USA" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "When I Leave The World Behind" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. [[Grant Clarke]] & Al Piantadosi
* "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" by [[Shelton Brooks]]
* "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" w. [[Andrew B. Sterling]] m. [[Harry Von Tilzer]]

==Hit recordings==
* "[[Carry Me Back to Old Virginny]]" by [[Alma Gluck]]
* "[[It's a Long Way to Tipperary]]" by [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]]
* "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by [[Morton Harvey]]
* "[[Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song)|Keep the Home Fires Burning]]" by James F. Harrison

==Classical music==
*[[Béla Bartók]]
**''Romanian Folk Dances''
**Sonatina
*[[Alban Berg]] – [[Three Pieces for Orchestra (Berg)|Three Pieces for Orchestra]] (''Drei Orchesterstücke''; first performed 1923/30)
*[[Frank Bridge]] 
**Novelletten, H.44 (first published, composed 1904)
**String Quartet No.2, H.115
**Lament, H.117
*[[Harry Burleigh|Harry Thacker Burleigh]] 
**5 Songs of Laurence Hope
**Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
*[[John Alden Carpenter]]
**''Adventures in a Perambulator'' (first performed)<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZsYAAAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0744-1|page=32}}</ref>
**''Concertino for piano and orchestra''
**''Impromptu'' for piano
**''Polonaise Américaine'' for piano
*[[Claude Debussy]]
**''[[En blanc et noir]]'' for two pianos
**[[Études (Debussy)|Études]] for solo piano (two books of 6)
**Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
**[[Sonata for flute, viola and harp (Debussy)|Sonata for flute, viola and harp]] (first performed 1916)
*[[George Enescu]] – Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major, Op. 20
*[[Edward Elgar]] – Polonia, op.76 (Overture)
*[[Manuel de Falla]]
**''[[El amor brujo]]'' (''gitanería'' version for [[cante flamenco]], actors and chamber orchestra)
**''[[Nights in the Gardens of Spain]]'' (''Noches en los jardines de España''; first performed 1916)
*[[Enrique Granados]] – 2 Danzas Españolas, Op.37
*[[Jesús Guridi]] – ''Así cantan los chicos''
*[[Charles Ives]]
**[[Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives)|Piano Sonata No. 2, ''Concord, Mass., 1840–60'']] (first published 1919)
**String Quartet No. 2 (first performed 1946)
*[[Zoltán Kodály]] – [[Sonata for Solo Cello (Kodály)|Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8]]
*[[Egon Kornauth]] – Phantasie Op.10 
*[[Federico Mompou]] – ''L'Hora Gris'' ("Grey Hour")
*[[Manuel Ponce (composer)|Manuel Ponce]] – ''[[Balada Mexicana]]''
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] – ''[[Scythian Suite]]'' (first performed 1916)
*[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] – ''[[All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff)|All-Night Vigil]]'' (Всенощное бдѣніе, ''Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye'')
*[[Max Reger]]
**''Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Beethoven'', Op. 86
**3 Cello Suites, Op. 131c
**3 Viola Suites, Op. 131d
**Violin Sonata No.9, Op.139
**String Trio No. 2 in D minor, [[Max Reger works#141b|Op. 141b]]
**[[Requiem (Reger)|''Requiem'']], Op. 144b
*[[Camille Saint-Saëns]] – [[Cavatine (Saint-Saëns)|Cavatine]], Op. 144
*[[Jean Sibelius]]
**Impromptu, Op. 78
**''[[Jäger March]]'' (''Jääkärien marssi''), Op. 91a, for male chorus and symphony orchestra
**[[Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major]], Op. 82
*[[Charles Villiers Stanford]] – Piano Concerto No.2, Op.126, premiered June 3 in Norfolk, Connecticut
*[[Wilhelm Stenhammar]] – Symphony No. 2 in G minor
*[[Richard Strauss]] – ''[[An Alpine Symphony]]''
*[[Karol Szymanowski]]
**''[[Métopes]]'', for piano
**''Mythes'', for violin and piano
**''Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess'', for voice and piano
**''3 Songs on Words by Dmitri Davydov'', for voice and piano
*[[Gabriel Verdalle]] – Impromptu No.2
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]]
**Cello Concerto no. 1
**''Danças Características Africanas'' for piano
**''Desesperança – Sonata Phantastica e Capricciosa No. 1'' for violin and piano
**''Elégie'' for orchestra
**''[[String Quartet No. 1 (Villa-Lobos)|Suíte graciosa]]'' (revised in 1946 as String Quartet No. 1)
**[[String Quartet No. 2 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 2]]
**Trio for piano and strings No. 2
*[[Siegfried Wagner]] – Violin Concerto
*[[Heinrich Weinreis]] – Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
*[[Géza Zichy]] – Liebestraum

==Opera==
*[[Rutland Boughton]] – ''Bethlehem''
*[[Umberto Giordano]] – ''Madame Sans-Gene''
*[[Emmerich Kálmán]] – ''[[Die Csárdásfürstin]]'' premiered November 17 in Vienna

==[[Jazz]]==
{{Main|1915 in jazz}}

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[Alone at Last (musical)|Alone at Last]]'' [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on October 14 and ran for 180 performances
* ''[[Betty (musical)|Betty]]'' London production opened at [[Daly's Theatre (London)|Daly's Theatre]] on April 24 and ran for 391 performances
* ''[[The Blue Paradise]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on August 5 and ran for 356 performances.
* ''[[Bric-A-Brac]]'' London production opened at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] on September 18.
* ''[[5064 Gerrard]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] [[revue]] opened at the [[Alhambra Theatre]] on March 19.
* ''[[Hip-Hip-Hooray]]'' Broadway [[revue]] opened at the [[Hippodrome Theatre, New York City|Hippodrome Theatre]] on September 30 and ran for 425 performances.
* ''[[Maid in America]]'' [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] production opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
* ''[[The Only Girl (musical)|The Only Girl]]'' London production opened at the [[Apollo Theatre]] on September 25 and ran for 107 performances.
* ''[[The Passing Show|The Passing Show Of 1915]]'' Broadway revue opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on May 29 and ran for 145 performances.
* ''[[Shell Out]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at the [[Comedy Theatre]] on August 24 and ran for 315 performances.
* ''[[Stop! Look! Listen!]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Globe Theatre]] on December 25 and ran for 105 performances.
* ''[[Tonight's the Night (1914 musical)|Tonight's The Night]]'' London production opened at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]] on April 18 and ran for 460 performances.
* ''[[Very Good Eddie]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Princess Theatre, New York City|Princess Theatre]] on December 23 and ran for 341 performances
* ''[[A World of Pleasure]]'' [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] revue opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
* ''[[Ziegfeld Follies|Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915]]'' Broadway revue opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on June 21 and ran for 104 performances

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Fulgencio Aquino]], Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994)
*[[January 6]] – [[Bob Copper]], English folk singer (d. 2004)
*[[January 25]] – [[Ewan MacColl]], English folk singer and songwriter (d. [[1989 in music|1989]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=260}}</ref>
*[[January 27]] – [[Jack Brymer]], English clarinettist (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite book|title=Gramophone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBIKAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=General Gramophone Publications Limited|page=16}}</ref>
*[[January 29]] – [[John Serry, Sr.]], US concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003)
*[[January 30]] – [[Dorothy Dell]], actress and singer (d. 1934)
*[[January 31]] – [[Alan Lomax]], US folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002)<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=396}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – [[Ray Evans]], US songwriter (d. 2007)
*[[February 18]] – [[Marcel Landowski]], French composer, biographer and arts administrator (d. 1999)
*[[March 4]] – [[Carlos Surinach]], Spanish composer (d. 1997)
*[[March 10]] – [[Charles Groves]], English conductor (d. 1992)
*[[March 14]] – [[Alexander Brott]], Canadian conductor and composer (d. [[2005 in music|2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. International Service|title=Thirty-four Biographies of Canadian Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxcXAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Scholarly Press|isbn=978-0-403-01351-7|page=21}}</ref>
*[[March 20]]
**[[Sviatoslav Richter]], pianist (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite book|title=Recorded Sound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJLkAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=British Institute of Recorded Sound|page=72}}</ref>
**[[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]], gospel singer (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite book|title=Black Women in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJIbAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Macmillan Library Reference USA|isbn=978-0-02-865363-1|page=266}}</ref>
*[[March 25]] – [[Dorothy Squires]], Welsh singer (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite book|author=Edmond Grant|title=The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WVAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=CineBooks|isbn=978-0-933997-43-1|page=524}}</ref>
*[[March 27]] – [[Robert Lockwood, Jr.]], US [[Delta blues]] guitarist (d. 2006)
*[[March 28]] – [[Jay Livingston]], songwriter (d. 2001)
*[[March 29]] – [[George Chisholm (musician)|George Chisholm]], Scottish-born jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sinclair Traill|title=Play that Music: A Guide to Playing Jazz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOM3AQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Faber & Faber|page=12}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Muddy Waters]] (born McKinley Morganfield), African American blues musician (d. 1983)
*[[April 7]] – [[Billie Holiday]] (born Eleanora Fagan), African American blues singer (d. 1959)<ref>{{cite book|author=Ken Vail|title=Lady Day's Diary: The Life of Billie Holiday, 1937-1959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ksIAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Castle Communications|isbn=978-1-86074-131-9|page=4}}</ref>
*[[April 12]] – [[Hound Dog Taylor]], African American blues guitarist (d. 1975)
*[[April 29]] – [[Donald Mills]], US singer of the [[Mills Brothers]] (d. 1999)
*[[May 5]] – [[Alice Faye]], US actress and singer (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite book|author=Barry Rivadue|title=Alice Faye: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydIgIyw6FSoC&pg=PA1|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26525-9|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[May 8]] – [[Nan Wynn]], US singer (d. 1971)
*[[May 25]] – [[Ginny Simms]], US singer (d. 1994)
*[[May 27]]
**[[Esther Soré]], Chilean musician (d. 1996)
**[[Midge Williams]], African American jazz singer (d. 1952)
*[[June 1]] – [[Bart Howard]], composer and pianist (d. 2004)
*[[June 9]] – [[Les Paul]], US musician, inventor of the solid body [[electric guitar]] (d. 2009)
*[[June 12]] – [[Priscilla Lane]], US singer and actress (d. 1995)
*[[June 17]] – [[David "Stringbean" Akeman]], US country musician (d. 1973)
*[[June 18]] – [[Vic Legley]], Dutch composer (d. 1994)
*[[June 22]] – [[Randolph Hokanson|Randolph Henning Hokanson]], pianist (died 2018)
*[[June 28]] – [[David Honeyboy Edwards]], US blues musician (d. 2011)
*[[July 1]] – [[Willie Dixon]], US blues musician (d. 1992)
*[[July 9]] – [[David Diamond (composer)|David Diamond]], classical composer (d. 2005)
*[[July 15]] – [[Frankie Yankovic]], polka musician (d. 1998)
*[[July 22]] – [[:it:Armando Renzi|Armando Renzi]] (it), composer (died 1985)
*[[July 23]] – [[Emmett Berry]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
*[[July 28]] – [[Frankie Yankovic]], accordionist and polka musician (d. 1998)
*[[July 31]] – [[George Forrest (author)|George Forrest]], musical theatre writer (d. 1999)
*[[August 6]] – [[Jacques Abram]], pianist (d. 1998)
*[[August 9]] – [[Haim Alexander]], Israeli composer (d. 2012)
*[[August 24]] – [[Wynonie Harris]], US singer (d. 1969)
*[[August 26]] – [[Humphrey Searle]], English composer (d. 1982)
*[[August 30]] – [[Robert Strassburg]], US classical composer (d. 2003)
*[[September 3]]
**[[Knut Nystedt]], Norwegian classical composer (d. 2014)
**[[Memphis Slim]] (born John Chatman), African American blues musician (d. 1988)
*[[September 5]] – [[Florencio Morales Ramos]], singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989)
*[[September 12]] – [[Billy Daniels]], US singer (d. 1988)
*[[September 23]] – [[Julius Baker]], flautist (d. 2003)
*[[September 24]] – [[Ettore Gracis]], conductor (d. 1992)
*[[October 10]] – [[Sweets Edison]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
*[[October 31]] – [[Jane Jarvis]], jazz pianist and composer (d. 2010)
*[[November 5]] – [[Myron Floren]], accordionist (d. 2005)
*[[November 9]] – [[Hanka Bielicka]], Polish singer and actress (d. 2006)
*[[November 14]] – [[Billy Bauer]], cool jazz guitarist (d. 2005)
*[[November 26]] – [[Earl Wild]], pianist (d. 2010)
*[[November 29]] – [[Billy Strayhorn]], jazz composer, pianist, arranger, lyricist and collaborator with Duke Ellington (d. 1967) 
*[[November 30]] – [[Brownie McGhee]], US [[Piedmont blues]] musician (d. 1996)
*[[December 12]] – [[Frank Sinatra]], US singer and actor (d. 1998)
*[[December 14]] – [[Dan Dailey]], US singer and actor (d. 1978)
*[[December 16]] – [[Georgy Sviridov]], Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998)
*[[December 17]] – [[André Claveau]], singer (d. 2003)
*[[December 19]] – [[Édith Piaf]], French singer (d. 1963)
*[[December 25]] – [[Pete Rugolo]], Italian-born US pianist and bandleader (d 2011)

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] 
**[[Karl Goldmark]], Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
**[[Bertha Tammelin]], Swedish mezzo-soprano singer and actress (b. 1836)
*[[January 5]] – [[Jeanne Gerville-Réache]], French operatic contralto (b. 1882)
*[[January 21]] – [[Louis Gregh]], French composer and publisher (b. 1843)
*[[January 22]] – [[Anna Bartlett Warner]], songwriter (b. 1827)
*[[January 25]] – [[Rudolf Tillmetz]], flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847)
*[[February 5]] – [[Paul Collin]], translator and lyricist (born 1843)
*[[February 12]]
**<!--February 12-->[[Fanny Crosby]], hymn-writer (b. 1820)
**<!--February 12-->[[Emile Waldteufel]], composer (b. 1837)
*[[March 12]] – [[Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen]], composer (b. 1838)
*[[March 19]] – [[Franz Xaver Neruda]], cellist and composer (b. 1843)
*[[April 27]] – [[Alexander Scriabin]], composer (b. 1872) ([[sepsis]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Charles Frohman]], Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in [[Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'']])
*[[June 2]] – [[Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg|Botho Sigwart]], composer (born 1884)
*[[June 9]] – [[Enrico Rocca]], violin maker (b. 1847)
*[[June 10]] – [[William Hayman Cummings]], organist and singer (b. 1831)
*[[June 19]] – [[Sergei Taneyev]], pianist and composer (b. 1856)
*[[June 25]] – [[Rafael Joseffy]], pianist and composer (b. 1852)
*[[June 30]] – [[Billy Kersands]], African American dancer (b. c. 1842)
*[[September 15]] – [[Isidor Bajić]], composer (b. 1878)
*[[September 29]] – [[Rudi Stephan]], composer (b. 1887) (killed in action)
*[[October 2]] – [[Russell Alexander]], entertainer and composer (b. 1877)
*[[October 5]] 
**[[Otto Malling]], organist and composer (b. 1848)
**[[José María Usandizaga]], Spanish Basque composer (b. 1887) (tuberculosis)
*[[October 22]] – [[Adèle Isaac]], operatic soprano (b. 1854)
*[[October 26]] – [[August Bungert]], German composer and poet (b. 1845)
*[[November 12]] – [[Charles Delioux|Jean-Charles Delioux]], French composer (born 1825)
*[[November 14]] – [[Teodor Leszetycki]], pianist and composer (b. 1830)
*[[November 27]] – [[Sigismund Zaremba]], Russian composer (b. 1861)
*c. December 1 – [[Henry Hart (musician)|Henry Hart]], African American entertainer and composer (b. 1839)
*[[December 3]] – [[Lewis F. Muir]], American composer of ragtime (born 1883)
*[[December 4]] – [[Gustav Hollaender]], German composer (b. 1855)
*[[December 10]] – [[David Jenkins (composer)|David Jenkins]], Welsh choral composer (b. 1848)

==References==
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