Editing 1916 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1916.

==Specific locations==
*[[1916 in British music]]
*[[1916 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1916 in jazz]]

==Events==
* [[February 1]] – [[Carl Nielsen]] conducts the première of his [[Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen)|Symphony No. 4]], the ''Inextinguishable'', in [[Copenhagen]].
* [[February 11]] – [[Baltimore Symphony Orchestra]] presents its first concert.
* [[March 3]] – The [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]] begin playing at Schiller's Cafe in [[Chicago, Illinois]], under the name Stein's Dixie Jass Band.
* [[March 10]] – Sir [[Hubert Parry]] writes the choral setting of [[William Blake]]'s poem "[[And did those feet in ancient time]]" which becomes known as "Jerusalem" (first performed 28 March at the [[Queen's Hall]], London).
* [[April 28]] – [[Edison Records]] carry out the first public "comparison test" between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano [[Marie Rappold]].<ref>Edison Records. ''Composers and Artists whose Art is Re-Created by Edison's New Art'' (ca. 1920).</ref>
* [[June 5]] – Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]].
* [[August 3]] – The [[Musical theatre|musical comedy]] ''[[Chu Chin Chow]]'', written, produced, directed and starring [[Oscar Asche]], with music by [[Frederic Norton]], premières at [[His Majesty's Theatre, London|His Majesty's Theatre]] in [[London]]. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), a [[West End theatre]] record that will stand for nearly forty years.
* December – [[Wilbur Sweatman]] records his hot ragtime for [[Emerson Records]] in [[New York City]].
* [[Gustav Holst]] completes composition of his orchestral suite ''[[The Planets]]'', Op. 32, in England.
* [[Sydney Conservatorium of Music]] in Australia accepts its first students.
* Soprano [[Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann]] is awarded the [[Charlottenkreuz]].
* German soprano [[Vali von der Osten]] marries tenor [[Fritz Windgassen]].

[[Image:DontLeaveMeDaddy1916.jpg|thumb|170px|right]]

==Published popular music==
* "[[Beale Street Blues]]" w.m. [[W. C. Handy]]
* "[[Bugle Call Rag]]" w.m. [[Eubie Blake]] & [[Carey Elmore Morgan, Jr.|Carey Morgan]]
* "[[Don't Leave Me, Daddy]]" [[Joe Verges]]
* "[[For Dixie And Uncle Sam]]" w. [[J. Keirn Brennan]] m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "[[Homesickness Blues]]" w.m. Cliff Hess
* "[[I Ain't Got Nobody]]" w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m. [[Spencer Williams]]
* "[[If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)]]" w. [[Clifford Grey]] m. [[Nat D. Ayer]]
* "[[I'm Sorry I Made You Cry]]" w.m. Nicholas J. Clesi
* "[[Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There]]" w. [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]] & [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "[[The Laddies Who Fought And Won]]" w.m. [[Harry Lauder]]
* "[[Li'l Liza Jane]]" w.m. [[Countess Ada De Lachau]]
* "Love Me At Twilight" w. William Jerome & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Bert Grant (composer)|Bert Grant]]
* "[[O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian]]" w. [[Al Dubin]] m. Rennie Cormack
* "[[Poor Butterfly]]" w. [[John Golden]] m. [[Raymond Hubbell]]
* "[[Pretty Baby (Tony Jackson song)|Pretty Baby]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Tony Jackson (jazz musician)|Tony Jackson]] & [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "[[Roses of Picardy]]" w. [[Frederic Weatherly]] m. [[Haydn Wood]]<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Stage|date=19 March 1959|page=6|title=Haydn Wood Dies}}</ref>
[[Image:The Top Liner Rag.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Joseph Lamb (composer)|Joseph Lamb]]'s 1916 "The Top Liner Rag", a [[Classic Rag|classic rag]]]]
* "[[Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty]]" w.m. A. J. Mills, [[Fred Godfrey (songwriter)|Fred Godfrey]] & [[Bennett Scott]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Jason Wilson|title=Soldiers of Song: The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|year=2012|isbn=9781554588824|page=186}}</ref>
* "[[What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?]]" w. [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]] & Howard Johnson m. [[James V. Monaco]]

==Hit recordings==
[[Image:EmersonSweatman.png|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Wilber Sweatman]] record]]
*"[[O Sole Mio]]" by [[Enrico Caruso]]
*"Santa Lucia" by Enrico Caruso
*"[[Somewhere a Voice is Calling]]" by [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]]
*"Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" by [[Al Jolson]]
*"[[I Love a Piano]]" by [[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]]
*"[[Pretty Baby (Tony Jackson song)|Pretty Baby]]" by Billy Murray
*"I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" by [[Marion Harris]]
*"[[Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song)|Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)]]" by James F. Harrison
*"[[There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding]]" by James F. Harrison
*"Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" by Charles Harrison

==Classical music==
* [[Kurt Atterberg]] – Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"
* [[Béla Bartók]] – Suite for Piano
* [[Ernest Bloch]] – 
**''Israel Symphony''
**String Quartet No. 1
* [[Lili Boulanger]] – ''Psaume 24''
* [[Claude Debussy]] – [[Sonata for flute, viola and harp (Debussy)|Sonata for flute, viola, and harp]]
* [[Frederick Delius]] – Cello Sonata
* [[George Enescu]] – Piano Trio in A minor
* [[Alexander Glazunov]] – ''Karelian Legend''
* [[Jesus Guridi]] – ''Una aventura de Don Quijote''
* [[Paul Hindemith]] – Cello Concerto in E-flat, Op. 3
* [[Ludvig Holm]] – Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
* [[Charles Ives]] – [[Symphony No. 4 (Ives)|Fourth Symphony]]
* [[Scott Joplin]]
** Symphony No. 1 (lost)
** Piano Concerto (lost)
* [[Erkki Melartin]] – Symphony no 5 in A minor, Op. 90 ("Sinfonia brevis")
* [[Henrique Oswald]] – [[Cello Sonata No. 2 (Oswald)|Sonata-Fantasia in E-flat major, Op. 44]] (cello and piano)
* [[Hubert Parry]] – "[[And did those feet in ancient time|Jerusalem]]"
* [[Siegfried Salomon]] – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G minor
* [[Igor Stravinsky]] – ''[[Renard (Stravinsky)|Renard]]'': Burlesque for 4 pantomimes and chamber orchestra
* [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] –
**Second Cello Sonata
**[[String Quartet No. 3 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 3]]
**[[Symphony No. 1 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 1]] "O imprevisto" (The Unforeseen)

==[[Opera]]==
*[[Rutland Boughton]] – ''The Round Table''
*[[Enrique Granados]] – ''[[Goyescas (opera)|Goyescas]]'',  [[Metropolitan Opera]], New York City, 28 January
*[[Erwin Lendvai]] – ''Elga''
*[[Manuel Penella]] – ''El Gato Montés''
*[[Felix Weingartner]] – ''Dame Kobold''
*[[Charles Villiers Stanford]] and [[Cairns James]], ''The Critic, or An Opera Rehearsed''

==Film==
*[[Joseph Carl Breil]] – ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''
*[[Victor Herbert]] – ''[[The Fall of a Nation]]''

==[[Jazz]]==
{{Main|1916 in jazz}}

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[Betty (musical)|Betty]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Lunt-Fontanne Theatre|Globe Theatre]] on [[October 2]] and ran for 63 performances
* ''[[Broadway And Buttermilk]]'' Broadway production opened at [[Maxine Elliott's Theatre]] on [[August 15]] and ran for 23 performances
* ''[[Chu Chin Chow]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at [[His Majesty's Theatre, London|His Majesty's Theatre]] on [[August 31]] and ran for a record 2238 performances.
* ''[[Follow Me (musical)|Follow Me]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on [[November 29]] and ran for 78 performances
* ''[[Pell Mell (musical)|Pell Mell]]'' London production opened at the [[Ambassadors Theatre (London)|Ambassadors Theatre]] on [[June 5]] and ran for 298 performances
* ''[[Robinson Crusoe Jr]]'' [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production opened on [[February 17]] at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] and ran for 139 performances
* ''[[So Long Letty (musical)|So Long Letty]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on [[October 23]] and ran for 96 performances
* ''[[Sybil (operetta)|Sybil]]'' Broadway production opened on [[January 10]] at the [[Liberty Theatre (New York City)|Liberty Theatre]] and ran for 168 performances.  Starring [[Julia Sanderson]], [[Donald Brian]] and [[Joseph Cawthorn]].
* ''[[We're All in It]]'' London [[revue]] opened at the [[Empire, Leicester Square|Empire Theatre]] on [[July 13]]
*''[[Ziegfeld Follies|Ziegfeld Follies Of 1916]]'' Broadway [[revue]] opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on [[June 12]] and ran for 112 performances

==Births==
*[[January 4]] – [[Slim Gaillard]], jazz musician (d. 1991)
*[[January 9]] – [[Vic Mizzy]], television theme composer (d. 2009)
*[[January 14]] – [[Maxwell Davis]], R&B musician (d. 1970)
*[[January 15]] – [[Artie Shapiro]], jazz bassist (d. 2003)
*[[January 16]] – [[Rudolf Benesh]], developer of the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing (d. 1975)
*[[January 22]] – [[Henri Dutilleux]], [[France|French]] composer (d. 2013)
*[[February 5]] – [[Daniel Santos (singer)|Daniel Santos]], singer (d. 1992)
*[[February 8]] – [[Jimmy Skidmore]], jazz musician (d. 1998)
*[[February 22]] – [[Pedro Junco]], composer (d. 1939)
*[[February 29]] – [[Dinah Shore]], singer (d. 1994)
*[[March 6]] – [[Red Callender]], jazz musician (d. 1992)
*[[March 10]] – [[Jan Håkan Åberg]], organist and composer (d. 2012)
*[[March 15]] – [[Harry James]], bandleader (d. 1983)
*[[March 17]] – [[Ray Ellington]], singer and bandleader (d. 1985)
*[[March 21]] – [[Bismillah Khan]], shehnai player (d. 2006)
*[[March 26]] – [[Harry Rabinowitz]], screen music composer and conductor (d. 2016)
*[[April 11]] – [[Alberto Ginastera]], Argentinian composer (d. 1983)<ref>{{cite web |title=Alberto Ginastera {{!}} Argentine composer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberto-Ginastera |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=27 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[April 12]] – [[Russell Garcia (composer)|Russell Garcia]], film score composer (d. 2011)
*[[April 14]] – [[Denis ApIvor]], composer (d. 2004)
*[[April 15]] – [[Lee Vincent]], DJ and orchestra leader (d. 2007)
*[[April 22]] – [[Yehudi Menuhin]], violinist (d. 1999)
*[[April 30]] – [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Robert Shaw]], conductor (d. 1999)
*[[May 6]] – [[Adriana Caselotti]], voice (and model) for [[Snow White (Disney character)|Snow White]] (d. 1997)
*[[May 9]] – [[Bernard Rose (musician)|Bernard Rose]], organist and composer (d. 1996)
*[[May 10]] – [[Milton Babbitt]], composer (d. 2011)
*[[May 17]] – [[Paul Quinichette]], jazz musician (d. 1983)
*[[May 21]] – [[Lydia Mendoza]], guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
*[[May 26]] – [[Moondog]], singer, percussionist, composer and inventor of musical instruments (d. 1999)
*[[June 8]] – [[Freddie Webster]], jazz musician (d. 1947)
*[[June 15]] – [[Horacio Salgán]], tango pianist, composer and orchestra leader (d. 2016)
*[[June 17]] – [[Einar Englund]], [[Finland|Finnish]] composer (died 1999)
*[[June 26]] – [[Giuseppe Taddei]], operatic baritone (d. 2010)
*[[July 9]]
**<!--July 9-->[[Dean Goffin]], Salvation Army composer (d. 1984)
**<!--July 9-->[[Edward Heath]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (d. 2005)
*[[July 12]] – [[Sam Taylor (saxophonist)|Sam Taylor]], jazz musician (d.1980)
*[[July 16]] – [[Miles Copeland, Jr.]], musician and CIA agent (d. 1991)
*[[July 24]] – [[Bob Eberly]], American singer with [[Jimmy Dorsey]]'s Orchestra (d. 1981)
*[[July 28]] – [[Rosina Raisbeck]], operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 2006)
* [[July 29]] – [[Charlie Christian]], jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
* [[August 3]] – [[Claude Demetrius]], songwriter (d. 1988)
*[[August 18]] – [[Moura Lympany]], pianist (d. 2005)
*[[August 21]] – [[Bill Lee (singer)|Bill Lee]], singer (d. 1980)
*[[August 22]] – [[Paddy Fahey]], Irish fiddler (d. 2019)
* [[August 24]] – [[Léo Ferré]], singer, songwriter and composer (d. 1993)
*[[August 27]] – [[Martha Raye]], American singer and actress (d. 1994)
*[[September 8]] – [[René Touzet]], pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 2003)
*[[September 16]] – [[M. S. Subbulakshmi]], [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] vocalist (d. 2004)
*[[October 3]] – [[David Mann (songwriter)|David Mann]], songwriter (d. 2002)
*[[October 19]]
**<!--October 19-->[[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]], composer and conductor (d. 1968)
**<!--October 19-->[[Emil Gilels]], [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] classical [[pianist]] (d. 1985)
* [[October 28]] – [[Bill Harris (trombonist)|Bill Harris]], jazz trombonist (d. 1973)
* [[October 29]] – [[Hadda Brooks]], pianist, singer and composer (d. 2002)
* [[November 6]] – [[Ray Conniff]], trombonist and bandleader (d. 2002)
* [[November 10]] – [[Billy May]], composer and arranger (d. 2004)
* [[November 15]] – [[Greta Gynt]], singer, dancer and actress (d. 2000)
* [[November 29]] - [[Helen Clare (singer)|Helen Clare]], British singer (d. 2018)
* [[December 11]] – [[Perez Prado]], Cuban bandleader and composer (d. 1989)
* [[December 15]] – [[Buddy Cole (musician)|Buddy Cole]], jazz musician (d. 1964)
*[[December 18]] – [[Betty Grable]], star of many Hollywood musicals (d. 1973)
*[[December 25]]
**[[Oscar Moore]], jazz guitarist (d. 1981)
**[[Graciela Naranjo]], Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001)
*[[December 27]] – [[Johnny Frigo]], American jazz violinist and bassist (d. 2007)

==Deaths==
*[[January 16]] – [[Charles A. Zimmerman]], composer (b. 1861)
*[[January 21]] – [[George Musgrove]], theatre and opera producer (b. 1854)<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Gittins |first=Jean |year=1974|id=A050371b|title= Musgrove, George (1854–1916)|access-date=1 November 2009 }}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – [[Adolphe Biarent]], cellist and composer (b. 1871)
*[[February 5]] – [[Francesco Marconi]], operatic tenor (b. 1853/1855)
*[[February 20]] – [[Giovanni Sbriglia]], operatic tenor and singing teacher (b. 1832)
*[[March 7]] – [[José Ferrer (guitarist)|José Ferrer]], guitarist (b. 1835)
*[[March 24]] – [[Enrique Granados]], composer (b. [[1867 in music|1867]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Walton|title=The Last Journey of Enrique Granados|publisher=Opus Publications|page=71}}</ref>
*[[May 11]] – [[Max Reger]], composer (b. 1873)
*[[May 13]]
**<!--May 13-->[[Clara Louise Kellogg]], singer (b. 1842)
**<!--May 13-->[[Jessie MacLachlan]], Gaelic singer (b. [[1866 in music|1866]])<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Innes |first2=Sue |last3=Reynolds |first3=Sian |last4=Pipes |first4=Rose |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&dq=Jessie+MacLachlan&pg=PA233 |title=Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women |date=27 June 2007 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2660-1 |pages=233}}</ref>
*[[May 28]] – [[Albert Lavignac]], musicologist and composer (b. 1846)
*[[June 5]] – [[Mildred J. Hill]], songwriter (b. 1859)
*[[June 10]] – [[Max Vogrich]], pianist and composer (b. 1852)
*[[August 2]] – [[Hamish MacCunn]], composer (b. 1868)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alasdair Jamieson|title=The Music of Hamish Maccunn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntoq4bpp7QQC&pg=PA46|year=2013|isbn=978-1-4772-3504-1|pages=46}}</ref>
*[[August 5]] – [[George Butterworth]], composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Barlow|title=Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_5-fAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Toccata Press|isbn=978-0-907689-42-3}}</ref>
*[[August 8]] – [[Franz Eckert]], composer (b. 1852)
*[[September 10]] – [[Friedrich Gernsheim]], pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
*[[September 15]] – [[Julius Fučík (composer)|Julius Fučík]], composer (b. 1872)
*[[November 2]] – [[Marie Wieck]], pianist, singer, piano teacher and composer (b. 1832)
*[[November 13]] – [[Frederick Septimus Kelly]], composer and Olympic rower (b. 1881) (killed in action)<ref>{{cite book|author=Frederick Septimus Kelly|title=Race Against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kelly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErX1-eHqmVUC|year=2004|publisher=National Library Australia|isbn=978-0-642-10740-4}}</ref>
*[[November 23]] – [[Eduard Nápravník]], conductor and composer (b. 1839)
*[[November 24]] – [[John Francis Barnett]], composer and music teacher (b. 1837)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095448474 |title=John Francis Barnett |access-date=9 September 2017 |archive-date=12 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112131126/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095448474 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
*[[November 26]] – [[Charlie Case]], vaudeville entertainer (b. c. 1860)
*[[December 2]] – [[Francesco Paolo Tosti]], composer and music teacher (b. 1846)
*[[December 5]] – [[Hans Richter (conductor)|Hans Richter]], conductor (b. 1843)
*[[December 20]] – [[William W. Gilchrist]], composer (b. 1846)
*[[December 28]] – [[Eduard Strauss]], composer (b. 1835)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Randel |first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=30 October 2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-25572-2 |page=866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXILEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT866 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[December 31]] – [[Ernst Rudorff]], composer and music teacher (b. 1840)

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