Editing 1925 in music

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{{YYYY music|1925}}
{{Year nav topic5|1925|music |radio|television|film}}
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year [[1925]].
[[File:First Electrical Recording You May Be Lonesome Columbia Flag Label.jpg|right|thumb|Recordings made by the new electric microphone process are released in 1925; [[Art Gillham]] is featured on this one]]

==Specific locations==
*[[1925 in British music]]
*[[1925 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1925 in country music]]
*[[1925 in jazz]]

==Events==
* [[January 1]] – First day of radio broadcasting in [[Sweden]]: [[Gaston Borch]] conducts the Skandia Cinema Orchestra in the country's first broadcast of orchestral music.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historia: Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=3988&artikel=5295220|publisher=Sveriges Radios|accessdate=2012-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220045/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=3988&artikel=5295220|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Art Gillham]] (The Whispering Pianist) records the first electrical recordings to be released for [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] using the Western Electric system (Master 140125-7 issued on Columbia 328-D).
* [[February 26]] – Eight Popular Victor Artists record "A Miniature Concert," the first ''recorded'' (cf March 16 entry below) electrical recording by the [[Victor Talking Machine]]; the artists are [[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]], Frank Banta, [[Henry Burr]], Albert Campbell, [[Frank Croxton]], John Meyer, Monroe Silver, and [[Rudy Wiedoeft]].<ref name=victorlog>Victor Recording Book log, pp. 4761A, 4783, 4791.</ref>
* [[March 1]] – [[Edgard Varèse]]'s ''[[Intégrales]]'' is premiered in [[New York City]].
* [[March 16]] – The Mask and Wig Club Double Male Quartet, with orchestra directed by [[Nathaniel Shilkret]] record "Joan of Arkansas," the first ''issued'' (cf February 26 entry above) electrical recording by the [[Victor Talking Machine]], with catalog number 19626-A; the B-side, from the same Mask and Wig Club production, is recorded March 20 by the International Novelty Orchestra, also directed by Shilkret.<ref name= victorlog/><ref name=gelatt>Gelatt, Roland, ''The Fabulous Phonograph'', MacMillan, New York, 1954. {{ISBN|0-02-542960-4}}</ref>
*[[March 20]] – [[Charles Wakefield Cadman]]'s opera ''[[The Garden of Mystery]]'' is premiered  in New York City.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Hundred Years of Grand Opera in New York, 1825-1925: A Record of Performances|last=Mattfeld|first=Julius|location=New York|publisher=New York Public Library|year=1927|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Hundred_Years_of_Grand_Opera_in_New_Yo/F6gxAAAAMAAJ?hl=en|page=55|oclc=457461576}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[L'Enfant et les sortilèges]]'' is premiered in [[Monte Carlo]].
* [[April 3]] – [[Gustav Holst]]'s [[opera]] ''[[At the Boar's Head]]'' is premiered in [[Manchester]].
* [[June 6]] – [[Sergei Prokofiev]]'s [[Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev)|Symphony No. 2]] is premiered in [[Paris]].
* [[November 28]] – The weekly [[country music]] [[Radio programming|radio program]] ''[[Grand Ole Opry]]'' is first broadcast on [[WSM (AM)|WSM radio]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], as the "WSM Barn Dance".
* [[December 11]] – [[Carl Nielsen]]'s [[Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen)|Symphony No. 6]], the ''Sinfonia semplice'', is premiered in [[Copenhagen]].
* [[December 14]] – [[Alban Berg]]'s opera ''[[Wozzeck]]'' is given its first complete performance, in [[Berlin]], conducted by [[Erich Kleiber]].
*[[Joseph Canteloube]] founds a group called La Bourrée in Paris to publicize the folklore and other attractions of the [[Auvergne (province)|Auvergne]].
* [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]], [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], and [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]] [[phonograph]] companies switch from old acoustic mechanical recording methods to new electric microphone technology, one of the most important advances in recording history (see Shilkret<ref name=shilkret1>Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, ''Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. {{ISBN|0-8108-5128-8}}</ref> for a first-hand account of its benefits).
* [[Blind Lemon Jefferson]]'s recording career begins.
* [[Lonnie Johnson (musician)|Lonnie Johnson]]'s recording career begins.
* [[Louis Armstrong]] leaves [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s Orchestra, returns to [[Chicago, Illinois]], and makes his first records under his own name, leading Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five.

==Published popular music==
* "Adios, Mariquita Linda" w. (Eng 1939) Ray Gilbert  (Sp) Marcos A. Jimenez m. Marcos A. Jimenez
* "Alone at Last" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Ted Fio Rito]]
* "[[Always (1925 song)|Always]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Bam, Bam, Bamy Shore" w. Mort Dixon m. [[Ray Henderson]]
* "Boneyard Shuffle" m. [[Hoagy Carmichael]] & Irving Mills
* "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. George W. Meyer
* "By the Light of the Stars" w.m. Arthur Sizemore, George A. Little, & [[Larry Shay]]
* "Bye and Bye" w. [[Lorenz Hart]]  m. [[Richard Rodgers]]
* "[[Cecilia (Dreyer and Ruby song)|Cecilia]]" w. Herman Ruby m. Dave Dreyer
* "Cheatin' on Me" w. [[Jack Yellen]] m. [[Lew Pollack]]
* "[[Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!]]" w. [[Billy Rose]] & Ballard MacDonald m. [[Joseph Meyer (songwriter)|Joseph Meyer]]
* "Collegiate" w.m. [[Moe Jaffe]] & [[Nat Bonx]]
* "[[A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You]]" w. [[Billy Rose]] & [[Al Dubin]] m. [[Joseph Meyer (songwriter)|Joseph Meyer]]
* "[[Davenport Blues]]" m. [[Bix Beiderbecke]]
* "[[Dinah (song)|Dinah]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Harry Akst]]
* "[[Don't Bring Lulu]]" w. [[Billy Rose]] & [[Lew Brown]] m. [[Ray Henderson]]
* "Down by the Winegar Works" w.m. [[Don Bestor]], Roger Lewis & [[Walter Donovan]]
* "[[Drifting and Dreaming (song)|Drifting and Dreaming]]" w. [[Haven Gillespie]], m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]], Erwin R. Schmidt & Loyal Curtis
* "D'Ye Love Me?" w. [[Otto Harbach]] & [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Jerome Kern]].  Introduced by [[Marilyn Miller]] in the musical ''[[Sunny (musical)|Sunny]]''
* "[[Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (song)|Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Ray Henderson]]
* "Flamin' Mamie" w.m. Fred Rose & [[Paul Whiteman]]
* "Freshie" w. Harold Berg m. [[Jesse Greer]]
* "Grandpa's Spells" m. [[Jelly Roll Morton]]
* "Headin' for Louisville" w. [[B. G. De Sylva]] m. [[Joseph Meyer (songwriter)|Joseph Meyer]]
* "[[Here in My Arms]]" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]
* "[[I Found a New Baby]]" w.m. [[Jack Palmer (composer)|Jack Palmer]] & [[Spencer Williams]]
* "[[I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (song)|I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg]]" w. [[Fritz Löhner-Beda]] & [[Ernst Neubach]] m. [[Fred Raymond]]
* "I Love My Baby" w. Bud Green m. [[Harry Warren]]
* "I Miss My Swiss" w. [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] m. [[Abel Baer]]
* "I Never Knew" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Ted Fio Rito]]
* "I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "Ida, I Do" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Isham Jones]]
* "If I Had a Girl Like You" w. [[Billy Rose]] & Mort Dixon m. [[Ray Henderson]]
* "[[If You Knew Susie]]" w. [[B. G. De Sylva]] m. [[Joseph Meyer (songwriter)|Joseph Meyer]]
* "I'm A Little Bit Fonder of You" w.m. [[Irving Caesar]]
* "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston" w.m. Roy Turk & Lou Handman
* "I'm Gonna Cry" [[Martha Boswell]]
* "I'm in Love Again" w.m. [[Cole Porter]]
* "I'm Knee-Deep in Daisies (And Head Over Heels In Love)" Ash, Shay, Goodwin, Little, Stanley
* "[[I'm Sitting on Top of the World]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Ray Henderson]]
* "In Your Green Hat" w. [[Jack Yellen]] m. [[Milton Ager]]
* "I've Confessed to the Breeze" w. [[Otto Harbach]] m. [[Vincent Youmans]]
* "Jalousie" (a.k.a. "Jealousy") w. Vera Bloom m. [[Jacob Gade]]
* "Just a Cottage Small" w. [[B. G. De Sylva]] m. James F. Hanley
* "Keep Your Skirts Down, Mary Ann" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Robert A. King & [[Ray Henderson]]
* "Leander" w. Harry Graham m. Jean Gilbert from the [[musical theater]] production 'Katja The Dancer'
* "Let It Rain! Let It Pour!" w. Cliff Friend m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "[[Looking For a Boy]]" w. [[Ira Gershwin]] m. [[George Gershwin]]. Introduced by [[Queenie Smith]] in the musical ''[[Tip-Toes]]''
* "Love Me Tonight" w. Brian Hooker m. [[Rudolf Friml]]
* "[[Manhattan (song)|Manhattan]]" w. [[Lorenz Hart]]  m. [[Richard Rodgers]]
* "Moonlight and Roses" w. [[Ben Black (composer)|Ben Black]] m. Neil Moret (adapted without permission from a composition by [[Edwin Lemare]])
* "My Bundle of Love" w.m. [[Georgie Price]] & [[Abner Silver]]
* "My Sweetie Turned Me Down" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "My Yiddishe Momme" w. [[Jack Yellen]] m. [[Lew Pollack]]
* "Neapolitan Nights (Nights Of Splendour)" w. [[Harry D. Kerr]] m. J. S. Zumecnik
* "[[No, No, Nanette (song)|No, No, Nanette]]" w. [[Otto Harbach]] m. [[Vincent Youmans]]
* "[[Oh, How I Miss You Tonight]]" w.m. [[Benny Davis]], [[Joe Burke (composer)|Joe Burke]] & [[Mark Fisher (songwriter)|Mark Fisher]]
* "Only a Rose" w. Brian Hooker m. [[Rudolf Friml]]
* "Paddlin' Madelin Home" w.m. [[Harry M. Woods]]
* "Pal of My Cradle Days" w. Marshall Montgomery m. [[Al Piantadosi]]
* "The Pearls" m. [[Jelly Roll Morton]]
* "Poor Little Rich Girl" w.m. [[Noël Coward]]
* "Remember" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Roll 'Em Girls" w.m. Archie Fletcher & Bobby Heath
* "Rose of Samarkand" m. [[Eric Coates]]
* "[[Save Your Sorrow|Save Your Sorrow (for Tomorrow)]]" w. [[B. G. De Sylva]] m.  [[Al Sherman]]
* "[[See See Rider Blues]]" by [[Ma Rainey]]
* "Sentimental Me" w. [[Lorenz Hart]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]
* "[[Shake That Thing]]" Charlie Jackson
* "Show Me the Way to Go Home" w.m. Irving King
* "Sleepy Time Gal" w. [[Joseph R. Alden]] & [[Raymond B. Egan]] m. [[Ange Lorenzo]] & [[Richard A. Whiting]]
* "[[Some Day (1925 song)|Some Day]]" w. Brian Hooker m. [[Rudolf Friml]]
* "Sometime" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Ted Fio Rito]]
* "Song of the Flame" w. [[Otto Harbach]] & [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[George Gershwin]] & Herbert Stothart
* "Song of the Vagabonds" w. Brian Hooker m. [[Rudolf Friml]]
* "Sunny" w. [[Otto Harbach]] & [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Sweet and Low-Down" w. [[Ira Gershwin]] m. [[George Gershwin]]
* "[[Sweet Georgia Brown]]" w.m. [[Ben Bernie]], [[Maceo Pinkard]] & [[Kenneth Casey]]
* "[[Tea for Two (song)|Tea for Two]]" w. [[Irving Caesar]] m. [[Vincent Youmans]]
* "[[That Certain Feeling]]" w. [[Ira Gershwin]] m. [[George Gershwin]]
* "That Certain Party" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "That Saxophone Waltz" w. Jules Mingo & Berry J. Sisk m. Berry J. Sisk
* "Then I'll Be Happy" w. Sidney Clare & [[Lew Brown]] m. Cliff Friend
* "Too Many Rings Around Rosie" w. [[Irving Caesar]] m. [[Vincent Youmans]]
* "Two Little Bluebirds" w. [[Otto Harbach]] & [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "[[Ukulele Lady]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Richard A. Whiting|Richard Whiting]]
* "Valentine" w. Albert Willemetz (Fr) Herbert Reynolds (Eng) m. Henri Christin
* "Waters of the Perkiomen" w. [[Al Dubin]] m. F. Henri Klickmann
* "When the Sergeant Major's on Parade" w.m. [[Ernest Longstaffe]]
* "Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter?" w.m. [[Chick Endor]]
* "[[Who? (song)|Who?]]" w. [[Otto Harbach]] & [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Why Do I Love You?" w. [[B. G. De Sylva]] & [[Ira Gershwin]] m. [[George Gershwin]]
* "The Wreck of the Shenandoah" w.m. [[Vernon Dalhart]], [[Carson Robison]], and Elmer S. Hughes.
* "Yearning" w. [[Benny Davis]] m. Joe Burke
* "[[Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)|Yes Sir, That's My Baby]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]

==Top Popular Recordings 1925==

The following songs achieved the highest positions in [[Billboard Hot 100#History|Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954]] and record sales reported on the "[[Discography of American Historical Recordings]]" website during 1924:<ref name=PopMemories>{{Cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 |publisher=Record Research |year=1986}}</ref>
Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! <big>Rank</big>
! <big>Artist</big>
! <big>Title</big>
! <big>Label</big>
! <big>Recorded</big>
! <big>Released</big>
! <big>Chart Positions</big>
|-
| 1 || [[Isham Jones]], Guest Conductor With [[Ray Miller (bandleader)|Ray Miller's Orchestra]] || "[[I'll See You in My Dreams (1924 song)|I'll See You in My Dreams]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunswick matrix 14389-14392. I'll see you in my dreams / Isham Jones; Ray Miller Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000218958/14389-14392-Ill_see_you_in_my_dreams |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Brunswick 2788 || {{Start date|1924|12|4}} || {{Start date|1925|2}} ||  US BB 1925 #2, US #1 for 7 weeks, 16 total weeks
|-
| 2 || [[Gene Austin]] || "[[Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)|Yes Sir, That's My Baby]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-32469. Yes sir, that's my baby / Gene Austin; Billy "Uke" Carpenter - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800006724/B-32469-Yes_sir_thats_my_baby |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19656 || {{Start date|1924|4|24}} || {{Start date|1925|7}} || US BB 1925 #1, US #1 for 7 weeks, 17 total weeks
|-
| 3 || [[Ben Bernie|Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra]] || "[[Sweet Georgia Brown]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunswick matrix 573W-576W. Sweet Georgia Brown / Ben Bernie; Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000219402/573W-576W-Sweet_Georgia_Brown |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Vocalion 15002 || {{Start date|1925|3|19}} || {{Start date|1925|6}} || US BB 1925 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 13 total weeks  
|-
| 4 || [[Vernon Dalhart]] || "[[The Prisoner's Song]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-30633. The prisoner's song / Vernon Dalhart - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800004795/B-30633-The_prisoners_song |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19427 || {{Start date|1924|8|13}} || {{Start date|1924|11}} || US BB 1925 #3, US #1 for 5 weeks, 20 total weeks, 1,320,356 sales thru 1930,<ref name=victor>{{Cite web |title=The Victor Talking Machine Company |url=https://davidsarnoff.org/vtm-appendix11.html |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=davidsarnoff.org}}</ref> 7 more weeks at #1 1926
|-
| 5 || [[Eddie Cantor]] || "[[If You Knew Susie|If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia matrix W140499. If you knew Susie (Like I know Susie) / Eddie Cantor - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030264/W140499-If_you_knew_Susie_Like_I_know_Susie |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Columbia 364 || {{Start date|1925|7|18}} || {{Start date|1925|9}} || US BB 1925 #5, US #1 for 5 weeks, 12 total weeks
|-
| 6 || [[Al Jolson]] || "[[All Alone (Irving Berlin song)|All Alone]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunswick matrix 13864-13867. All alone / Al Jolson; Ray Miller Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000218788/13864-13867-All_alone |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Brunswick 2743 || {{Start date|1924|10|2}} || {{Start date|1924|12}} || US BB 1925 #6, US #1 for 5 weeks, 9 total weeks
|-
| 7 || [[Ben Selvin|The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin Orchestra)]] || "[[Manhattan (song)|Manhattan]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia matrix W140765. Manhattan / The Knickerbockers - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030530/W140765-Manhattan |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Columbia 422 || {{Start date|1925|7|15}} || {{Start date|1925|8}} || US BB 1925 #7, US #1 for 4 weeks, 10 total weeks
|-
| 8 || [[Ben Selvin|The Cavaliers (Ben Selvin Orchestra)]] || "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia matrix W140518. Oh, how I miss you tonight / The Cavaliers - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030283/W140518-Oh_how_I_miss_you_tonight |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Columbia 359 || {{Start date|1925|4|11}} || {{Start date|1925|6}} || US BB 1925 #8, US #1 for 3 weeks, 12 total weeks
|-
| 9 || [[Marion Harris]] || "[[Tea for Two (song)|Tea for Two]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunswick matrix 13957-13959. Tea for two / Marion Harris - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000218820/13957-13959-Tea_for_two |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Brunswick 2747 || {{Start date|1924|10|15}} || {{Start date|1925|1}} || US BB 1925 #9, US #1 for 3 weeks, 11 total weeks
|-
| 10 || [[Paul Whiteman|Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra]] || "All Alone"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-30817. All alone waltz / Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800004994/B-30817-All_alone_waltz |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19487  || {{Start date|1924|9|12}} || {{Start date|1924|12}} || US BB 1925 #10, US #1 for 3 weeks, 9 total weeks, 835,586 sales (possibly combined 10 & 11)<ref name=victor />
|-
| 11 || [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]] || "All Alone"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-31523. All alone / John McCormack - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800005771/B-31523-All_alone |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor Red Seal 1067 || {{Start date|1924|12|17}} || {{Start date|1925|3}} || US BB 1925 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks
|-
| 12 || [[Ted Lewis (musician)|Ted Lewis and His Band]] || "O, Katharina"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia matrix 140374. O Katharina! / Ted Lewis and his Band - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030139/140374-O_Katharina |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Columbia 295 || {{Start date|1925|1|29}} || {{Start date|1925|4}} || US BB 1925 #12, US #1 for 1 week, 9 total weeks
|-
| 13 || [[Isham Jones|Isham Jones Orchestra]] || "[[Remember (Irving Berlin song)|Remember]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunswick matrix E16467-E16469. Remember / Isham Jones Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000220150/E16467-E16469-Remember |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> ||  Brunswick 2963 || {{Start date|1925|10|1}} || {{Start date|1925|11}} || US BB 1925 #13, US #1 for 7 weeks, 11 total weeks
|-
| 14 || [[Gene Austin]] || "Yearning (Just For You)"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-32092. Yearning (Just for you) / Gene Austin - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800006427/B-32092-Yearning_Just_for_you |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19625 || {{Start date|1925|2|12}} || {{Start date|1925|5}} || US BB 1925 #14, US #2 for 4 weeks, 8 total weeks
|-
| 15 || [[Nick Lucas]] || "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brunswick matrix E16456. Brown eyes—why are you blue? / Nick Lucas - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000220144/E16456-Brown_eyeswhy_are_you_blue |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Brunswick 2961 || {{Start date|1925|9|29}} || {{Start date|1925|10}} || US BB 1925 #15, US #2 for 3 weeks, 6 total weeks
|-
| 16 || [[Paul Whiteman|Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra]] || "[[Oh, Lady Be Good!]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-31555. Oh, lady be good! / Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800005803/B-31555-Oh_lady_be_good |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19551 || {{Start date|1924|12|29}} || {{Start date|1925|3}} || US BB 1925 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks
|-
| 17 || Paul  Whiteman and His Orchestra || "[[Indian Love Call]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-31415. Indian love call / Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800005658/B-31415-Indian_love_call |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19517 || {{Start date|1924|11|17}} || {{Start date|1925|1}} || US BB 1925 #22, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks, 526,884 sales<ref name=victor />
|-
| 18 || [[Bessie Smith]] || "[[St. Louis Blues (song)|The Saint Louis Blues]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia matrix 140241. St. Louis blues / Bessie Smith - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030007/140241-St._Louis_blues |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Columbia 14064 || {{Start date|1925|1|14}} || {{Start date|1925|6|13}} || US BB 1925 #25, US #3 for 1 week, 6 total week, 225,000 sales
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| 19 || [[Vincent Lopez|Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra]] || "[[I Want to Be Happy]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=OKeh matrix S-72717. I want to be happy / Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra; Vincent Lopez - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000204875/S-72717-I_want_to_be_happy |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Okeh 40175 || {{Start date|1924|7|31}} || {{Start date|1925|8}} || US BB 1925 #16, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks
|-
| 20 || [[Vernon Dalhart]] || "[[The Wreck of the Old 97]]"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Victor matrix B-30632. Wreck of the Old 97 / Vernon Dalhart - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800004793/B-30632-Wreck_of_the_Old_97 |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> || Victor 19427 || {{Start date|1924|8|13}} || {{Start date|1924|10|3}} || US BB 1925 #36, US #4 for 1 week, 8 total weeks, 1,085,985 sales thru 1930
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==Classical music==
*[[Isidor Achron]] – Violin Concerto No. 1
*[[Pedro Humberto Allende]] –
**''Mientras baja la nieve'', for voice and piano
**''El surtidor'', for voice and piano
**''A las nubes'', for voice and piano
**''Ojitas de pena'', for voice and piano
**''Tres Tonadas'', for orchestra
**''Tempo di minuetto'' in C major, for piano
**''Tempo de vals'', for harp
*[[Béla Bartók]] – ''[[Dance Suite (Bartók)|Dance Suite]]'' (version for piano of an orchestral work written in 1923)
*[[Ernest Bloch]] – Concerto Grosso No. 1, for piano and strings
*[[Frank Bridge]] –
**"Golden Hair", for voice and piano
**"Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
**''The Pneu World'', for cello and piano
**''Songs of Rabindranath Tagore'' (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
**''Vignettes de Marseille'', for piano
**''Winter Pastorale'', for piano
*[[Carlos Chávez]] –
**''Cake Walk'', for piano
**''Los cuatro soles'', ballet, for soprano and chamber orchestra
**''Energía'', for nine instruments
**''Foxtrot'', for piano
**''36'', for piano
*[[Aaron Copland]] – ''Music for the Theatre'', for chamber orchestra
*[[Henry Cowell]] –
**''The Banshee'', for string piano
**''Ensemble'', for two violins, two cellos, and thundersticks
**''Slow Jig'', for piano
*[[Frederick Delius]] – ''A Late Lark'', for voice and orchestra
*[[Edward Elgar]] –
**"The Herald", part-song, SATB
**"The Prince of Sleep", part-song, SATB
*[[Eduardo Fabini]] –
**''A mi río'', for mixed choir and orchestra
**''Luz mala'', for soprano and orchestra 
**''Triste No. 1'', version for orchestra
*[[John Fernström]] – Violin Concerto No. 1
*[[Jacob Gade]] – ''Jalousie'', for cello and piano
*[[George Gershwin]] – [[Piano Concerto (Gershwin)|Piano Concerto in F]]
*[[Leopold Godowsky]] – ''Java Suite''
*[[William Henry Harris]] – ''Faire Is the Heaven''
*[[Gustav Holst]] –
**"God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
**Hymns (4) for ''Songs of Praise'', for choir
**Motets (2), for choir
**''Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana'', for choir
**[[Terzetto for flute, oboe, and viola]]
*[[Herbert Howells]] – Piano Concerto No. 2
*[[Jacques Ibert]] – Concerto for cello and wind instruments
*[[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]] – [[Two Pieces for Piano (1925)|Two Pieces for Piano 1925]]
*[[Ernst Krenek]] –
**''Die Jahreszeiten'', Op. 35, for choir
**''Mammon'', Op. 37, ballet, for orchestra
**''Der vertauschte Cupido'', Op. 38, ballet, for orchestra 
*[[Bohuslav Martinů]] – String Quartet No. 2
*[[Carl Nielsen]] – [[Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen)|Symphony No. 6]] ''Sinfonia Semplice''
*[[Juan Carlos Paz]] –
**Chorale in F-sharp major, for piano
**''Cuatro fugas sobre un tema'', for piano
**Piano Sonata No. 2, in B-flat minor
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] – [[Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev)|Symphony No. 2]], ''Iron and Steel''
*[[Ottorino Respighi]] –
**''Concerto in modo misolidio'', for piano and orchestra
**''Poema autunnale'', for violinand orchestra
**''Rossiniana'', suite for orchestra
*[[Albert Roussel]] –
**Duo, for bassoon and contrabass
**''Segovia'', Op. 29, for guitar
**Serenade, Op. 30, for flute, string trio, and harp
*[[Arnold Schoenberg]] –
**''Drei Satiren'', Op. 28, for SATB choir with viola, cello, and piano
**''Vier Stücke'', Op. 27, for SATB choir with clarinet, mandolin, violin, and cello
*[[Erwin Schulhoff]] – Symphony No. 1, String Quartet No. 2 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070414122127/http://www.musica.cz/comp/schulhoff.htm])
*[[Ruth Crawford Seeger]] –
**''The Adventures of Tom Thumb'', for piano
**Piano Preludes Nos. 1–5
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – ''[[Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 1]]''
*[[Jean Sibelius]] –
**''Ett ensamt skidspår'', for reciting voice and piano
**''Herran siunaus'', for choir and organ
**''Intrada'', for organ, Op. 111, No. 1
**''Kolme johdantovuorolaulua'', for choir and organ
**''Morceau romantique sur un motif de M. Jacob de Julin'', for orchestra
**''Narciss'', for voice and piano
**''Skolsång'', for choir
**''Skyddskårsmarsch'', for choir
**''[[The Tempest (Sibelius)|Stormen]]'' [The Tempest], Op. 109, incidental music for Shakespeare's play
*[[Igor Stravinsky]] –
**Serenade in A, for piano
**Suite No. 1, for small orchestra
**Suite, "d’après thèmes, fragments et pièces de Giambattista Pergolesi", for violin and piano
*[[Marcel Tournier]] – ''Images'' No. 1, Op. 29; ''Etude de Concert "Au Matin"''
*[[Joaquín Turina]] –
**''La oración del torero'', Op. 34, for lute quartet, also arranged for string quartet or string orchestra
**''La venta de los gatos'', Op. 32, for piano
*[[Edgard Varèse]] – ''Intégrales''
*[[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] – 
**''Concerto Accademico'' for violin and strings 
**''[[Flos Campi]]'', for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
**Hymns (5) for ''Songs of Praise'', for choir
**''Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan'', for voice and piano
**''Three Songs from Shakespeare'', for voice and piano
**''Three Poems by Walt Whitman'', for baritone and piano 
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] –
**''[[Chôros No. 3]]'' ("Pica-páo"), for male choir or seven wind instruments, or both together
**''[[Chôros No. 5]]'' ("Alma brasileira"), for piano
**''[[Chôros No. 8]]'', for large orchestra and two pianos
**''Cirandinhas'', for piano
**''O Martírio dos Insetos'', for violin and orchestra
**''Sul America'', for piano
*[[William Walton]] – ''[[Portsmouth Point (Walton)|Portsmouth Point]]'', concert overture
*[[Kurt Weill]] – Violin Concerto
*[[Alberto Williams]] –
**''Canciones pasionales'', for voice and piano
**''Piezas modernas para los niños'', for piano
*[[Stefan Wolpe]] – Three Songs by [[Heinrich von Kleist]]

==[[Opera]]==
*[[Alban Berg]] – ''[[Wozzeck]]''
*[[Armstrong Gibbs]] – ''Blue Peter''
*[[Reynaldo Hahn]] – ''[[Mozart (comédie musicale)|Mozart]]''
*[[Maurice Ravel]] – ''[[L'enfant et les sortilèges]]''

==Film==
*[[Edmund Meisel]] – ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]''

==[[Jazz]]==
{{Main|1925 in jazz}}

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[Big Boy (musical)|Big Boy]]'' [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on [[January 7]] and later moved to the [[44th Street Theatre]] for a total run of 168 performances
* ''Boodle'' London production opened at the [[Empire, Leicester Square|Empire Theatre]] on [[March 10]] and ran for 94 performances
* ''[[By the Way (musical)|By the Way]]'' Broadway [[revue]] opened at the [[Embassy Five Theatre|Gaiety Theatre]] on December 28 and ran for 176 performances.  Starring [[Cicely Courtneidge]].
* ''[[The Cocoanuts]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Lyric Theatre (1903 New York City)|Lyric Theatre]] on [[December 8]] and ran for 375 performances
* ''[[Dearest Enemy]]'' (Music: [[Richard Rodgers]], Lyrics: [[Lorenz Hart]], Book: [[Herbert Fields]].  Broadway production opened at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on [[September 18]] and ran for 286 performances.  Starring [[Helen Hart (actress)|Helen Hart]] and [[Charles Purcell]].
* ''[[The Dollar Princess]]'' London revival
* ''[[Garrick Gaieties]]'' Broadway revue opened at the [[Garrick Theatre]] on [[June 8]] and ran for 211 performances
* ''[[Katja the Dancer]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened on [[February 21]] at the [[Embassy Five Theatre|Gaiety Theatre]] and ran for 505 performances
* ''[[Mercenary Mary]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Longacre Theatre]] on [[April 13]] and ran for 136 performances
* ''[[No, No, Nanette]]'' ([[Irving Caesar]], [[Otto Harbach]], and [[Vincent Youmans]])
** [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] on [[March 11]] and ran for 665 performances
**Broadway production opened at the [[Globe Theatre (New York)|Globe Theatre]] on [[September 16]] and ran for 321 performances
* ''[[On With the Dance (musical)|On With the Dance]]'' London revue opened at the [[London Pavilion|Pavilion]] on [[April 30]] and ran for 229 performances
* ''[[Rose-Marie]]'' London production opened at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] on [[March 20]] and ran for 851 performances
* ''[[Sunny (musical)|Sunny]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on [[September 22]] and ran for 517 performances
* ''[[Tip-Toes]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Liberty Theatre (New York, New York)|Liberty Theatre]] on [[December 28]] and ran for 194 performances
* ''[[The Vagabond King]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (New York, New York)|Casino Theatre]] on [[September 21]] and ran for 511 performances

==Births==
*[[January 13]] – [[Gwen Verdon]], singer and actress (d. 2000)
*[[February 7]] – [[Marius Constant]], composer and conductor (d. 2004)
*[[February 16]] – [[Carlos Paredes]], guitarist (d. 2004)
*[[February 17]] – [[Ron Goodwin]], film composer (d. 2003)
*[[February 19]] – [[Jindřich Feld]], composer and teacher (d. 2007)
*[[February 26]] – [[Delkash]], singer (d. 2004)
*[[March 4]] – [[Paul Mauriat]], [[French people|French]] musician (''Love Is Blue'') (d. 2006)
*[[March 8]] – [[Dennis Lotis]], South African-born British singer (d. 2023)
*[[March 14]] – [[Roy Haynes]], American drummer (d. 2024)
*[[March 22]] – [[Gerard Hoffnung]], cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959)
*[[March 26]] – [[Pierre Boulez]], French composer, conductor and author (d. 2016)
*[[April 2]] – [[Wilf Doyle]], accordionist (d. 2012)
*[[April 14]] – [[Gene Ammons]], jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
*[[April 26]] – [[Jørgen Ingmann]], guitarist (d. 2015)
*[[April 30]] – [[Johnny Horton]], American [[country music]] and [[rockabilly]] singer (d. [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[May 14]] – [[Boris Parsadanian]], [[Armenia]]n-[[Estonia]]n composer (d. 1997)
*[[May 15]] – [[Andrei Eshpai]], composer (d. 2015)
*[[May 22]] – [[James King (tenor)|James King]], tenor (d. 2005)
*[[May 23]] – [[Mac Wiseman]], American bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
*[[May 25]] – [[Aldo Clementi]], composer (d. 2011)
*[[May 28]] – [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]], ''Lieder'' singer (d. 2012)
*[[June 1]] – [[Marie Knight]], American singer (d. 2009)
*[[June 5]] – [[Bill Hayes (actor)|Bill Hayes]], American singer, later actor (d. 2024)
*[[June 25]] – [[Clifton Chenier]], [[zydeco]] accordionist (d. 1987)
*[[June 27]]
**[[Fiora Contino]], American opera conductor (d. 2017)
**[[Doc Pomus]], American songwriter (d. 1991)
*[[July 4]] – [[Cathy Berberian]], American mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1983)
*[[July 6]] – [[Bill Haley (musician)|Bill Haley]], American singer (d. 1981)
*[[July 11]]
**<!--July 11-->[[Charles Chaynes]], French classical composer (d. 2016)
**<!--July 11-->[[Mattiwilda Dobbs]], African American coloratura soprano (d. 2015)
**<!--July 11-->[[Nicolai Gedda]], Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)
*[[July 28]]
**<!--July 28-->[[Kenneth Alwyn]], conductor (d. 2020)
**<!--July 28-->[[André Boucourechliev]], composer (d. 1997)
*[[July 29]] – [[Mikis Theodorakis]], composer (d. 2021)
*[[July 30]] – [[Antoine Duhamel]], French composer (d. 2014)
*[[August 1]] – [[Cor Edskes]], Dutch organ builder and restorer (d. [[2015 in music|2015]])
*[[August 3]] – [[Dom Um Romão]], Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005)
*[[August 7]]
**<!--August 7--> [[Felice Bryant]], American songwriter (d. 2003)
**<!--August 7--> [[Julián Orbón]], Spanish Cuban composer (d. 1991)
*[[August 15]]
**<!--August 15-->[[Aldo Ciccolini]], pianist (d. 2015)
**<!--August 15-->[[Robert Massard]], French baritone
**<!--August 15-->[[Oscar Peterson]], pianist (d. 2007)
*[[August 27]] – [[Gordon Tobing]], Indonesian folk singer (d. 1993 in music)
*[[August 28]] – [[Donald O'Connor]], dancer, singer and actor (d. 2003)
*[[September 1]] – [[Art Pepper]], American jazz musician (d. 1982)
*[[September 2]] – [[Russ Conway]], English pianist (d. 2000)
*[[September 3]] – [[Hank Thompson (music)|Hank Thompson]], American country musician (d. 2007)
*[[September 6]] – [[Jimmy Reed]], American blues singer (d. 1976)
*[[September 8]] – [[Peter Sellers]], English comic actor and novelty singer (d. 1980)
*[[September 9]] – [[Soňa Červená]], Czech mezzo-soprano (d. 2023)
*[[September 10]] – [[Boris Tchaikovsky]], Russian composer (d. 1996)
*[[September 11]]
**<!--September 11-->[[Alan Bergman]], American songwriter
**<!--September 11-->Cliff Hall, English folk singer ([[The Spinners (UK band)|The Spinners]]) (d. 2008)
**<!--September 11-->[[Harry Somers]], Canadian composer (d. 1999)
*[[September 13]] – [[Mel Tormé]], American singer (d. 1999)
*[[September 16]] – [[B. B. King]], American blues musician (d. 2015)
*[[September 26]] – [[Marty Robbins]], American country singer (d. 1982)
*[[September 28]] – [[Cromwell Everson]], South African composer (d. 1991)
*[[September 29]] – [[Jane Stuart Smith]], American operatic soprano and hymnologist (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12142670/Jane-Stuart-Smith-opera-singer-obituary.html|title=Jane Stuart Smith, opera singer - obituary|date=February 5, 2016|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]}}</ref> 
*[[October 3]] – [[George Wein]], American jazz promoter and pianist (d. 2021)
*[[October 5]] – [[Herbert Kretzmer]], South African-born English songwriter (d. 2020)
*[[October 15]] – [[Mickey Baker]], American guitarist, half of the duo [[Mickey & Sylvia]] (d. 2012)
*[[October 16]] – [[Angela Lansbury]], English actress and singer (d. 2022)
*[[October 20]] – [[Tom Dowd]], American recording engineer/record producer (d. 2002)
*[[October 21]] – [[Virginia Zeani]], Romanian soprano (d. 2023)
*[[October 24]] – [[Luciano Berio]], Italian composer (d. 2003)
*[[October 29]] – [[Zoot Sims]], American jazz saxophonist (d. 1985)
*[[November 17]] – Sir [[Charles Mackerras]], conductor (d. 2010)
*[[November 22]] – [[Gunther Schuller]], composer, horn player and conductor (d. 2015)
*[[December 8]] – [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], entertainer (d. 1990)
*[[December 13]] – [[Dick Van Dyke]], American actor, singer, dancer and comedian
*[[December 19]] – [[Robert B. Sherman]], songwriter, brother of [[Richard M. Sherman]], son of songwriter [[Al Sherman]] (d. 2012)
*[[December 31]] – [[Daphne Oram]], composer (d. 2003)
*''date unknown'' – [[Julito Collazo]], percussionist (d. 2004)

==Deaths==
*[[January 6]] – [[Ferdinand Löwe]], Austrian conductor (b. 1865)
*[[January 8]] – [[Jimmy Palao]], African-American jazz multi-instrumentalist, leader of the Original Creole Band (born 1879)<ref>{{cite book |last=Gushee |first=Lawrence |title=Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-973233-3 |page=241}}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[Aristide Bruant]], French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1851)
*[[February 14]] – [[Giuseppe Donati]], inventor of the ocarina (b. 1836)
*[[February 17]] – [[Alwina Valleria]], operatic soprano (b. 1848)
*[[February 20]] – [[Marco Enrico Bossi]], organist and composer (b. 1861)
*[[February 21]] – [[Fernando de Lucia]], operatic tenor (b. 1860)
*[[February 24]] – [[John Palm]], Curaçao-born composer (b. 1885)
*[[March 4]] – [[Moritz Moszkowski]], Polish composer (b. 1854)
*[[March 22]] – [[Marie Brema]], operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1856)
*[[April 3]] – [[Jean de Reszke]], operatic tenor (b. 1850)
*[[April 22]] – [[André Caplet]], conductor and composer (b. 1878)
*[[April 25]] – [[George Stephănescu]], Romanian composer (b. 1843)
*[[May 12]] – [[Arthur Napoleão dos Santos]], Brazilian composer and pianist (b. 1843)
*[[May 25]] – [[Henry W. Petrie]], US songwriter (b. 1857)
*[[June 16]] – [[Emmett Hardy]], jazz musician (b. 1903)
*[[July 1]] – [[Erik Satie]], composer (b. 1866)
*[[July 9]] – [[Leverett DeVeber]], politician and singer (b. 1849)
*[[August 4]] – [[Charles W. Clark]], American baritone (b. 1865)
*[[August 11]] – [[Theodore Spiering]], violinist and conductor (b. 1871)
*[[August 16]] – [[Edna Hicks]], blues singer (b. 1895) (killed in fire)
*[[September 16]] – [[Leo Fall]], composer (b. 1873)
*[[December 9]] – [[Eugène Gigout]], composer and organist (b. 1844)
*[[December 13]] – [[Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim]], pianist and opera singer (b. 1845)
*[[December 19]] – [[José Ignacio Quintón]], Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881)
*[[December 27]] – [[Guido Menasci]], opera librettist (b. 1867)
*''date unknown'' – [[Hans Winderstein]], conductor and composer (b. 1859)

==References==
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